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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.

Ashley Simango
3 days ago7 min read


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.”

Lorraine Boissoneault
6 days ago13 min read


Jasmine Clark Is Poised To Be the First Black Woman Ph.D. Scientist in Congress
The Xylom spoke to Jasmine Clark, a Georgia state representative and Ph.D. microbiologist in the "Stand Up for Science" Protest last year. This week, she won the Democratic primary to represent a safely blue House seat in Georgia.

Grace Panetta, The 19th
May 223 min read


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.
Priyanka Thirumurthy
May 76 min read


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.
Priyanka Thirumurthy & Nigazh A.I
Apr 246 min read


“We Are All Still Waiting for Answers:” Papua New Guinea’s Ocean Crisis Enters Fourth Month
Mass marine die-off triggers health emergency in New Ireland Province as neglected coastal towns wait on government action.

Rachel Ramirez
Apr 87 min read


‘Uprooted Over and Over, You Are Nowhere’: Bhutanese Refugees, Retraumatized by Trump 2.0, See Skyrocketing Suicide Rates
Ohio nonprofit leader Sudarshan Pyakurel on third country relocation and other immigration policies that retraumatize highly vulnerable Bhutanese refugees in the U.S.

Simran Sethi, MindSite News
Apr 115 min read


These Drones Are Not Built to Kill
Ukrainian deminers are deploying drones to clear the remnants of Russia's full-scale invasion—protecting communities and reclaiming land.

Kang-Chun Cheng 鄭康君
Mar 211 min read


Filipino American Health Care Workers Are Taking Their Legacy of Fighting for Freedom to Trump
Caregivers are applying lessons from resisting authoritarianism under Philippine dictator Marcos Sr. to the modern-day fight against Trump.

Jasmine Mithani, The 19th
Feb 108 min read


AI Promises Cleaner Farming in Tanzania — and the World. Now Comes the Real Test.
A new AI app is helping Tanzanian farmers cut pesticide use and boost profits. Will bureaucratic hurdles hinder its wider adoption?

Kang-Chun Cheng 鄭康君
Jan 156 min read
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