Health

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Campaigning for votes when temperatures soar is dangerous, but many say India is in denial about the problem.

Mass marine die-off triggers health emergency in New Ireland Province as neglected coastal towns wait on government action.

Ohio nonprofit leader Sudarshan Pyakurel on third country relocation and other immigration policies that retraumatize highly vulnerable Bhutanese refugees in the U.S.

Ukrainian deminers are deploying drones to clear the remnants of Russia's full-scale invasion—protecting communities and reclaiming land.

Caregivers are applying lessons from resisting authoritarianism under Philippine dictator Marcos Sr. to the modern-day fight against Trump.