https://www.melissabailey.net/photos daily 0.75 2022-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/dab75f4d-1615-410f-85b1-aec33a0f89f0/Copper-mine-02.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/24b8fdef-4ec1-4884-b843-e110fb8084b5/Copper-mine-017.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/bf2d976f-09fd-4c8d-9fb6-6deabb84cf97/Copper-mine-05.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1879e559-6f65-4991-a20c-d4b62a42ac72/Copper-mine-09.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/d157c1c3-2c39-4993-bce2-f2c1a148f4c7/SLV_Bailey-25.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/c1c433d7-77e9-4e7b-a913-00a9f663c3e9/2022_03_08_Buchmans-8_small.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1644340533106-1YLSBC9SGVN0Q9LK40EV/DSC_3311.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/cb91c746-6d48-4147-979a-878b37179203/SLV_Bailey-30.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/34a807f5-215b-48d8-8e7a-1ebaeaacd6c7/baileyEmbark-2.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1644340533128-JOCMW7FIX2UT7KCD5MP2/dawson-5083.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/8685a6d0-498a-4755-baa6-0510eb250402/2022_02_07_bailey_Q.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1644340533071-D6I51VE1671YSW8QEACO/valentinamacriDSC_8687.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1644340533117-VHI6A4T2Q1N5UTF38WL5/firemanIshmaelCruzboot12.12.07.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1644340533084-5EPC046E2UIBU3RMTC7N/rembertDSC_9256.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/6b7b0822-d97a-45c4-9d11-d338ee906596/AnnaVSmith_DSC_9514.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1644340533041-JH4HO3LL676XK5WRKEKW/ballethavenDSC_0258.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1644340533153-QKAJZBII2F1DFMC8ERO7/RIO_Bailey_20160723_080131-1600x900.jpeg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1644340533095-T09ARDZMPBCH9NWCNY28/DSC_0017.jpg Photography https://www.melissabailey.net/about daily 1.0 2024-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1644340539425-W1I78274SIHX0Q948JQ3/image-asset.jpeg About - MELISSA BAILEY Melissa is a freelance writer and photographer based in Colorado, focusing on climate change and health. She was a 2022 Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder and a 2015 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard. She has worked as a journalist for 20 years, including at STAT, Kaiser Health News and the New Haven Independent. Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, Time Magazine, KFF Health News and other outlets. Her photography appears in The Washington Post, CNN, High Country News, Inside Climate News, Chalkbeat, the New Haven Independent, and The Boston Globe. https://www.melissabailey.net/contact daily 0.75 2022-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1649886782535-PJBRCRELAMKTRN66ZGO2/recife.jpg Contact - Make it stand out Lianne Milton Photo https://www.melissabailey.net/writing daily 0.75 2026-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1090b6d9-72c3-4995-9b43-6f3dfd02aec7/Copper-mine-05.jpg Writing - Make it stand out Trump’s Fast-Tracked Deal for a Copper Mine Heightens Existential Fight for Apache OAK FLAT, Ariz. — Carrying eagle feathers and chanting prayers, Western Apache runners hit the road on a roughly 80-mile journey this month to try to save their sacred land from being fast-tracked by President Donald Trump into a copper mine. - KFF Health News/ CBS News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648478872760-FJ9A37DCNTAZECODQXIG/paul-andrews1.jpg Writing Lethal Plans: When Seniors Turn To Suicide In Long-Term Care A six-month investigation finds that older Americans are quietly killing themselves in nursing homes, assisted living centers and adult care homes. - KFF Health News/ PBS NewsHour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648483495110-QJRS873NSU3FV32QFZZ1/palliative_transport.Kayana.jpg Writing - Make it stand out A Final Comfort: Palliative Transport Brings Dying Children Home Anne Brescia sat beside her only child, Anthony, as he lay unconscious in a hospital bed at age 16. Just a few months before, he was competing in a swim meet; now cancer was destroying his brain. Brescia couldn’t save her son. But she was determined to bring him home. -The Washington Post/ Kaiser Health News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648484609953-TXOL1XZJAYNIZKBCWJ0T/ambulance.billing.jpg Writing - Make it stand out Taken For A Ride? Ambulances Stick Patients With Surprise Bills Consumer protections against surprise medical bills largely ignore ground ambulance rides, which can leave patients stuck with hundreds or thousands of dollars in bills, with few options for recourse, finds a Kaiser Health News review of 350 consumer complaints in 32 states. - The Washington Post/ Kaiser Health News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/f8ec2511-432b-440f-bbc7-122df5e79379/SLV_Bailey-23.jpg Writing - Make it stand out As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Rises When John Mestas’ ancestors moved to Colorado over 100 years ago to raise sheep in the San Luis Valley, they “hit paradise,” he said. Now decades of climate change-driven drought, combined