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A woman uses her hands to help irrigate a crop of onions in a field.

The Mysterious Kidney Illness Rising Among Sri Lankan Farmers

by Carrie Arnold

Are pesticides in drinking water to blame for kidney disease among young farmers?

Poverty
A woman holds a portrait of her late husband after he passed away due to a diabetes-related heart attack, in Red Wing, Minnesota, on September 29, 2021.

Casualties of COVID: Insulin and Dialysis 

by Quinn Rafferty, Lauryn Stafford, Liane Ong

How the pandemic has been life-threatening to people living with diabetes and chronic kidney disease

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?