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Victoria St. Martin@victoriastmartin.bsky.social |
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Health and environmental justice reporter at Inside Climate News | Mom, storyteller & survivor
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Victoria St. Martin
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Scientists are learning more about just how bad heat waves and other extreme weather events can be for your health. One research team looked at nearly 500 studies and found links between high temperatures and cardiovascular disease.
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In this new story from TON, Myriam Vidal Valero talks to @victoriastmartin.bsky.social and others to help you: find the right people to talk to within a community, approach sources with sensitivity and respect, and more. 🧪
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As summer approaches, a new study finds that heatwaves are linked to an increased risk of preterm and early births among pregnant people.
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To Edward Buckles Jr., who directed the HBO documentary “Katrina Babies,” it’s not called eco-anxiety or climate-related PTSD — he prefers to say that he suffers from “climate racism.”
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“When those spills come? You could smell all through the neighborhood, and in your house.” Sonya Sanders is haunted by air pollution and her husband’s death. Her climate change-related PTSD and eco-anxiety come after decades of living next to an oil refinery. Here’s her story: bit.ly/climatechang...
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“Owning our own beauty” has not always been an option for Black women, says Heather McTeer Toney. She wants to change that by sounding the alarm on harmful beauty products
Here is part 3:
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Thanks to Timothy Ivy for the breathtaking photos!
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Jeanette Toomer was diagnosed with stage 4 endometrial cancer after decades of using formaldehyde-based relaxers. She believes the cancer can be traced to her use of hair straighteners. “We were doing these perm relaxers with no idea that we were giving ourselves cancer all these many years.”
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Here’s part 1 and part 2 of Dereliction of Beauty:
insideclimatenews.org/news/2611202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2711202...
And our non-profit journalism is not behind a paywall!
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As a Black woman, a breast cancer survivor and a journalist, I have often wondered about the connection between beauty products and public health. I am so thankful to Inside Climate News and USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism for supporting me while I explore this important question
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