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Stories of Urban Climate Change: Air

After witnessing toxic fumes pouring from a nearby factory, Virginia Kilgore decides to take action, and while working in Delhi, Sai Krishna Dammalapati is baffled by how unfazed people seem by the city’s severe air pollution.

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Stories of Urban Climate Change: Air
Stories of Urban Climate Change: Air

After witnessing toxic fumes pouring from a nearby factory, Virginia Kilgore decides to take action, and while working in Delhi, Sai Krishna Dammalapati is baffled by how unfazed people seem by the city’s severe air pollution.

Stories of Urban Climate Change: Fire
Stories of Urban Climate Change: Fire

When wildfires erupt in Los Angeles, Tracy Drain’s work on the Europa Clipper mission is suddenly at risk, and as a child, Victoria Dinov lives through a historic wildfire that stays with her long after the ashes settle.

Stories of Urban Climate Change: Water
Stories of Urban Climate Change: Water

While researching flood risk and insurance costs in California, international student Hannah Melville-Rea is shocked by just how unprotected many people are, and Patricia Schuba is determined to stop coal and waste pollution from contaminating the groundwater in Labadie, Missouri.

Stories of Urban Climate Change: Earth
Stories of Urban Climate Change: Earth

While filming a wildlife documentary, filmmaker Mae Dorricott begins to notice just how profoundly human activity is shaping animal behaviour, and for Christy Marsden, climate change always felt like a distant threat until a patch of ice brought it sharply into focus.

Best of Story Collider: Women in Science
Best of Story Collider: Women in Science

Alison Williams' blossoming passion for chemistry is sidetracked by a professor's thoughtless comment, and climate scientist Sarah Myhre becomes embroiled in conflict after speaking out against a senior scientist's problematic statements about climate change.

Chorea: Stories about science and dance
Chorea: Stories about science and dance

Learning a modern version of her childhood Indian dances puts Sumitra Mattai’s brain and body to the test, and when people doubt that dance can empower girls to pursue STEM careers, Yamilée Toussaint sets out to prove them wrong.

Where Does It Hurt: Stories about the importance of compassion in healthcare
Where Does It Hurt: Stories about the importance of compassion in healthcare

After feeling betrayed by the very systems meant to protect her, Karen McCaffrey chooses to become the advocate for survivors she once needed herself, and in her twenties, Mary Cyn endures a string of gynecological problems, and the lack of compassion she encounters in medical settings motivates her into changing how medical students learn patient care.

Tresses: Stories about the power of hair
Tresses: Stories about the power of hair

Being half Navajo and half white, Carissa Sherman turns to genetics to better understand her identity. As she questions where she belongs, her hair becomes a quiet but powerful marker of how she sees herself, and growing up, Ria Spencer believed “good hair” meant long hair but when a medical condition forces her to shave it all off, she’s challenged to rethink what that belief really means.

Best of Story Collider: Navigating Whiteness
Best of Story Collider: Navigating Whiteness

As a science teacher, Mamoudou N'Diaye was supposed to have all the answers, but he struggles to explain being Black in the USA, and Rhonda Key fights to be taken seriously by her white co-workers and students when she gets a job at a middle school.

Like Me: Stories about finding representation in STEM
Like Me: Stories about finding representation in STEM

Graduate student Angelique Allen doesn’t fully understand the strong connection she feels to the 2015 animated film Home, and growing up in segregated 1950s Baltimore, Ken Phillips learns early who society says he can’t be.

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