Climate Change

Community health worker Suraiyya Terdale smiles and writes in a notebook as she speaks with a woman wearing a white patterned scarf who is seated with her hands clasped outside a building.

Local Reporting Initiative

Climate Change’s Overlooked Role in Obesity

Dozens of bystanders look on as they watch rescuers in a helicopter search the site of a capsized cruise boat on Lake Victoria near Mutima village, south of Kampala, Uganda, on a grey, cloudy day.

The Push to Prevent Drownings in Uganda

Many of the historic buildings, shops, bars, and clubs along Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee.

Environmental Health

Transportation Justice in Music City

Photo of a transgender person in Pakistan, seated at a vanity with a fan in the foreground.

Pakistan’s Trans Community Is Especially Vulnerable to Climate Crises

Hellen Anyango sorting a stash of firewood, which she occasionally sells to help support her four children. Nduru camp, Kisumu City, Kenya.

Early Warning Systems Vital for Climate Risk Preparedness in Kenya

A man takes rest from selling water bottles on a hot afternoon near India Gate in Delhi.

‘Heat Poverty’: A Growing Threat in India

Teenager Hasina Begum fishing in the salty Kholpetua River in southwestern Bangladesh.

Environmental Health

Silent Killer: Saltwater Threatens Women’s Health in Coastal Bangladesh

A Palestinian child wearing a blue shirt waits in line for clean water in Rafah, Gaza, on March 16.

What It Would Take to Achieve Water for Peace

Farm worker Sunita Nikam sits in a field in Kurundvad, India.

Reproductive Health

Is Climate Change Making Menopause Symptoms More Severe in India?

UNICEF Youth Advocates engage in a roundtable during the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) at the Youth Climate Champion Pavilion. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 5, 2023.

Ending the Invisibility of Children in Climate Change Negotiations

ASHA Shubhangi Kamble walking through a dirty patch of mud during heavy rainfall to a community member’s house whose child fell sick.

Extreme Weather Makes a Hard Job Harder for India’s Health Workers

Maintenance employees of the IMSS hospital in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, prep for Hurricane Genevieve on August 19, 2020. Alfredo Martinez/Getty Images

‘The Gates of Hell’ Have Opened—Can Health Systems Help Close Them?