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Justice & Health

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

Trump Administration Moves to Weaken Federal Protections for Waterways and Wetlands

Environmental groups warn the proposal to change the definition of “waters of the United States” would eliminate crucial safeguards for “countless” bodies of water.

By Aidan Hughes

 EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (center) signs a proposed rule in Washington, D.C., on Monday that would revise the definition of “waters of the United States,” scaling back which bodies of water are subject to federal protections. Credit: Aidan Hughes/Inside Climate News
An Indigenous Guna scientist monitors a nesting leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Armila, Panama. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

Deadly in Small Doses: New Research Shows the Lethal Effects of Ingested Plastic on Marine Animals

By Teresa Tomassoni
Ecuadoreans gather at a polling center in Manglaralto on Sunday to vote on a referendum proposed by President Daniel Noboa to overhaul Ecuador’s constitution. Credit: Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images

Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution

By Katie Surma
Deborah Linn lives near the construction site of a new McBride waste facility for oil and gas disposal in Elysian Fields, Texas. Credit: Shelby Tauber

Pitted Against Waste

By Martha Pskowski, Lise Olsen
Chicago’s Historic Boulevards are identified by these distinctive signs found across the system. Credit: Yiannis Mastoras/Inside Climate News

What Chicago’s Boulevards Reveal about Community, Climate Change and Inequality

By Yiannis Mastoras
Zuly Rivera, defensora del agua y coordinadora juvenil del pueblo Nasa, en el río Caliyacu en Mocoa, Colombia.

La Fiebre del Cobre Llega al Amazonas

Por Dylan Baddour, fotos por Tom Laffay
The sun bears down on the Walk of Champions outside Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums

By Olivia McMurrey, Lee Hedgepeth
Zuly Rivera, a water defender and youth coordinator for the Nasa pueblo, stands at the Caliyacu River in Mocoa, Colombia.

Global Rush for Copper Hits the Amazon

Story by Dylan Baddour, photos by Tom Laffay
Pamela Rayane Fernandes holding a tombstone of her 5-year-old daughter Emanuelle, who died in Bento Rodriguez, Brazil, following the collapse of the Fundão mine dam in the mountains of southeast Brazil nine years ago. Credit: Douglas Magno/AFP via Getty Images

Australian Company BHP Found Liable for Damages in One of Brazil’s Worst Mining Disasters

By Blanca Begert
The Johnson Tract is a private parcel with a worker camp and airstrip, surrounded by the vast Lake Clark National Park in Alaska. Credit: Max Graham/Northern Journal

A Patch of Indigenous Land, Rich in Metals, Pits Prominent Miner and Native Owners Against Conservationists

By Max Graham, Northern Journal
The photo show workers in hard hats and reflective vests in a trench with equipment.

Lawmakers Press EPA for $3B in Stalled Lead Pipe Replacement Funds

By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
A specimen of the Birmingham darter documented by Yale biologist Thomas Near and his research team. Credit: Konstantinos Andriotis

A Proposed Alabama Data Center Faces New Hurdles: A ‘Road to Nowhere’ and the Birmingham Darter

By Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion
Expert marine mammal researchers used high-powered binoculars called “big eyes” to search for the vaquita porpoises, which are typically hard to see due to their small size and shy nature. Credit: Paula Mosa

Rare Sightings of Critically Endangered Vaquita Spark Cautious Optimism About the Species’ Ability to Recover

By Teresa Tomassoni
Andrea Crosta, executive director of Earth League International, has been investigating the illegal totoaba trade since 2018 as part of his organization’s Operation Fake Gold. Credit: Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Inside the Fight to Stop the Illegal Trade Driving the Vaquita Porpoise Toward Extinction

By Teresa Tomassoni
Security personnel clash with protesters as they storm the venue during the COP30 climate conference on Tuesday in Belém, Brazil. Credit: Olga Leiria/AFP via Getty Images

Built to Fail: Rules at UN Climate Talks Favor the Status Quo, Not Progress

By Bob Berwyn
COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago (center) speaks during a press meeting at the climate conference in Belém, Brazil, on Monday. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

Poor Air, Glaring Lights and Stress Could Hobble COP30 Climate Talks

By Bob Berwyn
Residents cultivate a Creole garden on land contaminated with chlordecone, a toxic pesticide, in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe. Credit: Mathilde Augustin/Inside Climate News

Two Caribbean Islands Seek Justice From France for Pesticide Poisoning

By Mathilde Augustin
The entrance to an xAI data center is seen under construction on April 25 in Memphis, Tenn. Credit: Brandon Dill/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘It’s Not Too Late’: New Cornell Study Maps the Environmental Cost of AI and How Policy Could Limit the Damage

By Carl David Goette-Luciak
Hannah Livesay, biologist at the Grand River Mosquito Control District, points out the characteristic white markings of an Aedes aegypti mosquito shown under a microscope at her lab in Grand Junction, Colo.

A Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Landed in the Rocky Mountains Where It Historically Couldn’t Survive

Story by Erin Douglas, photos by Isabella Escobedo

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