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Chad Small is the 2025 AAAS Mass Media fellow with Inside Climate News. He is a third-year PhD student in Atmospheric and Climate Science at the University of Washington. Chad currently researches how information about tropical phenomena can improve our understanding of extreme rainfall and flooding events in both tropical regions and midlatitude regions, like the United States. Originally from New York City, he has also written as a freelance journalist with work appearing in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Grist, Imagine5, Next City and elsewhere. Most recently, Chad has been the Climate Change Editorial Fellow at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

A fishing vendor uses an umbrella to protect herself from the midday sun during a heat wave in St. Louis, Senegal. Credit: Lucia Weiß/picture alliance via Getty Images

Emissions are Sparking Increases in African Heat Waves in Unexpected Ways, New Study Finds

By Chad Small

A health worker wears protective gear as they dispose of biohazard waste from a Nipah virus isolation center at a government hospital in India’s southern state of Kerala on Sept. 16, 2023. Credit: AFP via Getty Images

Climate Change Likely to Expand the Range of an Asian Bat and the Deadly Disease it Carries

By Chad Small

Floodwater covers roads following heavy rain on April 4 in Hopkinsville, Ky. Credit: Jason Davis/Getty Images

Atmospheric Rivers May be Diminishing on the West Coast and Surging in the East, Study Finds

By Chad Small

People travel through dense smog due to air pollution in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 17, 2024. Credit: Salman Ali/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

Air Pollution Can Speed Aging, New Study Finds, but Measuring Other Factors Is Challenging

By Chad Small

People vote on the New York City mayoral primary election at Louis D. Brandeis High School day in Manhattan on June 24. Credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

The Heat That Seared New York City’s Primary Voters Is Just One Impact of Global Warming on Elections

By Chad Small

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