Press coverage
2024
Hazardous heat exposure among incarcerated people in the United States
- Prisoners in Texas and Florida face biggest risk of increasingly deadly heat, The Guardian, March 2024
- US Senator Ed Markey tweet about paper, X/Twitter, March 2024
- Op-ed: We are undercounting heat-related deaths in the US, Environmental Health News, January 2024
- Data Science Summit Spotlights the Quantitative Cutting-Edge, Columbia Public Health, January 2024
2023
COP28
- Public Health Professor Shares Audio Diary from Climate Conference, Columbia Public Health, February 2024
- An audio diary from the COP28 climate conference, Part 1, Environmental Health News, December 2023
- An audio diary from the COP28 climate conference, Part 2, Environmental Health News, December 2023
- Global Climate Summit Puts Health on the Agenda, Columbia Public Health, November 2023
- The Future Earth: Human-led Solutions for Our Next Three Decades, Science Friday, NPR, October 2023
- Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren’t there laws to protect them?, Grist, October 2023
- ‘You should be able to have a water break’: US workers fight for extreme-heat rules, The Guardian, October 2023
Watch this space many more reports to be added here soon
- Global Heat Health Digest , Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN), October 2023
- Research shows a correlation between climate change and alcohol use (Live Radio Interview), KCBS Radio (San Francisco), September 2023
- How climate change is fueling alcohol-related hospitalizations, Grist, September 2023
- Why the United States undercounts climate-driven deaths, Grist, September 2023
- How Extreme Heat, Smoke, and Flooding Threaten Our Health, Columbia Public Health, August 2023
- Robbie Parks on why hurricanes are getting deadlier, Environmental Health News, September 2023
- Live TV Interview, Weather Channel, September 2023
- Tropical storms killing more Americans as climate crisis deepens, study finds, The Guardian, August 2023
- U.S. hurricane deaths concentrated in vulnerable counties, research finds, NBC News, August 2023
- New study finds far more hurricane-related deaths in US, especially among poor and vulnerable, AP News, August 2023
- Hurricanes have become deadlier in recent decades, study shows, The Washington Post, August 2023
- Hurricanes cause vast majority of storm deaths in vulnerable communities, NPR WNYC, August 2023
- Heat Singes the Mind, Not Just the Body, The New York Times, August 2023
- Is That Water Too Polluted to Swim in?, The New York Times, July 2023
- Are Legally Acceptable Levels of Pollution Harming Children’s Brain Development?, Inside Climate News, June 2023
- Global Health Impacts of Tropical Cyclones, NIEHS Global Environmental Health Podcasts, June 2023
- Return of killer smog? Experts warn of potentially deadly NYC haze, Politico, June 2023
- Environmental justice researchers on what it means to be biracial, Environmental Health News, November 2023
- Op-ed: Mourning family and climate change in the age of loss and damage, Environmental Health News, March 2023
- Op-ed: Atravesar duelos familiares y por el cambio climático en la era de las pérdidas y los daños, Environmental Health News, March 2023
- LISTEN: Robbie Parks on climate justice and mental health, Environmental Health News, March 2023
2022
Invited Perspective: Uncovering the Hidden Burden of Tropical Cyclones on Public Health Locally and Worldwide
- Editors' Choice, Environmental Health Perspectives, March 2023
- COP27: Delegates From the Columbia Climate School Share Their Plans and Hopes, State of the Planet, November 2022
- 2022 Papers of the year, NIEHS Environmental Factor, January 2023
- Extreme Weather Effects, Magazine of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, January 2023
- Ian was one of the most lethal hurricanes in decades. Many of the deaths were preventable, NBC News, November 2022
- After hurricanes, program aims to help alleviate stress, abc News (AP syndicated), November 2022
- This Florida woman survived her 'biggest mistake' in Hurricane Ian. Why experts say many others didn't, USA Today, October 2022
- New NYC storm surge map shows how climate change threatens affordable housing, upscale waterfront, Gothamist, July 2022
- Tropical cyclones linked to rise in U.S. deaths, NIEHS papers of the month, May 2022
- 'Hidden burden': Hurricanes keep killing people long after landfall, study suggests, USA Today, March 2022
- Hurricanes linked to 33 percent surge in death rates after storms, The Hill, March 2022
- We might be undercounting deaths associated with hurricanes, according to this new research, WWNO 89.9 New Orleans Public Radio, March 2022
