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

Alabama Limestone Quarry Settles Lawsuit Over Dust, Noise

The settlement requires the quarry to set buffer zones around houses or buildings, notify residents before blasting and stop operating at night or on Sundays.

By Dennis Pillion

An aerial view of night operations at a limestone quarry in Belle Mina, Ala. The quarry operators agreed to mitigate dust, noise and light pollution in a settlement agreement with nearby residents. Credit: Southern Environmental Law Center
Delegates from around the world attend the opening plenary of the latest round of climate negotiations on June 8 in Bonn, Germany. Credit: Lara Murillo/UNFCCC

United Nations Climate Talks in Bonn Marked by ‘Sidestepping and Stalling’

By Bob Berwyn

A fisherman paddles in front of commercial fishing boats off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. Credit: John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images

How Shining a Light on Ships Could Help Solve Illegal Fishing

By Johnny Sturgeon

A bus pulls out from the entrance of Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades on June 1. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Detainees Moved Out of Alligator Alcatraz, ICE Confirms

By Amy Green

Cows graze in a deforested area of the Colombian Amazon. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images

Colombia Passes First-Ever National Law Requiring Beef to Be Traced Back to Its Origins

By Georgina Gustin

Members of the Lumberton Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Las Amigas Incorporated march along Britt Road on April 18 in St. Pauls, N.C., against the Robeson County Landfill expansion. Credit: Morgan Casey

‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

By Morgan Casey, Lisa Sorg

A sloth is seen at the Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center in Alajuela, Costa Rica, on March 16. Credit: Ezequiel Becerra/AFP via Getty Images

A Sloth Exhibitor Shut Down by New York Wants a Florida Comeback—and Florida Licensed Him

By Katie Surma

Autumn Gillard has been fighting to protect the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument since 2017. Credit: Raymond Chee

Utah National Monument Survives Attempt to Rescind its Management Plan

By Wyatt Myskow

Air Force One departs from Joint Base Andrews in Prince Georges County, Maryland, on Sept. 11, 2025. Credit: Austin DeSisto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Months After a Jet Fuel Leak, No Agency Tested Waters Downstream of Piscataway Creek. So Community Groups Are Doing It Themselves.

By Aman Azhar

The loggerhead sea turtle, Bowser, was brought to the Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park’s CARE Center for rehabilitation on June 7 after being hooked on a fishing line. Credit: Gulfarium CARE Center

A Massive Volunteer Network in Florida Works to Save Endangered Sea Turtles

By Dennis Pillion

Botanist Beronda Montgomery is the author of “When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy.” Credit: Melissa Blackall/Radcliffe Institute

‘Their Breath Was Captured in the Tree’

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Researchers look at an air quality monitor on April 10, 2025, in Imperial Beach, Calif. Credit: Ana Ramirez/The San Diego Union-Tribune via Getty Images

Trump’s EPA Unlawfully Cancelled Environmental Justice Grants, Judge Rules

By Lauren Dalban

A pit in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas, where the Railroad Commission plugged a wellbore that was previously gushing thousands of gallons of wastewater a minute. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

An Old Well Gushed Waste, Not Oil, in a Small West Texas Town

By Martha Pskowski

Hayneville residents gather in a middle school now closed due to a declining local population for an open house with developers of a proposed hyperscale data center campus. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

On the Historic Route From Selma to Montgomery, an AI Cloud Looms

By Lee Hedgepeth

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, where toxic chemicals was detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina Sues Chemical Company for Polluting a Nearby Creek

By Lisa Sorg

Diane Wilson (right), Sharon Lavigne (left) and Nancy Bui display pictures of Vietnamese activists jailed for demanding reparations over the Formosa Plastics’ 2016 chemical spill disaster on May 28 in Taipei. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

Fishermen prepare their nets in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. Credit: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images

America Is Policing Foreign Waters, but Gutting Domestic Protections

By Johnny Sturgeon

A worker walks past molten steel at a factory in Huai'an, China, on July 22, 2025. Credit: CN-STR/AFP via Getty Images

Driven by Steel Production, China’s Belt and Road Construction Carries a Heavy Climate Cost

By Phil McKenna

A NOAA crew retrieves an Ocean Station Papa buoy in the Gulf of Alaska. Credit: Laura Dwyer/NOAA

Alaskans Reel From the Loss of National Science Foundation Ocean-Monitoring Instruments

By Paula Dobbyn

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