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Virginia Gewin
Science journalist
Virginia Gewin is a science journalist who writes about climate change and agriculture for outlets including Nature, Popular Science, Discover, Bloomberg, and Civil Eats. As a 2021 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow, she reported on dust in the increasingly arid West. Her 2016 Alicia Patterson fellowship focused on efforts to bolster seed saving around the world. She has also received reporting awards from the European Geosciences Union, Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources, and the Society for Environmental Journalists. Her 2020 story “Raising Nature on Florida Ranchlands” won the Best of the Northwest Science Journalism award from the Northwest Science Writers Association. Her California Health Equity Project aims to highlight how toxic dust from the Salton Sea impacts the health of migrant farmworker families working in Imperial and Coachella valleys.
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Despite some efforts to address environmental issues, the public health concerns of communities living near California's Salton Sea have been largely overlooked.
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Not only is the air quality decreasing, but the number of extreme heat events is on the rise. What will this mean for the health of nearby communities?