BY BLAKE MAULSBY Paula Kavathas has led an illustrious career that has charted new ground in both immunobiology and diversity in science. Since a young age, Kavathas was always fascinated by science and medicine and thus aspired to shape her career around these interests. While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a friend of Kavathas was … Continue reading Paula Kavathas: A Profile
Tag: Issue 10.2: Spring 2025
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings. I was surprised at her surprise: as a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my … Continue reading A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
Health, Climate, and Herring in Sitka
BY WILL SALAVERRY How does the way salmon dig their redds (nests) into the riverbed affect the flow of water downstream toward the sea? How does this, in turn, affect the health of the forest, laced by the rushing water that the salmon have guided through the underbrush? How does that ancient engineering influence the … Continue reading Health, Climate, and Herring in Sitka
The Price Isn’t Right: The Cost of Colonialism and Climate Change in Pakistan
BY F. KHAN The boy is caught mid-jump, his toothy smile and extended limbs in kinetic motion, a striking contrast to the still waters corralled by the Norris Reservoir1 in Rocky Top, TN. Its construction began in 1933, making it the first dam to be built by the landmark Tennessee Valley Authority legislation, an agency … Continue reading The Price Isn’t Right: The Cost of Colonialism and Climate Change in Pakistan
Climate Change, Warfare, and Food Insecurity: When Agricultural Innovation Isn’t Enough
BY MYLA TOLIVER As Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director of the Food and Agriculture Association, once argued, “there is no food security without peace, and no peace without food security,” especially not with climate change.1 Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the cost of human commercial activities on the environment has been so extreme that … Continue reading Climate Change, Warfare, and Food Insecurity: When Agricultural Innovation Isn’t Enough
Fields, Fires, and Fungi: Valley Fever in the Changing Environment
BY LOLYN TEJEDA LEMUS A cough can mean anything: a cold, a sore throat, a reflex after a perhaps over-eager sip of water. But as winds pick up earthy remnants of recent harvests, how certain can you be that a cough is benign and not a sign of something treacherous beneath your feet. Therein lies … Continue reading Fields, Fires, and Fungi: Valley Fever in the Changing Environment
The Danger of American Isolationism
BY NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA On his first day back in presidential office, Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 12 months.1 His signature marks an alarming descent into American isolationism regarding health, throwing the future of global health in peril. Since the WHO’s inception in 1948, the … Continue reading The Danger of American Isolationism
The True Cost of Mining in a Changing Climate: The Global Health Crisis in South America’s Yanomami Territory
BY DEBBIE MOJEKWU “We want to live, we want our peace back and our territory,” says Júnior Hekurari, health leader of the Yanomami people in Roraima state, Brazil.1 Mining has been a culturally accepted practice since prehistoric times, with people seeking invaluable resources, such as gold, in the deepest cores of the earth. However, what … Continue reading The True Cost of Mining in a Changing Climate: The Global Health Crisis in South America’s Yanomami Territory
Cooked: How Extreme Heat Became America’s Deadliest Natural Disaster
BY RISHI SHAH In 2024, Earth experienced its hottest year on record, with global temperatures soaring 1.47°C (2.65°F) above pre-industrial revolution levels—an alarming milestone in a trajectory that shows no sign of slowing.1 Extreme heat is now the deadliest weather-related hazard in the United States, killing more people annually than hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes combined.2 … Continue reading Cooked: How Extreme Heat Became America’s Deadliest Natural Disaster
Trapped in the Fire: How the Sonoma County Ag Pass Risks Farmworkers’ Lives
BY ANDREA CHOW Joan Didion, a writer and essayist of California notoriety, once wrote that the Santa Ana winds make mechanistic creatures out of all of us. In late fall and early winter, Californians know what it is like to lick our cracked lips, scratch at our wrinkled knuckles, and grip the edges of our … Continue reading Trapped in the Fire: How the Sonoma County Ag Pass Risks Farmworkers’ Lives
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