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
I honestly thought the O2 requirement for jet engines would be one of the first things we saw the heat affecting. I guess teeth are the first human thing to go
"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
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...
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: Representation is essential to environmental justice. Without it, communities of color, including Asian Americans, bear a disproportionate share of environmental harms. Having found this disparity striking, Casey Iwamoto writes about the importance of interconnectedness in nature-based careers.
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:
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.
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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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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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:
www.thexylom.com/post/mozambi...
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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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.
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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…
My own family members have diverse relationships with nature. Surprisingly, when I asked them about it, many said they felt no connection to the environment — a response that contrasted with my…
