Rebecca Hersher

“They say it's expensive to be poor. Well, it's expensive to experience a natural disaster.” npr.org/2024/07/31/nx-… By: @rhersher via @npr

MY LATEST: Texas prisons officials insist no inmates have died from extreme heat behind bars for more than a decade. But we got autopsies that show the heat was a possible (or likely) contributing factor to in least three deaths just last year. kut.org/crime-justice/… #txlege

Hurricane Beryl has achieved the following: – Earliest Category 4 on record in Atlantic – Earliest Category 5 on record in Atlantic – Fastest intensification before September in Atlantic – Southernmost Category 4 on record The fingerprint of #climate change is a solid one.

I'm beyond excited to join the team at @WWNO and @WRKF as a coastal reporter! Send tips to eva@wrkf.org

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce as figures in the new U.S. National Climate Assessment report, a thread

Our NPR investigation found thousands of veterans and servicemembers with VA loans are facing foreclosure through no fault of their own. The VA could fix this. npr.org/2023/11/11/121…

Could not be prouder: the amazing NPR climate and data visuals team that did our project "Beyond the Poles", about the distant impacts of melting ice, has won the AAAS Gold Award for science journalism 1/n: sjawards.aaas.org/news/2023-aaas…

Congratulations to “Science Reporting – Large Outlet” Gold Award winning @NPR team @lesommer, @ryanjamescliff, @rhersher, @connjie and @DanielPWWood. brnw.ch/21wEiMK

Very worth reading if you care about or work in public media

How gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations. My latest for @NPR with editor @neelaeast and documents/research from @rebecca_John1 at CIC. npr.org/2023/10/17/118…

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Rachel Carson Environment Book category of the 2023 #SEJAwards: conta.cc/3RIbrOf. Congratulations, winners! Stay tuned next week for the Outstanding Explanatory Reporting category.

This year’s insane heat has coincided with (perhaps driven?) a bit of a wedge between two leading “climate urgency science narratives”… 🧵

This is from the Mendenhall River Floods in Alaska. This happened over a span of six hours. 😧 Can you imagine watching that happen to your home knowing there’s nothing that can save it?

@AnnaCanny28 Now imagine you live downstream from any of the other, much less-studied, glaciers all over the world. Terrifying! @ryanjamescliff and I reported on this from Nepal last year. apps.npr.org/arctic-ice-mel… (Juneau makes an appearance as well)

But it still caught the forecasters by surprise. These details from @AnnaCanny28 are pretty shocking. “There is no comparison,” said meteorologist Nicole Ferrin, with the National Weather Service in Juneau. “We’re two feet over our last record.”

"Juneau’s glacial outburst floods have happened every year since 2011, but this year was the worst by far." @AnnaCanny28 ktoo.org/2023/08/05/cit…

@soundschoolpod @ajmacadam @NPR awwww guys stop it😊

@ajmacadam @rhersher @NPR Get in line.

Well, THAT was a great interview! Just talked to @rhersher about her #climatechange reporting at @NPR. Not sure when it will drop on Sound School, so you'll just have to keep downloading and listening.