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I love the idea of honey that makes you hallucinate because of something in the flowers the bees visit, and I love the name “madhoney”, but everything I’ve ever read about the actual effects makes it sound incredibly unpleasant
"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.
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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@dylanbaddour.bsky.social was so instrumental to my South Texas reporting behind-the-scenes, his name appeared in my @mitsciwrite.bsky.social thesis.
I am so excited that through @thexylom.com @insideclimatenews.org, we get to collaborate again on this important cross-border climate justice story:
"I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented pH readings below 5.5 in 42 of my 73 climate-exposed patients, primarily sugarcane workers, cotton pickers, and construction laborers from Punjab’s most heat-affected districts."
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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"Since the book has been out, some people are reading it to their five-year- olds, and the kids get it. Others working on climate change for years still read it and say that they learned something. I learned a lot by writing it, even though this has been my world for a very long time."
As the use of mad honey for a recreational high is on the rise, driven by social media hype rather than science, so are cases of mad honey disease, emerging from regions that historically never reported such cases. (Published January)
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Get Meera Subramanian and Danica Novgorodoff's new graphic nonfiction book, A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis, at our Bookshop:
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As the use of mad honey for a recreational high is on the rise, driven by social media hype rather than science, so are cases of mad honey disease, emerging from regions that historically never reported such cases. (Published January)
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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.
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.
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…
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…
Meera Subramanian reflects on a new graphic nonfiction book she co-authored, A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis, and what gives her hope in the face of a warming…
In recent years, mad honey, a sacred yet psychedelic gift among Himalayan tribes, has been appropriated by “podcast bros”, creating health and ecological complications.
In recent years, mad honey, a sacred yet psychedelic gift among Himalayan tribes, has been appropriated by “podcast bros”, creating health and ecological complications.
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.
www.thexylom.com/post/texas-s...
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…