- The rise in extreme heat is taking a toll on our well-being. It's about to get worse, CNN, August 2022
- How Can We Make Heat Waves Less Deadly?, State of the Planet, June 2022
- As Heat and Utility Bills Rise, Expensive Electricity Becomes Health Risk, The City, June 2022
- Study: Warming temperatures are eroding our ability to sleep, Grist, May 2022
- 8 Ways NYC Can Help Vulnerable Communities Survive Summer Heat, State of the Planet, September 2021
- Public Green Spaces: Racism, Heat, and Barriers to Access, WE ACT online blog, August 2020
- Environmental Racism and COVID-19 Are a Deadly Combination, Bitch Media, August 2020
- Mention of results from England and Wales COVID-19 paper in UK parliament, UK Parliament, June 2020
- Aural Vignettes to Help Keep Me Together, KnowScience , April 2020
- Pod of the Planet: Ep.5 Look After Yourself, Pod of the Planet, April 2020
- Air pollution plummeting worldwide, Accuweather, April 2020
2021
Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults, Nature Communications
- 2021 Papers of the year, NIEHS Environmental Factor, January 2022
- Research Spotlight, NIEHS Global Environmental Health Newsletter, June 2021
- Hospitalization following extreme weather, opportunities for resilience, NIEHS papers of the month, May 2021
- Tropical Cyclones Linked to Rise in Hospitalizations of Older Adults, State of the Planet, March 2021
2020
Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries, Nature Medicine- UK, Italy, Spain had high 'excess deaths' in first pandemic wave, study finds, Reuters, October 2020
- Study: Health systems, govt responses linked to virus tolls, Associated Press, October 2020
- Study finds health systems, government responses linked to virus tolls, PBS, October 2020
- Study: Health systems, govt responses linked to virus tolls, Washington Post, October 2020
- Covid-19: England and Wales among highest per capita death tolls, The Guardian, October 2020
- England & Wales had most excess deaths in Europe’s covid-19 first wave, New Scientist, October 2020
- Men and women equally at risk from coronavirus, study finds, The Times, October 2020
- Live TV discussion of results with Kay Burley, Sky News, October 2020
- Study: Early lockdowns prevented additional COVID-19 deaths in multiple countries, The Hill, October 2020
- Coronavirus ‘excess deaths’: why England and Wales have been hardest hit in Europe – new study, The Conversation, October 2020
- Spain, England and Wales top the list for coronavirus deaths in new study, Politico, October 2020
- England and Wales had SECOND worst excess death toll in Europe during first wave of Covid-19 with a 37% rise in all-cause fatalities behind only Spain on 38%, Daily Mail, October 2020
- COVID-19 : la France au 8ème rang parmi 21 pays industrialisés en termes de bilan de mortalité, INED, October 2020
- España, el país europeo con mayor exceso de muertes durante la primera ola de la pandemia, Agencia Sinc, October 2020
- ELa pandemia causó exceso de mortalidad de 20 % en 21 países, El Tiempo, October 2020
- Climate Changes Temps and Deaths, Public Health Post, April 2020
- Climate crisis likely to increase violent deaths of young people - report, The Guardian, January 2020
- Injuries and Deaths Could Rise with Climate Change in the U.S., a New Study Finds, TIME, January 2020
- Climate-Change Related Injuries Will Kill Thousands in the US, New Scientist, January 2020
- Climate Change Could Lead to More Injuries and Deaths, The Verge, January 2020
- Climate change could kill thousands of Americans each year, Daily Mail, January 2020
- Rising temps could cause as many as 2,100 fatal injuries per year, Breitbart, January 2020
- How climate change could change the way we die, Anthropocene, January 2020
- Hotter temperatures will mean more deaths from injury, The Conversation, January 2020
- Rising temperatures could increase injury deaths by 2,000 a year: study, Smart Cities Dive, January 2020
- Climate Change May Translate Into More Fatal Injuries, HealthDay, January 2020
- Warmer temperatures linked to increase in US injury deaths, study says, CNN, January 2020
- The Heat is On: rise in violence as planet warms, Daily Star, January 2020
- Climate on the brain: climate breakdown and mental health, The Compassionate Conversationist, March 2020
Rising temperatures and heat deaths
- Climate casualties rising with temperatures, The Center for Public Integrity, June 2020
2018
Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) interview
2015
VICE Magazine print issue
- Pet Hates: Is your cat costing the Earth?, June 2015
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation live interivew on The Current, slightly misunderstanding what I meant in the article but that's OK, June 2015