# Press coverage of own research and interviews ### ***Interviews and Coverage of Dr. More's Research (partial list)*** ***FOR MEDIA INQUIRIES, PLEASE EMAIL afmore at fas dot harvard dot edu OR USE THE*** [CONTACT](/contact_owner) FORM***. THANK YOU!*** "[How environmental conditions like cold and wet weather can affect pandemics, and what that means for COVID-19](https://us.cnn.com/2020/09/28/health/climate-affects-pandemics-new-study-trnd-scn/index.html)," ***CNN*** *"*[Catastrophic effect of 1918 flu may have been aided by peculiar influx of cold air into Europe during WWI](https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/spanish-flu-1918-climate/2020/10/02/9b730432-0339-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html)," ***Washington Post*** "[Climate Study Suggests Weather Anomaly Worsened World War I And The 1918 Flu Pandemic](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2020/09/28/climate-study-suggests-weather-anomaly-worsened-world-war-i-and-the-1918-flu-pandemic/#18f3655258a7)" ***Forbes*** "[Six-year deluge linked to Spanish flu, World War I deaths](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/10/study-offers-clues-to-how-climate-affected-1918-pandemic/?utm_medium=Feed&utm_source=Syndication)," ***Harvard Gazette*** *"*How Climate Affects Pandemics*,"* [***CBS***](https://www.cbs46.com/news/how-climate-change-affects-pandemics/article_df64fb2e-455a-509b-9d0a-6f3ec935269a.html)***,*** [***NBC***](https://www.wsmv.com/news/us_world_news/how-climate-change-affects-pandemics/article_ef7d3754-7d28-5adb-8989-1a508d84e2b9.html)***,*** [***FOX***](https://www.fox10tv.com/news/us_world_news/how-climate-change-affects-pandemics/article_f9e542aa-4799-5fae-aaa3-e61713c62a28.html) "[Deadly impact of wet winters on WWI and Spanish flu victims](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/23/wet-winters-wwi-spanish-flu)" ***The Guardian*** *"*[異常気象がスペイン風邪の世界的流行の誘因だった？ 研究結果](https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories/world/2020/09/post-94585.php)" \[Did extreme climate trigger a pandemic?\] ***Newsweek*** ***"***[A 'Climate Anomaly' Worsened World War I and the 1918 Flu Pandemic, New Research Suggests](https://gizmodo.com/a-climate-anomaly-worsened-world-war-i-and-the-1918-flu-1845182559)," ***Gizmodo*** "[Wie Regen und Kälte die Spanische Grippe 1918 beeinflusst haben](https://de.euronews.com/2020/09/28/wie-starker-regen-und-kalte-die-spanische-grippe-1918-beeinflusst-haben),*" **Euronews*** "[Unusual Climate Conditions Influenced WWI Mortality And Subsequent Spanish Flu Pandemic](https://scienmag.com/unusual-climate-conditions-influenced-wwi-mortality-and-subsequent-spanish-flu-pandemic/)," ***Science Mag*** *"*[The Unusual Relationship Between Climate and Pandemics](https://eos.org/articles/podcast-the-unusual-relationship-between-climate-and-pandemics)," ***EOS*** **(American Geophysical Union)** "[Unusual climate conditions influenced WWI mortality and subsequent Spanish flu pandemic](https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/agu-ucc092420.php)," ***American Association for the Advancement of Science*** "[Ice Core Research Reveals Climate Anomaly During WWI, 1918 Flu Epidemic](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/1/ice-core-research/)" ***Harvard Crimson*** ***"***[Covid-19 : une anomalie climatique réécrit la guerre de 1914-1918... et l'avenir de la pandémie](https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/actualites/climatologie-covid-19-anomalie-climatique-reecrit-guerre-1914-1918-avenir-pandemie-83276/#xtor=RSS-8)" *Futura Planète* "[Ice Core Offers Insight Into 20th-Century Spanish Flu Pandemic](https://www.archaeology.org/news/9086-201007-climate-war-pandemic)," ***Archaeology*** "[Humans Polluted the Air Much Earlier than Previously Thought](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-polluted-air-much-earlier-previously-thought-180963528/)," ***Smithsonian Magazine*** "[A 14th-century plague helped reveal just how long humans have polluted the planet](http://www.popsci.com/black-death-plague-air-pollution)," ***Popular Science Magazine*** "[Europe's Triumphs and Troubles are Written in Swiss Ice](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/science/icecore-europe-pollen.html?emc=edit_nn_20180918&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=8354221420180918&te=1)," ***New