Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️

Climate reporter @azcentral 🌵 • PhD @UFSNRE • Past lives: 🐝 scientist, 🚲 racer • Past words: @DiscoverMag, @NatGeo, @ProPublica, @Orion_Magazine, @NOLAnews

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Grateful to have just been awarded 1st place for 2023 Environment Reporting from @AZPressClub for my narrative investigation into Arizona's climate + housing crises. Thx to @mit_esi for support & congrats to my @azcentral colleagues on the category sweep!
https://t.co/XwTJbo1kkL

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Wait...are they putting a paywall of sorts on the White House website? We now can't read executive orders without signing up for Trump's email list?! Has anyone else run into this?

[Dan Nowicki @dannowicki]

"Did climate change cause a toad to go extinct? A Flagstaff author explores the mystery." (via @beecycles) https://t.co/gyI5Yf7YHX

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

"Trail networks seem to bring joy even to people who never get out onto them. An insatiable appetite for stories of adventure & desire to imagine the possibility wild spaces hold may be as core to human nature as the shelter we’d left behind."
https://t.co/N9zLK9KCQn @beecycles

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Today, keeping up with my monthly series profiling Arizona #climate leaders, I have a story out about a man who found such fascination and species diversity on an overlooked, remote rim that he just had to give it a name: the Mogollon Highlands.
https://t.co/wrB5dCAMzT

[Jake Bolster @JakeBolster2]

Two new reports show how AI may be putting global and U.S. emissions targets out of reach. But some say data centers could “supercharge clean energy.” Learn more in my latest.

https://t.co/quV7OT9zbY

[Nick Bowlin @npbowlin]

Every oil state disposes of toxic wastewater underground. But in Oklahoma, it hasn't been staying there, creating large, ongoing pollution events known as "purges."

An investigation for @propublica and @readfrontier

https://t.co/aEFoFviQy7

[Deb Krol @Debkrol]

my latest #oakflat piece https://t.co/ZWbi1uuAYL

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

@sejorg @EJTodayNews @CoveringClimate @ClimatePower

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

I'm riding my mountain bike on the 850-mile Arizona Trail this fall to see and write about #climate impacts along the way. We're publishing weekly dispatches from the trail in The Arizona Republic | @azcentral as I go.

The first one just dropped:
https://t.co/re7gcX8llC

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

You can see more photos, videos and commentary on Instagram at: https://t.co/C28fUwAZGA

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

@AdamLMahoney Can’t wait

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Edit: That story was actually published two weeks ago, not last week. Time flies. But the point still stands.

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

On June 9, I filed a public records request w/ the AZ Dept of Health Services. I was promised a reply in 10 days...but got nothing.

Last week I published a story about how ADHS has fumbled their own data on heat-related hospital visits & won't share it.

Today I got this email.

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Here's my story about how the data ADHS collects from hospitals on heat-related emergency visits could be a lot more useful toward addressing the increasing health impacts of extreme heat than the department has bothered to make it: https://t.co/kmyGxK8wko

[Dan Nowicki @dannowicki]

"Hobbs made history with state heat plan. Is Arizona better prepared for climate change?" (via @beecycles) https://t.co/k41dISHR3B

[Stephanie Innes @stephanieinnes]

#Arizona's chief #heat officer hedges on #climate link, earns mixed reviews from experts, some call him 'underwhelming' #eugenelivar https://t.co/qyytEU1509 via @azcentral @beecycles

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Today we published the 2nd in extreme heat series, looking at Arizona's progress since statewide plan.

This time, it's all about whether Arizona's Chief Heat Officer has made a difference, or just made busy work for experts already leading heat responses: https://t.co/yrDgz1wmoC

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Big story out today launching a 3-part series I’ve been working on all year — looking at where Arizona’s extreme heat responses have improved since Gov Hobbs’ plan…and where they have not.

Pt. 1: Is Arizona doing enough with heat-related hospital data?👇🏼
https://t.co/kmyGxK949W

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Check back tomorrow for the next story in the series

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Big story out today launching a 3-part series I’ve been working on all year — looking at where Arizona’s extreme heat responses have improved since Gov Hobbs’ plan…and where they have not.

Pt. 1: Is Arizona doing enough with heat-related hospital data?👇🏼
https://t.co/kmyGxK949W

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

@azcentral @azcenvironment @sejorg @EJTodayNews @CoveringClimate @willhumble_az @uarizona @ASU @CityofPhoenixAZ @GovernorHobbs