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CLIMATE
Stories of change, action, and resilience


In Parliaments, TikTok and COP Summits, This Atlanta-Based Doomsday ‘Cult’ Spreads Climate Disinformation
AllatRa, a “religious cult” founded in Ukraine and now headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, has spread climate misinformation from parliaments and TikTok to COP summits, including the false claim that greenhouse gases are not the primary driver of the climate crisis.


Climate Solutions Are Taking Root in the World’s Slums
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.


Why a Retired Texas Shrimper Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company
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 assassination. She heard stories about the village leaders who disappeared after speaking out against Formosa and she met a man who spent six years in jail for climbing a chemical plant tower in protest. “That inspired me,” Wilson told Lin. “Ten years later I did it in Texas.”


When the Heat Steals Your Smile
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 patients, primarily sugarcane workers, cotton pickers, and construction laborers from Punjab’s most heat-affected districts.


‘We Didn’t Name It A Better World Is Probable’: Meera Subramanian on Hope in A Climate Crisis
"Through these real-life kids, we could get to the heart of showing how much power anyone who decides to work towards climate action has. And they showed — though their backgrounds and experiences of climate change even at young ages [are different] — what is fundamentally a global story."


EXCLUSIVE: Climate-Induced Floods Wash Away USAID-Abandoned Mozambique’s Efforts to Eliminate Trachoma
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 — critical for preventing transmission, but hard to find among the wreckage caused by climate-induced cyclones and flooding — threatens to reverse the country’s modest progress.


Death Valley Is A Place About Life
As Timbisha elder Pauline Esteves would write more than a century into the colonization and displacement process, “The term ‘Death Valley’ is unfortunate… This is a place about life.”


‘We Didn’t Lose Each Other:’ How People Are Picking up the Pieces After Super Typhoon Sinlaku
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.


Democracy, Meet Extreme Heat: The End of Summer Elections?
Across India and beyond, voters are being asked to go to the polls in dangerously high temperatures, with democracy as well as their health at risk.


India’s Electoral System is Melting Under Extreme Heat
Campaigning for votes when temperatures soar is dangerous, but many say India is in denial about the problem.
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