Nepal, May 1 -- "We Live the Crisis": Women's Voices from Rural Nepal on the Uneven Burden of Climate Change

In recent months, I traveled across seven provinces of Nepal-some so remote that our climate awareness event was the first of its kind in the area. These were open, honest, and at times painful conversations with women who are living the climate crisis in their bodies, their fields, and their everyday lives.

What I heard wasn't new in terms of science, but it was powerful in terms of lived truth. And that truth is this: the impacts of climate change are not gender neutral. Women in rural Nepal are being hit the hardest, and in ways that remain invisible to most policies and platforms.

"Our daughters are menstruating earlier. It ...