David Schechter

📣Journalists! Join us for our Climate on the Ballot virtual summit, featuring a variety of panels and interactive roundtable discussions for international, national and local journalists covering the 2024 US election. https://t.co/o0jG2tVDCf 🧵Learn more about the panels below https://t.co/4ujSPe4TAQ

National recommendations call for cooling heat stroke patients before transporting them to the hospital, but as @DavidSchechter found out, only 11 states require ambulance services to follow this life-saving protocol. https://t.co/8qmJbgmTYR

🥁 📣 We are THRILLED to announce the 2024 CCNow Journalism Award winners! 👀 this thread to see this year’s best of the best in climate journalism. We’re starting off strong with our esteemed Journalists of the Year... https://t.co/598qKUQitP

How hot is too hot for humans? Researchers at @penn_state have discovered that heat and humidity can be dangerous to our bodies at much lower temperatures than previously thought. @DavidSchechter has more on how experts say the heat is damaging our bodies. https://t.co/BrSmD9uaaH

👩🏽‍💻 Calling all local journos! Join us May 7 at 12pm ET for a webinar on effectively covering climate change for your local audiences. @DavidSchechter will moderate the discussion with panelists @HeyHelina and @sfkale. RSVP: https://t.co/zgecyVQ2wd https://t.co/VBsfoD16uJ

What a valuable and sobering @CBSNews story on the "elevator to extinction" for species experiencing #climatechange in ecological cul-de-sacs (some vertical, others horizontal, all hemmed in). Team: @DavidSchechter, @GraceMarie_35, @HaleyRushNews, @TWholf, @chancehorner. As https://t.co/5Nz2Ynprkk

To escape the heat, these lizards slowly migrated to higher, cooler elevations (aka sky islands). That worked for a while. But when the sky islands got too hot, they died. Moral of the story: adaptation has limits -- for lizards, and for humans. https://t.co/OCnGp9vPjQ

Just outside the town of Bisbee, Arizona, a sub-population of Yarrow’s spiny lizards has lived in the mountains for 3 million years. But rising temperatures caused by climate change may have pushed this group of lizards into extinction, a scientist told @DavidSchechter. https://t.co/DYw93LyTsn

Despite this lizard’s tiny size — it has a huge story to tell about climate change and the very future of the planet. @DavidSchechter shares how these unique lizards are getting forced out of their home in the Arizona mountains, tomorrow on CBS Mornings. https://t.co/gH1aNecwnG

📣 The 2024 CCNow Journalism Awards Call For Entries is open! The awards will honor excellent reporting on critical dimensions of the climate story. Work published or broadcast in 2023 anywhere in the world is eligible. Learn more + submit your work! https://t.co/HzQGywcSmN https://t.co/iP9WZVdOzP