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According to assessments by the United Nations Development Programme Insurance and Risk Finance Facility, Mozambique faces the world’s seventh-highest disaster risk, with climate change being the leading driver.
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ICYMI: "Indian Women Dry Fish With the Power of the Sun, in the Palms of Their Hands" by Laasya Shekhar has been named a finalist for the @inn.org Insight Award for Visual Journalism in the 2026 Nonprofit News Awards:
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NEW: For Diane Wilson, the 8,000-mile trip to Formosa Plastics’ annual shareholder meeting in Taipei was part of a strategy of being relentless.
This story by @dylanbaddour.bsky.social was produced by @insideclimatenews.org and co-published by The Xylom.
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NEW: For Diane Wilson, the 8,000-mile trip to Formosa Plastics’ annual shareholder meeting in Taipei was part of a strategy of being relentless.
This story by @dylanbaddour.bsky.social was produced by @insideclimatenews.org and co-published by The Xylom.
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Diane Wilson, who won the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize for her landmark lawsuit and settlement agreement with Formosa Plastics on the Texas Gulf Coast, crossed 13 time zones to confront Formosa’s leadership on its home turf, at its annual shareholder meeting in Taipei.
This is what happened:
“The rapid physiological damage to teeth among heat-exposed workers is visible and measurable. But because it’s a dental issue — because it doesn’t kill people quickly like heatstroke does — it’s been largely ignored by the medical establishment.” More unexpected effects of the #climatecrisis
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"My research that when workers in their late twenties and early thirties lose functional teeth, they don’t just lose the ability to chew solid food, though that’s devastating enough. They are fundamentally unable to do their jobs effectively."
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"Sinlaku may have successfully dismantled the physical foundations of the Northern Marianas [...] but it failed to fracture the islands’ deepest infrastructure: a community that refuses to stay broken," writes @rachelreports.bsky.social.
She attended a secret rally in the mountains at midnight with a local environmental organizer, recently returned from exile and surrounded by volunteer bodyguards to protect him against…
She attended a secret rally in the mountains at midnight with a local environmental organizer, recently returned from exile and surrounded by volunteer bodyguards to protect him against…
Before Trump dismantled USAID, Mozambique had been battling hard-to-eliminate trachoma, an eye disease that causes blindness, especially among children. Now, a lack of stable funding and clean water…
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As fish-drying process is becoming automated, Indian women are finally reclaiming lost hours for leisure and bonding with their children.
She attended a secret rally in the mountains at midnight with a local environmental organizer, recently returned from exile and surrounded by volunteer bodyguards to protect him against…
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After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented pH readings below 5.5 in 42 of my 73 climate-exposed…
Residents of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, are no strangers to tropical cyclones, but climate change is supercharging storms and disrupting education on the islands.
NEW: For Diane Wilson, the 8,000-mile trip to Formosa Plastics’ annual shareholder meeting in Taipei was part of a strategy of being relentless.
This story by @dylanbaddour.bsky.social was produced by @insideclimatenews.org and co-published by The Xylom.
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"My research that when workers in their late twenties and early thirties lose functional teeth, they don’t just lose the ability to chew solid food, though that’s devastating enough. They are fundamentally unable to do their jobs effectively."
www.thexylom.com/post/pakista...
She attended a secret rally in the mountains at midnight with a local environmental organizer, recently returned from exile and surrounded by volunteer bodyguards to protect him against…
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After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented pH readings below 5.5 in 42 of my 73 climate-exposed…
