Laurie Goering

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

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

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...

Shared work, shared water: Water cooperation eases extreme heat, drought risk for Indian women Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat

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
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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

Too hot in Australia and need some personalised advice on how to cope? Here's an app for you

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

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

As someone who has been vaccinated for rabies, anthrax and smallpox, as well as the usual suspects, I couldn't agree more!

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

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

As Freetown broils, a pioneering African heat plan takes shape Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat

“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

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...

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

‘Overwhelming’ heat a struggle for Bangkok’s outdoor workers Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Guess what? We didn't pass 1.5C in 2024. We're passing 1.6C

@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @theguardian.com #climate

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?

Could working-age adults be at higher risk of extreme heat than previously thought? www.climateresilience.org/mexican-heat...

#extremeheat #Mexico @columbiaclimate.bsky.social

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

9 Guidelines for Effective Extreme Heat Visuals

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

Thank you!! Getting going here....

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

Thanks, @edhawkins.org! Too much red - and brown! - at the end of that London progression

Would you consider adding me to your list, Kelly?

"In what ways does (Phoenix) continue a tradition of marketing the sun and heat, even once they have become unbearable? How can it continue, in a sense, to 'sell'?"
A fantastic hugely visual and readable look at a baking city
#extremeheat #climatechange #Phoenix