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A person is seen standing through leaves.

A Mayan Farming Technique to Fight Guatemala's Food Insecurity

by Isabella Rolz

The K'uxu'rum system improves crop yields and enables farmers to adapt to climate extremes

Poverty

A nurse takes a woman's blood pressure.

Haiti's Epidemic of Early-Onset Heart Disease

by Susan Kreimer

A new study finds cardiovascular disease rates in Haiti are at least three times greater than among Black Americans

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira

Environment

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

by Alton Lu

Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?