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

Ten Million Corals Are in the Path of a Federal Dredging Project in Florida

Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., including some of the only remaining endangered staghorn corals that survived a record-breaking heat wave.

By Teresa Tomassoni

Shedd Aquarium scientist Andy Kough measures a queen conch at a survey site near Port Everglades. Credit: Aubri Keith
People walk through rain showers and cold temperatures in Philadelphia on Nov. 19. Credit: Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)

The Real Pain of Climate Change Is Easy to Feel, but Increasingly Difficult to Study

By Chad Small

People walk across a road amid dense smog in Lahore on Dec. 12. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

In Lahore’s Smog Season, This Gen Z Doctor Is Centering Climate Change

By Keerti Gopal

Jay Carlisle, research director at Boise State University’s Intermountain Bird Observatory, walks through the burned forest near Lucky Peak station. Credit: Heidi Ware Carlisle

An Idaho Bird Research Station Rises From the Ashes of a Wildfire

By William von Herff

A general view of the New York is seen behind the Hackensack River alongside wetlands in Secaucus, New Jersey, on Jan. 11, 2021. Credit: Islam Dogru/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

As Trump Rolls Back Protections For Wetlands, New Jersey Maintains a Higher Standard

By Rambo Talabong

A shellfish harvester pours out small littleneck clams from a net at the Winnegance oyster farm on the New Meadows River in West Bath, Maine. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Maine’s Shellfish Harvesters Are Caught up in Climate-Related Closures

By Ben Seal

Fred the handyman at the Shiloh Commons installs a new water filter in a residence January 21, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. The city's water supply had been contaminated by lead after a switch from Lake Huron to the Flint river as a source in April 2014. Credit: Sarah Rice/Getty Images

Michigan’s Other Water Crisis: PFAS’s Prevalence in Private Wells

By K.R. Callaway

Plant Barry’s toxic coal ash lagoon is more than a mile across at some points and is surrounded by the Mobile River, located just feet from its edge. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk

By Lee Hedgepeth

Zak and Lena Kendall perform onstage during GoldenOak’s album release show at Portland House of Music and Events. Credit: Ryan Flanagan

A Maine Folk Band Finds Its Voice in a Warming World

By Ryan Krugman

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

A view of the south branch of the Chicago River with downtown Chicago in the background. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

After a Hard Year for Environmental Justice, Chicago Communities Are Picking Up the Pieces

By Amber X. Chen

Alabama Gov. George Wallace speaks during his 1963 inaugural address. Credit: Getty Images

How George Wallace and Bull Connor Set the Stage for Alabama’s Sky-High Electric Rates

By Dennis Pillion

COP28 in Dubai unfolded amid spectacle and conspicuous wealth in 2023, as fossil-fuel power dominated the setting of the world’s largest climate summit and global emissions continued to rise.

Scenes From an Unfolding Climate Drama

Story and photos by Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of Manville, N.J., after Hurricane Ida causes flash flooding in the area on Sept. 2, 2021. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

A New Jersey Buyout Program for Flood-Prone Homes Is a National Model

By Emilie Lounsberry

A serviceberry blooming. Credit: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images

Lessons on Scaling Gift Economies—and How It Can Help the Planet

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

From left: Scott Vlaun, Renee Igo, Tamra Benson and Ania Wright talk around a table at the Center for an Ecology-Based Economy in Norway, Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Nonprofit Center Works with Rural Maine Towns to Prepare for and Protect Against Extreme Weather

By Sydney Cromwell

Love Sanchez, founder of Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend, stands at McGee Beach near downtown Corpus Christi in 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a Ford Pro Accelerate event on Sept. 3 in Detroit. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

As the Whitmer Administration Enters Its Final Year, Environmental Advocates Lament Wasted Opportunities

By Tom Perkins

New Jersey environmental activists protest in August against Transco’s 32,000-horsepower compressor station proposed for Somerset County’s Franklin Township, New Jersey, part of the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline. Courtesy Charlie Kratovil.

Will New Jersey’s Environmental Regulators Approve Transco’s NESE Pipeline After Rejecting it Twice?

By Raeanne Raccagno

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