York Times*** ["We've been poisoning ourselves for the last 2000 years](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/30/we-have-been-poisoning-ourselves-has-ice-analysis-revealed-the-truth-about-lead)," ***The Guardian*** "[Quarantine](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/science-diction/articles/science-diction-quarantine)" *interview with **NPR** Science Friday's "Science Diction* *"*[The culture of Earth Day](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/how-earth-day-moved-environmentalism-front-and-center/)" ***Harvard Gazette*** "[Alpine Ice Core Reveaks the Impact of the Economy on Pollution](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/alpine-ice-core-economy-thomas-beckett-murder-a9437546.html)" ***The Independent*** "[Humans are to blame for lead pollution: Study of glacial ice reveals the toxin was not present in the air when industry was brought to a standstill by the Black Death](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4558400/Lead-pollution-revealed-Black-Death-ice-cores.html)," ***Daily Mail*** "[Lead Pollution in Ancient Ice cores](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/lead-pollution-ancient-ice-cores-may-track-rise-and-fall-medieval-kings)," ***Science Magazine*** *"*[Ice Cores Dating From The Black Death Challenge The Concept of 'Natural' Lead Levels](https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-ice-dating-from-the-black-death-challenges-the-idea-of-natural-lead-levels)" ***Science Alert*** "[How 2,000-year-old Roads Predict Modern-day Prosperity](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/06/how-year-old-roads-predict-modern-day-prosperity/?utm_term=.6e0c1a543076)," ***The Washington Post*** (coverage of digital historical atlas of which I'm managing editor) "[Air Pollution from 12th Century Detected in Swiss Glacier](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8168379/Air-pollution-12th-century-British-lead-mines-detected-Swiss-Alps.html)." ***The Daily Mail*** "[An ice core reveals how profoundly the Black Death changed society](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/07/13/an-ice-core-reveals-how-profoundly-the-black-death-impacted-medieval-society/#78c59430ec19)," ***Forbes Magazine*** "[Europe's Lead Pollution Dropped to Zero Only Once in the Last 2000 Years: And All it Took Was the Black Death](http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lead-pollution-europe-black-death-plague)," ***Atlas Obscura*** “[Protecting the Amazon Requires Changing Policy and Eating Less Beef](https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/08/27/amazon-rainforest-fires-beef-policy/),” ***Columbia University’s State of the Planet*** "[New Laser Technology Reveals Climate Change Will Induce of Stronger Saharan Dust Storms](https://glacierhub.org/2020/02/25/new-laser-technology-reveals-climate-change-will-bring-a-future-of-stronger-saharan-dust-storms/?fbclid=IwAR3sNNDOo8DCfYscUmwzj6lmozrvd5n71bv3JsOuPLr-6xH_ZzTK14RF5Qk)," ***Columbia University's GlacierHub*** "[Climate Change, Health and the Anthropocene: Why We Must Study the Past](https://remedianetwork.net/2017/12/08/climate-change-health-and-the-anthropocene-why-we-must-study-the-past/)," ***Remedia*** "[Highest premodern lead pollution occurred 800 years ago](https://phys.org/news/2020-04-highest-pre-modern-pollution-years.html)," ***Phys.org*** "[Andamos a envenenar-nos há muito mais tempo do que imaginávamos](https://visao.sapo.pt/especiais/oceano-de-esperanca/2020-02-21-andamos-a-envenenar-nos-ha-muito-mais-tempo-do-que-imaginavamos/?dismiss-splash=1&fbclid=IwAR0cewGX2pf-zM6ELNZ_AGbyEinAtXFcuietYAdBIFsCWurLHU3aDK1M54g)," ***Visão*** (article in [Google Translate](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&u=https://visao.sapo.pt/especiais/oceano-de-esperanca/2020-02-21-andamos-a-envenenar-nos-ha-muito-mais-tempo-do-que-imaginavamos/?dismiss-splash=1&fbclid=IwAR0cewGX2pf-zM6ELNZ_AGbyEinAtXFcuietYAdBIFsCWurLHU3aDK1M54g)) *"*[Lead Pollution Trapped in Greenland Ice Shows Rise and Fall of Ancient Societies](https://www.newsweek.com/lead-pollution-trapped-greenland-ice-shows-rise-and-fall-ancient-societies-925221)*,*" ***Newsweek*** "[Highest pre-modern lead pollution occurred 800 years ago](https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/04/highest-pre-modern-lead-pollution.html)." ***Archaeology