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

Corpus Christi Water Crisis Spurs Stampede on South Texas Aquifers

Cities, towns and industrial complexes aim to quickly pump tens of millions of gallons per day in a bid to avert disaster.

By Dylan Baddour

Water levels in Bruce Mumme’s well dropped below his pump last year, leaving him without access to water for three days while he found a technician to lower his pump, which cost thousands of dollars. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News
Demonstrators march during a “Hands off the EPA” rally outside the agency’s offices in Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 22, 2025. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s Budget Proposes Massive Cuts for Climate and Environmental Programs

By Dylan Baddour

Workers survey the damage after flash floods collapsed a bridge in St. Johnsbury, Vt. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due

By Dana Drugmand, Nathaniel Eisen

Pat Parenteau worked to secure protections for the whooping crane when the “God Squad” first met 50 years ago. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (left) and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announce the EPA’s draft Contaminant Candidate List on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer

Craig Watts raised chicks on a factory farm for 20 years but left after he clashed with Perdue, the giant poultry company, over contract provisions and the welfare of the animals. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

By Lisa Sorg

The Maui County Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic in Lahaina, Hawaii. Credit: Sean Hower/Civil Beat

Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

By Keerti Gopal

Utility workers repair power lines after Hurricane Milton passed through the area on Oct. 12, 2024, in Englewood, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Florida Power & Light Profit Margins Top Other Utilities’ Nationwide, Report Says

By Amy Green

The Border Patrol has requested access to parcels in Big Bend Ranch State Park, the largest in the Texas state park system, for border wall construction. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Feds Seek Access to Three Texas State Parks for Border Wall

By Martha Pskowski

After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling 

By James Bruggers

Soybeans are unloaded from a lorry at a biodiesel complex in Santa Fe, Argentina. Credit: Eitan Abramovich/AFP via Getty Images

The Trump Administration’s New Biofuels Targets Threaten Carbon-Rich Rainforests

By Georgina Gustin

A statue of Jesus stands outside the Passionist monastery in Louisville, Ky. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

Looking to Jesus and Buddha, a Kentucky Passionist Priest Finds Hope Amid an Enveloping Global Environmental Crisis

By James Bruggers

Contractors are using explosives to carve out the side of the landmark Cristo Rey mountain that oversees two countries and three states. Credit: Gaby Velasquez/Puente News Collaborative

Blasting Begins For Border Wall On Cherished New Mexico Mountain

By Martha Pskowski

On March 20, a team of scientists from The Leatherback Project and Fundación Reina Laúd deployed the first satellite tag on an endangered leatherback sea turtle in Ecuador. Credit: Nikki Riddy (Photos taken with red light only under research permits from the Ministry of the Environment)

Scientists Deploy First Satellite Tag on a Leatherback Sea Turtle in Ecuador to Better Reveal Gaps in Ocean Protection

By Teresa Tomassoni

Richard Silliboy uses a machine to pound an ash log in his workshop. Once pounded, the log will divide into layers that can be separated and thinned into strips for basketmaking. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

The Wabanaki Basketmakers’ Plans to Save Maine’s Ash Trees

By Sydney Cromwell

Thousands of dead fish have been washing ashore the eastern coast of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea since December after a toxic marine event. Credit: Sebastian Velasquez

Toxic Ocean Crisis in Papua New Guinea Sparks Mass Marine Die-Off and Public Health Emergency

By Teresa Tomassoni

A construction crew works on Shell’s Vito platform at the Kiewit Offshore Services complex on April 6, 2022, in Ingleside, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

By Kiley Price

Bald eagles are seen at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in South Philadelphia. Credit: Matt Cohen

Avian Flu Has Killed Thousands of Birds in the U.S. Pennsylvania Is at the Epicenter.

By Kiley Bense

Poultry manure is spread as fertilizer on a northwest Iowa corn field. Nitrate from fertilizer that seeps into Iowa drinking water sources has been singled out as a potential  driver of the state’s rising cancer rates. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

Iowa’s Cancer Crisis Linked to Pesticides, PFAS, Fertilizer and Radon, Report Says

By Anika Jane Beamer

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