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

What Will It Take To End the Slaughter of Dolphins in the Faroe Islands?

For decades, activists have fought to end Faroese dolphin hunts, known as the grindadráp. But hundreds are still killed each year.

By Teresa Tomassoni

On May 27, more than 700 pilot whales and other dolphins were killed in three different community-organized hunts, known as the grindadráp, in the Faroe Islands. Credit: Sea Shepherd
People ride past a drain clogged with plastic waste along a roadside in Karachi, Pakistan, on Aug. 24, 2025. Credit: Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images

Why Plastics Have Overtaken the Planet

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

People walk along Lake Michigan as smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets Chicago on Thursday. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Wildfire Smoke Chokes Eastern and Midwestern Cities as Air Pollution Soars to Dangerously High Levels

By Phil McKenna, Keerti Gopal

The port city of Mobile, Ala., sits at the head of Mobile Bay and is a key link in shipping goods in and out of the U.S. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Will Congress Ban ‘Mud Dumping’ in Mobile Bay?

By Dennis Pillion

Tribes and Environmental Groups Push Back on Trump Rule to Diminish Habitat Protections for Endangered Species

By Kiley Price

Tanner Mansell hand-feeds a bull shark off of the coast of Jupiter, Fla. Credit: Danny Lomas

A Shark-Feeding Ban Exposes a Deeper Fight Over Florida’s Changing Seas

By Kate Waxman

A mosquito is tested for the presence of West Nile virus at the Harris County Mosquito Survey facility in Houston. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

As Climate Change Expands Mosquito Ranges, Better Monitoring Is Key to Preventing Disease

By Madeline Shaw

The Delaware River flows through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania border. Credit: Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Fracking Ban in the Delaware River Basin Survives a Republican Challenge (For Now)

By Jon Hurdle

A recent vote delays the decision on how to recognize tribes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement until December. Credit: Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Bay Program Delays Decision on Tribes’ Place in Chesapeake Agreement

By Aman Azhar

A worker extracts a drill core at a copper mining project in the Andes mountain range of Calingasta, Argentina, on April 21. Credit: Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images

AI, Defense Spending Fuel the Rush to Mine Minerals, Report Says

By Katie Surma

A farmworker tends to a farm in Homestead, Fla., on April 25, 2025. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

The Dire Lengths Florida Farmworkers Go to Keep Working in ‘Scorching’ Heat

By Amy Green

A fisherman unloads Atlantic mackerel in Brest, France, on Dec. 11, 2025. Credit: Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images

Europe Opens a New Front in the Mackerel Wars

By Johnny Sturgeon

Ben Brown participates in a rally opposing a hyperscale AI data center proposed in western Palm Beach County on June 27. Credit: Kate Waxman/Inside Climate News

An AI Data Center at the Edge of the Everglades Heads to a Decisive Vote

By Kate Waxman

Mike Watters stands in a granular activated carbon filtration system that Chemours was required to give him after his well in Grays Creek was contaminated with several types of PFAS. Credit: Mehmet Demirci/Inside Climate News

A Key Forever Chemicals Lawsuit Settles Out of Court in North Carolina

By Lisa Sorg

Steam billows from Valero’s West Refinery outside Corpus Christi on April 29. Cooling towers at industrial facilities can evaporate more than 1,000 gallons of water per minute. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses Subsidized Industrial Water Bills for Years, Officials Say

By Neena Satija, Dylan Baddour

Drought and intruding salt water helped turn this former rice field in Gambia into a “wet desert.” Credit: Phred Dvorak/Inside Climate News

In Gambia, Salt Water Intrusion Is the Leading Edge of Climate Change

By Phred Dvorak

People and rescuers search for victims amid debris of a demolished building on June 27 in La Guaira, Venezuela, after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the region. Credit: Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images

Recent Earthquakes Expose Problems with Venezuela’s Disaster Preparedness and Response, Scientists Say

By Avril Silva

A Revolutionary War reenactor drinks water in the shade near Independence Hall during high temperatures on July 3 in Philadelphia. Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images

As It Celebrates the Nation’s Past, Philadelphia Braces for a Hotter Future

By Nina Sablan, Daniel Perrin

Energy Fuels’ Pinyon Plain uranium mine, located a few miles from Grand Canyon National Park and inside Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Arizona Regulators Are Raising Contaminant Limits for a Uranium Mine With an Arsenic Problem

By Wyatt Myskow, Maya McDaniel

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