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The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.

Attacks on Middle East Desalination Plants Highlight Risks of Near-Total Dependence on ‘Fossil Fuel Water’

Destroying the facilities is a violation of international law that could cause a humanitarian crisis in the most water-scare region on Earth. Powering the plants with electricity from fossil fuels poses additional long-term threats.

By Phil McKenna

 A water desalination plant is seen in Ras al-Khair along the Gulf coast in eastern Saudi Arabia on March 30, 2023. Credit: Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images
Petroleum storage tanks reside next to the Ferry Village neighborhood near the South Portland waterfront. Credit: Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

There’s Something in the Air in South Portland, Maine

By Ryan Krugman, Inside Climate News, and Sabrina Shankman, Boston Globe
A community memorial in Lahaina, Hawaii, honors those lost in the devastation of the 2023 Maui wildfires. Credit: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

Maui’s Mental Health Crisis Goes Far Beyond the Wildfire Burn Zone 

By Keerti Gopal
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is seen on Dec. 30, 2025. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

One Year After Green Bank’s Demise, Court Mulls Future of Grant-Based Climate Policy

By Marianne Lavelle
Heavy traffic is seen on Interstate 110 in Los Angeles on Feb. 13. Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the EPA has stopped enforcing the Clean Air Act under the second Trump administration. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Trump’s EPA Claims Strong Enforcement. But the Data Tells a Different Story.

By Wyatt Myskow, Lisa Sorg
Waorani Indigenous leaders protest oil exploitation in Yasuni National Park in front of Quito’s Constitutional Court on Aug. 20, 2025. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts

By Katie Surma
A Florida panther is seen at the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: George Gentry/USFWS

Amid Cuts to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Species Like the Florida Panther Languish

By Amy Green
Stacey Greer has been filling jugs of water from her tap in Cadiz, Ohio, to test them for contaminants. Credit: Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front

How Extreme Weather and Aging Infrastructure Led to Months of ‘Musty’ Water in One Ohio Village

By Julie Grant, The Allegheny Front
Brenda Schwab moved to Rowland in November 2024. She’s been sampling waterways in the area because she is concerned about waste from CAFOs potentially entering creeks and swamps. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina Created Complaint Systems for Its Industrialized Farms. They Don’t Work Very Well.

By Lisa Sorg
Climate activists and members of Extinction Rebellion protest in front of Citibank’s New York City office on Sept. 5, 2024. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: J. David Ake/Getty Images

‘Sound Science’ Bills Limiting State Environmental Regulations Set ‘Insurmountable Burden of Proof,’ Scientists Say

By Dennis Pillion
An aerial view of the migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Fla. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Documents Raise New Concerns Over Alligator Alcatraz’s Air and Climate Pollution

By Amy Green
EPA employees from the Boston area participate in a demonstration at Angell Memorial Square. Credit: Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts

By Marianne Lavelle, Peter Aldhous
Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu speaks to the media after an International Court of Justice session on states’ legal obligations to address climate change in The Hague, Netherlands, on July 23, 2025. Credit: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

An Island Nation in the South Pacific Leads the Latest Push for Climate Justice at the UN

By Bob Berwyn
Cows graze the land at Gut und Bösel, a more than 2,000-acre farm just outside Berlin in Alt Madlitz, Brandenburg. Credit: Aram Zucker-Scharff

On the Farm, the Hidden Climate Cost of the Broken U.S. Health Care System

By Jordan Gass-Pooré
A view of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: Bureau of Land Management

A Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah’s Redrock Country

By Georgina Gustin
Inside Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Credit: Google

Google’s Response to an Iowa County’s New Data Center Requirements? Annex the Land.

By Anika Jane Beamer
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces the continuation of congestion pricing on Jan. 5, the program’s first anniversary. Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images

Judge Rejects Trump Administration’s Plan to End NYC Congestion Pricing

By Lauren Dalban
Concertina wire was recently placed along the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas, as contractors clear vegetation along the river. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Razor Wire and Clearcutting at the Border Threaten Native Rio Grande Habitat

By Martha Pskowski

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