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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.

A Year After Floodwaters Swept Away an Alaskan Native Village, Residents Remain in Limbo

Parallel efforts to rebuild and relocate the storm-ravaged village of Kwigillingok have stalled, leaving evacuees stranded far from home and frustrated.

By Olga Loginova

 Debris from structures destroyed by Typhoon Halong litters the landscape near Kwigillingok, Alaska. Credit: Olga Loginova/Inside Climate News
A researcher examines a sediment sample to identify microplastics in Long Beach, Calif. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Why Microplastics Are So Dangerous for Human Health

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth
U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons with the Thunderbirds squadron sit at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on July 3. Credit: Tylan Alicea/U.S. Air Force

Lawmakers and Regulators Press Air Force Over Continuing Pollution From Joint Base Andrews Fuel Spill

By Aman Azhar
The construction site of an Amazon data center in Gilroy, Calif., on Oct. 25. Credit: Andrej Sokolow/dpa via Getty Images

Powerful Interests Aim to Weaken California’s Landmark Environmental Law

By Liza Gross
The evaporation pond at the Pinyon Plain Mine in Arizona. Credit: Blake McCord

Most Wells Around the Grand Canyon With High Arsenic Levels Are at Uranium Mine, New Analysis Shows

By Wyatt Myskow
IDE regional sales director Mark Ellison attends a board meeting of the Nueces River Authority on Sept. 25. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

How Texas Could End Up Paying an Israeli Company Billions for Water

By Dylan Baddour, Arcelia Martin
Rescue workers help a resident affected by flash floods in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on Aug 26. Credit: Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images

The Cost of Lagging Global Climate Action Is Lost Lives and Poor Health

By Keerti Gopal
In 2018, thawing manure ran off of neighboring fields where it had been spread, polluting the stream on Gordon Garrison’s property in Estherville, Iowa.

Amid Iowa’s Water Crisis, Factory Farms Get a Pass on Environmental Permitting

Story by Anika Jane Beamer, photos by Zach Spindler-Krage
Chickens stand in a henhouse at Sunrise Farms on February 18, 2025 in Petaluma, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan via Getty Images

The Locations of North Carolina’s Industrial Poultry Farms Have Been a Secret—Until Now

By Lisa Sorg
An inactive space shuttle main engine test location at the former Rocketdyne facility in the Santa Susana Mountains above Simi Valley in 2015. (Photo by Anacleto Rapping/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Boeing’s Demolition of a California Nuclear Testing Facility Has Nearby Families Worried About Cancer

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz
A canoer passes along the Hillsborough River among the office buildings downtown in Tampa, Florida, on Jan. 22, 2012. Credit: Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Researchers Find Widespread PFAS Contamination in Florida Waterways

By Amy Green
Farmers protest the World Bank and IMF at the organizations' meetings in Bangkok last week. They're sitting at a table with signs; some show "World Bank" and "IMF" crossed out.

Farmers and Advocates Say the Global Food System Is Failing—and Its Financiers Are to Blame

By Georgina Gustin
A domed roof is installed during construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station near Bridgwater in southwest England on July 17, 2025. Credit: Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images

Britain Rethinks Its Nature Protections to Unlock Nuclear Development

By Leana Carbonez
A sign in the town of Folkston advertises the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

The Okefenokee’s Next Chapter

By Ryan Krugman
An aerial view of deforested Amazon land used for soy cultivation in Para, Brazil. Credit: Larissa Schwedes/picture alliance via Getty Images

The World Bank Has Withdrawn a Major Loan to an Agribusiness Tied to Deforestation 

By Georgina Gustin
A panga returns at dusk beneath the cliffs of San Felipe’s Shrine of Guadalupe, home to one of the town’s unofficial and largely unregulated fishing slipways. Credit: Ryan Green/Pulitzer Center

Mexico Slashes Protections for Vaquita Porpoises

By Johnny Sturgeon
A sloth named Leeloo lays in a wooden enclosure at The Central Florida Zoo, which accepted Sloth World’s surviving animals earlier this year. Credit: Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens

Federal Lawmakers to Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Ban Wild Sloth Imports

By Kiley Price, Katie Surma
A boat works to collect oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 28, 2010, near New Orleans. Credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images

Deep-Sea Species Struggle to Recover After Deepwater Horizon Spill

By Bob Berwyn
The Thompson Callaway Spears #1 well, located on the vacant lots enclosed by black metal fencing, stands next to homes inside the Preserve at Medina subdivision in southwest San Antonio. Credit: Sam Owens/San Antonio Express-News

Abandoned Oil Well Spreads Toxic Fumes, Dread Across San Antonio Subdivision

By Martha Pskowski

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