News Network*** "[L'homme rejette du plomb dans l'atmosphère depuis au moins 2000 ans](https://www.science-et-vie.com/article/l-homme-rejette-du-plomb-dans-l-atmosphere-depuis-au-moins-2000-ans-8817)," ***Science et Vie*** "[Human Activity Has Polluted European Air for 2000 Years](https://eos.org/scientific-press/human-activity-has-polluted-european-air-for-2000-years)," ***Eos*** (American Geophysical Union) "[Lisboa prepara-se para receber “elite mundial” da exploração científica](https://observador.pt/2019/04/23/lisboa-prepara-se-para-receber-elite-mundial-da-exploracao-cientifica/)," \[Lisbon prepares to receive "world elite" of scientific exploration\] ***Observador*** "[Cohasset Announces Town-wide Earth Day Programs](https://cohasset.wickedlocal.com/news/20190423/cohasset-announces-town-wide-earth-day-programs)," ***WickedLocal*** "[Die Bleizeit](http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/luftverschmutzung-die-bleizeit-1.3530554)," \[The Lead Age\] ***Süddeutsche Zeitung*** *"*[The Ongoing Tragedy of Lead in Our Lives](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/11/harvard-conference-focuses-on-the-ongoing-tragedy-of-lead-in-life/)*," Harvard Gazette* (coverage of the Lead Summit at Harvard, which I organized and where I presented) *"*[Congelado en su interior, un glaciar guarda rastros de la historia de Europa](https://www.clarin.com/new-york-times-international-weekly/congelado-interior-glaciar-guarda-rastros-historia-europa_0_OuluuptHke.html)," \[Frozen in its interior, a glacier keeps traces of the history of Europe\] *Clarín, **The New York Times International Weekly*** "[Harvard Study Challenges Assumptions of Natural Lead Levels](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/harvard-study-challenges-assumptions-on-natural-lead-levels)," ***Harvard Gazette*** "[Die größte Wirtschaftskatastrophe der Geschichte](http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/news-aus-boston-schlechte-nachrichten-fuer-ausserirdische-a-1151718.html)," ***Der Spiegel*** "[Die Sünden der Alten](http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/erde-klima/luftverschmutzung-seit-2000-jahren-15048218.html)," ***Frankfurter Allgemein*** "[Le plomb: une pollution ancienne](http://www.journaldelenvironnement.net/article/le-plomb-une-pollution-ancienne,83315)," ***Journal de l'Environnement*** "[Bleigehalt: Nur die Pest sorgte für saubere Luft](http://derstandard.at/2000058735065/Bleigehalt-Nur-die-Pest-sorgte-fuer-saubere-Luft)," ***Der Standard*** "[Analyse van ijskern onthult de waarheid over lood: "We zijn onszelf al 2.000 jaar aan het vergiftigen](http://www.demorgen.be/wetenschap/analyse-van-ijskern-onthult-de-waarheid-over-lood-we-zijn-onszelf-al-2-000-jaar-aan-het-vergiftigen-b350cb17/)" \[Analysis of ice core reveals the truth about lead: we've been poisoning ourselves for the last 2000 years\] ***De Morgen*** "[SoHP and Climate Change Institute Awarded $.5M Arcadia Grant for Historical Ice Core Project](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/sohp-and-cci-awarded-arcadia-fund-grant-for-historical-ice-core-project/)," ***Harvard Gazette*** "[Ancient Rome's Collapse Written into Arctic Ice](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/scientists-reclaim-the-long-lost-economic-history-of-rome/560339/?utm_source=twb)," ***The Atlantic*** "[La polución por plomo se depositó en los Alpes desde hace 2.000 años, según un estudio](https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/sociedad/2017/06/05/la-polucion-por-plomo-deposito-los-alpes-desde-hace-000-anos-segun-estudio-1179805-310.html)," \[Lead pollution has been desposited in the Alpls for 2000 years, according to a study\] ***Heraldo*** "[The Science of History](http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/03/science-of-history)," ***Harvard Magazine*** "[Climate Data Suggests Famine Worsened the Black Death](http://www.archaeology.org/news/4050-160106-black-death-famine)," ***Archaeology*** ***Related to organized events, conferences, teaching*** "[Did Climate Change Worsen the Black Death](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/01/did-famine-worsen-the-black-death/)," ***Harvard Gazette**,* January 5, 2016 "[Hamilton Takes Harvard](https://hlrecord.org/hamilton-takes-harvard/)," ***Harvard Law Record***, Nov. 16, 2015