MAG: ‘Climate change threatens eye health’ – ‘Cataracts, pink eye & other ocular disorders linked to heat’
By Marc Morano
May 13, 2025
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-climate-change-threatens-eye-healthKnowable Mag – By Sanket Jain
How climate change threatens eye health – Cataracts, pink eye and other ocular disorders are linked to heat, air pollution and higher UV exposure
Excerpt: For five months in 2017, farmworker Alka Kamble experienced blurred vision in one of her eyes but didn’t consult an ophthalmologist. “I couldn’t afford it, and neither did I have the time, as I had to work long hours to make ends meet,” she says.
Then Kamble saw a flyer for a free eye check-up clinic near her home in Jambhali village, in India’s Maharashtra state. The doctor there suggested immediate cataract surgery and said that overexposure to solar radiation had likely contributed to her deteriorating eyesight.
Kamble, now 55, had for decades worked long hours in the scorching heat without sunglasses or shade. Conditions have worsened as heat waves have intensified in India, she adds. “The heat has become so unbearable that farmers are finding it difficult even to work for two hours in the field during summers.” …
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/05/13/mag-climate-change-threatens-eye-health-cataracts-pink-eye-other-ocular-disorders-are-linked-to/
