For this series, our Climate Change, International, Data, Photo, Video, and Design teams worked closely together to explore the harmful threat of climate change to human health around the world.Award-winning works judged How global warming has accelerated disease and death in Pakistanwhere Dangerous heat is on the risethe surprisingly dangerous connection between Schizophrenia and extreme heat, inequality How does heat stress occur in India? The heat makes you hungry How global warming is affecting Yemen spread of malaria Mozambique and fungi that eat people in the western United States.
This project required combining advanced analysis of climate and health data with field reporting to create an immersive narrative and interactive visuals. The basis for some of the stories was carbon plan, a nonprofit organization that performs analyzes of large climate datasets and makes them available to the public. Together, we have created one of the best and most accessible models that shows how many days of health-threatening heat a year people experience in approximately 15,500 cities, and how often they will experience it in the future. I built it. The team translated that analysis into a series of graphics and interactives to help people explore where they've been most affected and understand why. In India, second-hand satellite-based temperature and tree cover maps were used to send reporters, drones, and elderly people to areas identified as high-risk. We translated these findings into interactive graphics that blend drone footage and photography with modeled nearby buildings to help explain how heat physically moves through space and why it does so in certain ways. It showed how people face extreme heat and others don't.
For our article on the prevalence of malaria, we overlaid that data on a map of elevation to build three models that measure the length of the transmission season and the population at risk. In doing so, we identified where the disease may pose future risks to people with little or no immunity. And in our article on the spread of Valley fever in the American West, we analyze temperature changes and drought patterns separately to reveal what's driving the fungal spread, helping to put Coccidioides in a warmer future. researchers have deconstructed data showing how it can spread.
The team selected for this award included Nico Komenda, Annie Gowen, Shannon Osaka, Erin Patrick O'Connor, Simon Ducroquet, Hayley Haymond, Joshua Partlow, Veronica Penny, John Muiskens, Kevin Crowe, Carolyn Van Houten, Jahi Chikwendu, Rachel Chaisson, Oriana Chegwidden, Jeremy Freeman, Anant Gupta, Atul Rourke, Kareem Fahim, Saina Bashir, Ali Al. Mujahed, Lorenzo Tugnoli, Caitlin O'Hara, Adriana Zebrauskas.
Juliet Eilperin and Monica Ulmanu were the lead editors on this project. The project stars John Farrell, Jessica Koscielniak, Olivier Laurent, Stuart Leavenworth, Jesse Messner-Hage, Joe Moore, Anu Narayanswamy, Alain Cipress, Amanda Voisart, Jay Wang, Katie Zejima also served as editor. This project received additional support from the design department and copy desk.