Laurie Goering
@laurieclimate.bsky.social
Climate change journalist/editor (ex-Chicago Tribune/Thomson Reuters Foundation), storyteller, science geek, worried about extreme heat, find me in the woods
Extreme heat is bringing big rises in pre-eclampsia, stillbirths, premature births and other worries for pregnant women and their babies www.climateresilience.org/maternal-new... #extremeheat #health #maternalhealth #climate @lshtm.bsky.social
Extreme heat brings fast-rising risks for pregnant women and babies
Worsening extreme heat exposure globally is driving hikes in health threats from premature birth to pre-eclampsia
www.climateresilience.org
September 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Extreme heat is bringing big rises in pre-eclampsia, stillbirths, premature births and other worries for pregnant women and their babies www.climateresilience.org/maternal-new... #extremeheat #health #maternalhealth #climate @lshtm.bsky.social
Are you a journalist living in Southeast Asia who wants to know how to report more effectively on increasingly extreme heat? Here's your chance to join our training in Bangkok in October. Apply by Sept. 17! lnkd.in/eaDYuNbp
September 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Are you a journalist living in Southeast Asia who wants to know how to report more effectively on increasingly extreme heat? Here's your chance to join our training in Bangkok in October. Apply by Sept. 17! lnkd.in/eaDYuNbp
Here are some ideas about how to better portray heat - an invisible threat - in images: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...
June 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here are some ideas about how to better portray heat - an invisible threat - in images: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...
Here's how to change that - some guidelines for photographing extreme heat: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...
April 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Here's how to change that - some guidelines for photographing extreme heat: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...
A lovely story about how rethinking a village's water - and rights to it - can have huge benefits for women, especially those facing extreme heat and drought. Thanks to co-publishers The Migration Story!
#extremeheat #water#drought #India #solutions #women
www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real...
#extremeheat #water#drought #India #solutions #women
www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real...
Shared work, shared water: Water cooperation eases extreme heat, drought risk for Indian women
Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat
www.climateresilience.org
April 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A lovely story about how rethinking a village's water - and rights to it - can have huge benefits for women, especially those facing extreme heat and drought. Thanks to co-publishers The Migration Story!
#extremeheat #water#drought #India #solutions #women
www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real...
#extremeheat #water#drought #India #solutions #women
www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real...
Want to improve communication about climate change and health issues? There's a job open at the @wmo-global.bsky.social that might suit you... erecruit.wmo.int/public/hrd-c... #health #climatechange #extremeheat
WMO
Vacancies at WMO - Welcome to WMO
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April 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Want to improve communication about climate change and health issues? There's a job open at the @wmo-global.bsky.social that might suit you... erecruit.wmo.int/public/hrd-c... #health #climatechange #extremeheat
Interesting and well presented tool on climate disinformation
Introducing Hot Air, a publicly-available interactive database and visualisation tool highlighting the volume of online misinformation surrounding climate change.
Developed in partnership with C3DS University of Exeter and supported by Octopus Energy.
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Developed in partnership with C3DS University of Exeter and supported by Octopus Energy.
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torto.se/4j0NNY4
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Interesting and well presented tool on climate disinformation
Too hot in Australia and need some personalised advice on how to cope? Here's an app for you
The HeatWatch tool, developed by the Heat and Health Research Centre at University of Sydney, offers:
🔥 Personalised profiles to estimate individual heat stress risk
🔥 Hourly forecasts of heat health
🔥 Evidence-based advice on effective and ineffective cooling strategies
heatwatch.sydney.edu.au
🔥 Personalised profiles to estimate individual heat stress risk
🔥 Hourly forecasts of heat health
🔥 Evidence-based advice on effective and ineffective cooling strategies
heatwatch.sydney.edu.au
HeatWatch
The HeatWatch web tool allows you to quickly determine the risk of heath stress and dehydration
heatwatch.sydney.edu.au
March 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Too hot in Australia and need some personalised advice on how to cope? Here's an app for you
Way too much of what we think we know about managing extreme heat is wrong. Here's a lab setting some things straight @heathealth.info #extremeheat
Solutions-oriented Sydney heat lab tests ‘the limits of human survival’
At a University of Sydney lab, researchers are testing the limits of human comfort and survivability in current and future extreme heat
www.climateresilience.org
March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Way too much of what we think we know about managing extreme heat is wrong. Here's a lab setting some things straight @heathealth.info #extremeheat
Does ULEZ work? Have a look at the air quality improvements by borough
Since the expansion of ULEZ across London, boroughs in outer London have seen some of the biggest benefits in air quality.
