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Love and fear of dying in the time of coronavirus

Sunday 19 April 2020

"I have long assumed that I would one day succumb to a lung infection.  A nearly fatal bout of tuberculosis when I was four left my lungs vulnerable to pathogens, whether bacterial or viral," writes Marlowe Hood, who covers health, science and environment for AFP in Paris.

"As I watched the coronavirus creep across the globe from ground zero in central China... I felt the target on my back grow bigger: male, 64 years old, overweight, prone to lung infection." 

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COP21: Less than meets the eye

Monday 21 December 2015

Following the COP21 climate change accord struck in Paris earlier this month, many journalists, analysts, activists and even negotiators embedded in the climate change saga were left wondering, writes AFP's environment and science reporter Marlowe Hood.

"Six years – more than 20 if one starts the clock with the Rio Earth Summit – of maddeningly Byzantine negotiations, moving sideways or in circles as often as forward, have finally yielded a universal climate accord.  But what has truly been achieved?

"A lot."

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L) in August, 2012 and through a haze of pollution (R) in March, 2014. (AFP / Bertrand Guay, Kenzo Tribouillard

Climate change: glass half-full or half-empty?

Tuesday 1 December 2015

"As a reporter covering climate change, one of the big questions – arguably THE big question – I grapple with is this: are we on the right track to prevent catastrophic global warming?" writes AFP environment and science correspondent Marlowe Hood. "Confronted recently with diametrically opposed answers, I took a deep dive to find out which one was right."

"The answer, I found out, depends on who you talk to."

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European hostages: mining the data

Friday 26 June 2015

"How many times have I heard this refrain since joining AFP nearly 20 years ago: ‘With millions of stories in our archives, we’re sitting on top of an information gold mine’," writes the journalist Marlowe Hood. "The European Hostage Project is a serious attempt to extract some of that buried treasure. A case study in data journalism, it uncovered patterns in the terrible traffic in hostages from Europe that up to now remained elusive if not invisible."

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