reading about south asian farm workers losing their teeth in their twenties — because the climate has gotten so hot their bodies cant produce the proper saliva to keep their enamel — has me seeing red today
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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 patient...
NEW: As temperatures rise, it is the poor who suffer most. The coping strategies of those living in informal settlements may hold lessons for cities of the future.
This story by @laurainparis.bsky.social was first published by @knowablemag.bsky.social and supported by @pulitzercenter.org.
"For months, the ocean has been washing its dead marine life ashore."
"Coastal communities first reported the contamination to the Papua New Guinea government last December."
"[T]he government's silence forced local hands."
#PapuaNewGuinea #Water #Animals #Climate #Mining
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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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:
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:
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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"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."
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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Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. Treatable in its early stages, repeated infections can turn the eyelids inward, causing the eyelashes to scrape the eyeballs.
Yet, Mozambique's journey to eradicate the disease just got much harder:
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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…
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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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…
As fish-drying process is becoming automated, Indian women are finally reclaiming lost hours for leisure and bonding with their children.
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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…
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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…
As temperatures rise, it is the poor who suffer most. The coping strategies of those living in informal settlements may hold lessons for cities of the future.