See how outer London got greener:
See how outer London got greener:
Sadiq's Londonwide Ulez: which boroughs saw the biggest falls in pollution?
Transport for London publishes data for how pollution levels have been affected by Ulez expansion
www.standard.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Does ULEZ work? Have a look at the air quality improvements by borough
Planning a trip to your favorite U.S. national park this year? Good luck if you need the bathroom, medical help, a place to stay there or anything else. Turns out federal employees are useful
As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...
'There is no one left': Custer Gallatin National Forest workers reeling from job losses
The cuts weren’t isolated. Across the seven ranger districts that comprise the Custer Gallatin National Forest, Knight said she has heard of at least 32 terminations as of Monday.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Planning a trip to your favorite U.S. national park this year? Good luck if you need the bathroom, medical help, a place to stay there or anything else. Turns out federal employees are useful
It was fantastic being in Freetown for the launch of the city’s pioneering heat action plan and seeing parts of it already at work - from Congo market to Ojuku’s mangroves - alongside Yvonne Ali-Sawyerr and Eugenia Kargbo
@kbmcleod.bsky.social #Africa #extremeheat #women
@kbmcleod.bsky.social #Africa #extremeheat #women
February 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It was fantastic being in Freetown for the launch of the city’s pioneering heat action plan and seeing parts of it already at work - from Congo market to Ojuku’s mangroves - alongside Yvonne Ali-Sawyerr and Eugenia Kargbo
@kbmcleod.bsky.social #Africa #extremeheat #women
@kbmcleod.bsky.social #Africa #extremeheat #women
What a pleasure training a really smart group of West African journalists today on fast-worsening heat risks - and what can be done about them #extremeheat #resilience
February 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
What a pleasure training a really smart group of West African journalists today on fast-worsening heat risks - and what can be done about them #extremeheat #resilience
The first African Urban Heat Summit happens this week in Freetown - looking forward to being part of it
#extremeheat #Africa
#extremeheat #Africa
February 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The first African Urban Heat Summit happens this week in Freetown - looking forward to being part of it
#extremeheat #Africa
#extremeheat #Africa
“The heat is too extreme now, it suffocates us. We cannot sell in the markets without shelter.”
Across Africa, extreme heat is growing increasingly deadly. The good news? Freetown this week becomes the first African city to launch a formal plan to deal with that threat
#Africa #extremeheat #women
Across Africa, extreme heat is growing increasingly deadly. The good news? Freetown this week becomes the first African city to launch a formal plan to deal with that threat
#Africa #extremeheat #women
As Freetown broils, a pioneering African heat plan takes shape
Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat
www.climateresilience.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
“The heat is too extreme now, it suffocates us. We cannot sell in the markets without shelter.”
