Health

While factors such as loud noise, aging, injuries, and chronic illnesses can cause hearing impairment, a growing number of studies have found an unusual connection between air pollution and hearing loss.

Legally purchasing PreP and PEP pills from private pharmacies can be expensive for sex workers, who are required to submit to expensive medical tests on top of purchasing the pills.

Despite CPC’s mission to “promote the social and economic empowerment” of Asian American communities, they have played a role in enforcing 24-hour workdays for home care workers with only 13 hours of pay. Protestors complain that the “stolen” wages of 11 hours a day, now amounting to over $90 million in lost wages, have been used to build the 30-storey luxury tower in Manhattan that they now hold signs in front of.

Fueled by social media, crowdfunding is now the unofficial health insurance scheme for Nigerians.

A rainbow coalition of Texas Coastal Bend residents tried every tool in the regulatory process to stop the crude oil export industry. Did they ever have agency?

A playing field tilted towards regional officials, Texas Republicans, and foreign energy companies turned sleepy Ingleside on the Bay, Texas, into the Crude Oil Export Terminal of the United States, and did local residents in. 

Three export terminals that captured half of the U.S. crude oil export industry have formed around Ingleside on the Bay, turning the Texas Coastal Bend town into an unlikely fenceline community.

In Jakarta, community-led urban farming is not only a solution for citizens to reclaim food sovereignty, but it also increases the megacity's climate resiliency.

H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way for the outbreak we’re seeing today.

Leveraging trust built over time, doctors hope to depolarize the issue and break through misinformation.