with the overpumping of aquifers, is making the valley desperately dry — and appears to be intensifying the levels of heavy metals in drinking water. - KFF Health News/ NPR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648485480555-TJA9D8701PZTZNGKJSK2/hospital.falls.jpg Writing - Make it stand out Overzealous in preventing falls, hospitals are producing an ‘epidemic of immobility’ in elderly patients Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days confined to a hospital bed, allowed to get up only to use a bedside commode. - The Washington Post/ Kaiser Health News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648479287358-381KFM4XHMZWVT8G70DS/West-Nile-Goldilocks-art.jpg Writing - Make it stand out Why Climate Change May Bring More West Nile Virus To The U.S. As climate change brings more drought and pushes temperatures toward what is termed the “Goldilocks zone” for mosquitoes—not too hot, not too cold—scientists expect West Nile virus transmission to increase across the country. - Science Friday/ Kaiser Health News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/534ab6f5-8090-4cb5-af93-b6339c235c45/ecmo_GettyImages-998260308.webp Writing - Make it stand out Miracle Machine Makes Heroic Rescues — And Leaves Patients In Limbo For each adult saved by this machine — dubbed ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — another adult hooked up to the equipment dies in the hospital. For those patients, the intervention is a very expensive, labor-intensive and unsuccessful effort to cheat death. - Kaiser Health News/ USA TODAY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648477923833-3KLOF8C06OWN9M4N511E/20160725zika_recife0018-1600x1067.jpeg Writing - Make it stand out The Unrelenting Struggle Of Raising Brazil’s Zika Babies RECIFE, BRAZIL — Brazil is entering a new phase of the Zika epidemic, in which families and doctors are discovering the long-term medical complications that baby Duda and the 1,748 other infants like her nationwide will confront. - STAT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648477386284-I5B5OPN28WRLOI7F99ZJ/Bruce_Davis_2_1350.jpg Writing When Covid Deaths Aren’t Counted, Families Pay the Price Interviews with families across the U.S. shed light on reasons covid deaths are being undercounted — and the consequences loved ones have endured. - The Guardian/ Kaiser Health News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648484878126-2EPRE6DM6FKKO6LE8086/HPHWinter22_GRIEF_ALTAR_2-1.jpeg Writing - Make it stand out A Zen priest–scientist takes on climate anxiety Extreme weather and alarming scientific reports are prompting more people to experience climate grief—feelings of loss, depression, or anxiety about climate change. Kritee, a Zen priest and climate scientist, says collective grief circles can fill in gaps in our overtaxed mental health system. - Harvard Public Health Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648485193735-7L7DHN02I4S3YAGI63Q9/Climate_change_1350-1.jpg Writing - Make it stand out How Climate Change Is Putting Doctors In The Hot Seat A 4-year-old girl was rushed to the emergency room three times in one week for asthma attacks. An elderly man, who’d been holed up in a top-floor apartment with no air conditioning during a heat wave, showed up at a hospital with a temperature of 106 degrees. … These patients reflect the subtler ways that climate change is showing up in the exam room. - Kaiser Health News/ Gatehouse Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648479059015-RMI1EED1MNG1HY86485G/hospice-hero.jpeg Writing - Make it stand out Hospice Patients Abandoned At Death’s Door A six-month investigation, involving 20,000 government inspection records, reveals that the hospice care that people expect — and sign up for — sometimes disappears when they need it most. Families across the country have called for help in times of crisis and been met with delays, no-shows and unanswered calls. - KFF Health News/ TIME Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648477690673-PPIOCF64WGOMNW5K1CNS/dee-hill-revolver_1350.jpg Writing - Make it stand out Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns A four-month investigation uncovered over 100 cases across the U.S. in which people with dementia used guns to kill or injure themselves or others. We shed new light on an aspect of guns and public health that is rarely discussed. - Kaiser Health News/ PBS NewsHour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/1648484251970-AUBL2JLAZR6WUDCBYI27/iStock-509483224.jpeg Writing - Make it stand out Dying at home in pain doesn’t keep relatives from stealing the pills As more people die at home on hospice, some of the addictive drugs they are prescribed are ending up in the wrong hands. A Kaiser Health News review of government inspection records sheds light on what can go wrong. - The Washington Post/ Kaiser Health News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202a533ae6e987462db5528/92f506fa-40ac-46aa-9f57-6866c85bca7d/chastityandsolanlly.webp Writing - Make it stand out They Made It NEW HAVEN, CT — Can two Latina city kids from one of the state’s lowest-performing high schools make it alongside their wealthy white peers at a private university in Fairfield? 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