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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.

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.”

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.

"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."

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.

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.

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.