Across Africa, extreme heat is growing increasingly deadly. The good news? Freetown this week becomes the first African city to launch a formal plan to deal with that threat
#Africa #extremeheat #women
Across Africa, extreme heat is growing increasingly deadly. The good news? Freetown this week becomes the first African city to launch a formal plan to deal with that threat
#Africa #extremeheat #women
How much demand is there to better understand growing extreme heat risk? Our upcoming training to help journalists better report on it had 683 applicants
#extremeheat #journalism #WestAfrica
#extremeheat #journalism #WestAfrica
Extreme Heat Reporting Training
Join Climate Resilience for All for a three-day in-person training course in Accra, Ghana on February 10-12, 2025, designed to improve your reporting on the impacts of extreme heat, giving you new sou...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
How much demand is there to better understand growing extreme heat risk? Our upcoming training to help journalists better report on it had 683 applicants
#extremeheat #journalism #WestAfrica
#extremeheat #journalism #WestAfrica
Extreme heat is making life much harder for Thailand's outdoor workers
"I was almost blacking out many times," admitted one woman who operates an open-air roadside kitchen in Bangkok, where temperatures are expected to soar again in 2025
#extremeheat #Thailand @dannymarks.bsky.social
"I was almost blacking out many times," admitted one woman who operates an open-air roadside kitchen in Bangkok, where temperatures are expected to soar again in 2025
#extremeheat #Thailand @dannymarks.bsky.social
‘Overwhelming’ heat a struggle for Bangkok’s outdoor workers
Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat
www.climateresilience.org
January 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Extreme heat is making life much harder for Thailand's outdoor workers
"I was almost blacking out many times," admitted one woman who operates an open-air roadside kitchen in Bangkok, where temperatures are expected to soar again in 2025
#extremeheat #Thailand @dannymarks.bsky.social
"I was almost blacking out many times," admitted one woman who operates an open-air roadside kitchen in Bangkok, where temperatures are expected to soar again in 2025
#extremeheat #Thailand @dannymarks.bsky.social
Are you an English-speaking West African journalist looking to improve your reporting on climate change-driven extreme heat? Apply to join Climate Resilience for All's first in-person training in Ghana #extremeheat #journalism
Extreme Heat Reporting Training
Join Climate Resilience for All for a three-day in-person training course in Accra, Ghana on February 10-12, 2025, designed to improve your reporting on the impacts of extreme heat, giving you new sou...
docs.google.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Are you an English-speaking West African journalist looking to improve your reporting on climate change-driven extreme heat? Apply to join Climate Resilience for All's first in-person training in Ghana #extremeheat #journalism
This is such a useful piece. As the climate and the world grow more uncertain, it's useful to think ahead and prepare for the unexpected, whether that's a solar panel or two to make your own power, a bit of stored food and water, or just getting to know the neighbours
Storm Darragh showed me how unprepared my family – and Britain – are for disaster | Gaby Hinsliff
After just 12 hours without power, we were cold, isolated and facing the fact that everyday life is far more precarious than it seems, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:05 PM
This is such a useful piece. As the climate and the world grow more uncertain, it's useful to think ahead and prepare for the unexpected, whether that's a solar panel or two to make your own power, a bit of stored food and water, or just getting to know the neighbours
Guess what? We didn't pass 1.5C in 2024. We're passing 1.6C
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @theguardian.com #climate
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @theguardian.com #climate
Climate crisis deepens with 2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record
Average global temperature in November was 1.62C above preindustrial levels, bringing average for the year to 1.60C
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Guess what? We didn't pass 1.5C in 2024. We're passing 1.6C
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @theguardian.com #climate
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @theguardian.com #climate
Could working-age adults be at higher risk of extreme heat than previously thought? www.climateresilience.org/mexican-heat...
#extremeheat #Mexico @columbiaclimate.bsky.social
#extremeheat #Mexico @columbiaclimate.bsky.social
Mexico study finds unexpectedly high heat risk for working-age adults
Could working-age adults be at higher risk of extreme heat than previously thought?
www.climateresilience.org
December 7, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Could working-age adults be at higher risk of extreme heat than previously thought? www.climateresilience.org/mexican-heat...
#extremeheat #Mexico @columbiaclimate.bsky.social
#extremeheat #Mexico @columbiaclimate.bsky.social
Here's some guidance to help get more accurate heat images into the media: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...
December 3, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Here's some guidance to help get more accurate heat images into the media: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...
The clever starter packs alone make BlueSky a pleasure
This one better take off
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December 3, 2024 at 12:23 PM
The clever starter packs alone make BlueSky a pleasure
As Australian summers get ever hotter and heat becomes more dangerous, it's time to rethink how we portray it visually in the news media and move away from people frolicking at the beach. Here's some guidance on how to do that! Please share...
#Australia #heatwave #extremeheat
#Australia #heatwave #extremeheat
9 Guidelines for Effective Extreme Heat Visuals
www.climateresilience.org
November 28, 2024 at 6:43 PM
As Australian summers get ever hotter and heat becomes more dangerous, it's time to rethink how we portray it visually in the news media and move away from people frolicking at the beach. Here's some guidance on how to do that! Please share...
#Australia #heatwave #extremeheat
#Australia #heatwave #extremeheat