Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world's poorest countries, and what does compensation look like?

That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial. Here are some of the ideas being floated.

Bethany Tietjen, Research fellow in climate policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University • conversation
Nov. 2, 2022 • ~8 min

Facing the dual threat of climate change and human disturbance, Mumbai – and the world – should listen to its fishing communities

Facing human threats, Mumbai’s Koli community are taking risk reduction into their own hands – other vulnerable coastal settlements should take note.

Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur • conversation
Oct. 19, 2022 • ~7 min

Assessments of thinking skills may misrepresent poor, inner-city children in the US

Some of the assessment tools which measure children’s thinking skills in the US may have provided inaccurate information about poor, urban students because

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 12, 2022 • ~6 min

No, it's not just sugary food that's responsible for poor oral health in America's children, especially in Appalachia

Appalachia has one of the highest rates of oral health problems per person in the US.

Mary L. Marazita, Director, Center for Craniofacial and Dental Genetics; Professor of Oral Biology and of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences • conversation
Oct. 3, 2022 • ~9 min

Experts urge government to keep focus on levelling-up health

Experts are calling on the government to continue focusing on ‘levelling-up’ health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 30, 2022 • ~5 min

People of color are as interested in buying electric cars as white consumers – the biggest obstacle is access to charging

Reducing air pollution from cars and light trucks would pay big health dividends for low-income and minority communities. A new survey shows how to get more drivers of color into electric vehicles.

Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, Adjunct Lecturer in Urban Studies, The New School • conversation
Sept. 27, 2022 • ~6 min

Pakistan’s floods are a disaster – but they didn't have to be

Framing floods as ‘natural disasters’ deflects from the reality that vulnerability must exist before a crisis can emerge.

Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL • conversation
Sept. 20, 2022 • ~6 min

Yes, Black patients do want to help with medical research – here are ways to overcome the barriers that keep clinical trials from recruiting diverse populations

Overcoming the access barriers and biases that underrepresented and underserved communities face could not only improve research participation but also improve care.

RaKetra Snipes, Physician Assistant in Gastroenterology, Morehouse School of Medicine • conversation
Sept. 8, 2022 • ~9 min

Building something better: How community organizing helps people thrive in challenging times

Organizers across the US are finding innovative grassroots strategies for helping people thrive. Many of these ventures emphasize working together as part of communities and collective systems.

Meghan Elizabeth Kallman, Assistant Professor of International Development, UMass Boston • conversation
Sept. 8, 2022 • ~10 min

Why we should abandon the concept of the 'climate refugee'

When climate change is used to explain migration, social inequality is naturalised.

W. Andrew Baldwin, Associate Professor in Human Geography, Durham University • conversation
Aug. 23, 2022 • ~8 min

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