Selected recent media coverage of our work

• January 2020. Featured scientist, Big Biology podcast. Diluting disease.
• March 2020. 'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19? The Guardian.·
• March 2020. Our Growing Food Demands Will Lead to More Corona-like Viruses. Inside Climate News.
• March 2020. Biodiversity, infectious diseases & coronavirus. Sojourner Truth radio show with Margaret Prescod. https://globaljusticeecology.org/new-earth-watch-with-dr-felicia-keesing-on-biodiversity-infectious-diseases-coronavirus/
• April 2020. Biodiversity loss and wildlife trade are making pandemics like COVID-19 more likely, experts say. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• April 2020. When confronting a pandemic, we must save nature to save ourselves. Center for American Progress.
• April 2020. A new virus could yet spread from animals to humans. Forbes. [Editor’s pick.]
• May 2020. Bard College professors are using NSF grant for COVID-19 forecasting models. WAMC.
• May 2020. Featured guest, Big Blue Marble podcast from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. https://bigbluemarble.earth/podcast/natures-backlash-episode-14/.
• June 2020. How humanity has unleashed a flood of zoonotic diseases by Ferris Jabr. Featured article in the New York Times Magazine.
• August 2020. Deadly diseases from wildlife thrive when nature is destroyed, study finds. The Guardian.
• August 2020. Disrupted habitats have more zoonotic disease hosts: study. The Scientist.
• August 2020. In cities and farms, disease-carrying animals thrive. Smithsonian Magazine.
• August 2020. Disease-bearing ticks thrive as climate change heats up US. Canada’s National Observer.
• August 2020. Running numbers or running from numbers. Inside Higher Ed.
• September 2020. Featured scientist, BBC’s Extinction: The Facts with David Attenborough on BBC.
• February 2021. In harm’s way. The National Wildlife Federation.
• March 2021. Featured scientist, BBC’s Extinction: The Facts with Sir David Attenborough on PBS.
• March 2021. Even blue states suppress student voters. The Nation.
• March 2021. How our abuse of nature makes pandemics like covid-19 more likely. New Scientist.
• April 2021. A diversity of wildlife is good for human health. National Science Foundation.
• April 2021. Climate scientists: Nature's destruction makes humans more vulnerable to disease, by Nathan Rott. National Public Radio.
• July 2021. Traded wild animals carry 75 per cent of diseases humans can catch, by Adam Vaughan. New Scientist.
• August 2021. The US report into COVID's origins is little use in averting another pandemic by Laura Spinney. The Guardian.
• April 2022. Tick spraying may not guard against Lyme disease, by John Dillon. WebMD.
• May 2022. Ticks with Felicia Keesing, a podcast interview with Margaret Roach. A Way to Garden.
• July 2022. Your lawn questions answered, by Margaret Roach. The New York Times.
• July 2022. The quest for a 'tick map', by Kat Eschner. Scientific American.
• July 2022. Expo ’90 Foundation announces 2022 International Cosmos Prize.
• June 2023. Scientific American. How to protect yourself from ticks and tick-borne diseases.
  
• May 2024. Washington Post. How climate change is raising the risks of another pandemic.
  
• Sept 2025. Washington Post. How a bat disease may have led to the death of 1,000 kids.