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Texas Researchers Make A Heatstroke Calculator for Burn Victims
Extreme heat poses a significant threat to millions of people worldwide, particularly to burn victims, who have lost the ability to regulate their internal body temperatures through the natural process of homeostasis.

Myriam Vidal Valero
Oct 65 min read


What Happens To Zimbabwe’s Teenagers When They Can’t Afford Menstrual Care and Clean Water
The root causes of period poverty in Zimbabwe run deeper than simple affordability. Prolonged droughts, many worsened by climate change, have devastated crops and pushed millions into deeper poverty, leaving agrarian families unable to buy basic menstrual products.

Derick Matsengarwodzi
Sep 307 min read


Exclusive: Inside A Ukrainian Burn Unit
Ukraine is by far the country most hard hit by cuts to USAID. With the end of the Russian invasion nowhere in sight, doctors have to make use of the dwindling resources at their disposal to save as many victims with severe burns as possible.

Kang-Chun Cheng
Aug 255 min read


“They Won’t Stop Sucking Workers’ Blood”: New York Home Care Workers Demand End to 24-Hour Shifts
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.

Zhenjia Zhang
Jul 116 min read


“I Was Having a Good Time”: How Did a Small Town in South Texas Get Hit With Two Oil Spills?
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.

Alex Ip
May 2613 min read


Jakarta's Urban Farms Come To The Rescue Of Food-Insecure Residents
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.

Arpan Rachman and Andi Aisyah Lamboge
Apr 237 min read


River Nile Blues: Famished Sudanese Turn to the Humble Sweet Potato
Bread has traditionally been Sudan’s primary food source, but sweet potatoes have replaced it due to disruptions around the Sudan civil war.

The Xylom
Apr 99 min read


Everything You Need to Know about Bird Flu
H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way for the outbreak we’re seeing today.

Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine
Apr 315 min read


Perspective: Take the Green Pill, You Stay out of Wonderland
Slimming pills and teas are often marketed with a kind of urgency that can often result in people taking products that destroy their bodies.

Roseline Mgbodichinma Anya Okorie
Nov 24, 20245 min read


When Indonesia’s Most Populous Island Becomes Parched
Climate change has changed rainfall patterns in Indonesia, which is increasing the incidence of droughts in Central Java.

Garry Lotulung
Nov 15, 20244 min read
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