Author Archives: Bridget Hickey

Bridget Hickey is a reporting fellow for Columbia Journalism Investigations, an investigative reporting unit at the Columbia Journalism School.
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Climate change is killing Americans. Health departments aren’t equipped to respond

by Dean Russell, Elisabeth Gawthrop, Veronica Penney, Ali Raj and Bridget Hickey

This investigation was conducted by Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Center for Public Integrity and co-published in partnership with The Guardian. PHOENIX — Charlie Rhodes lived alone on a tree-sparse street with sunburned lawns just outside this Arizona city. At 61, the Army veteran’s main connection to the world was Facebook; often, he posted several times […]