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

Loretta Johnson stands by a water well on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. According to an EPA report, the well produces water tainted with arsenic. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Yuji Iwasawa (center), president of the International Court of Justice, issues the first advisory opinion on States’ legal obligations to address climate change in The Hague on Wednesday. Credit: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

Governments Are Legally Required to Address Climate Change, Top Global Court Says

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma

Members of the Afro-descendant community in mangrove roots in Colombia. Credit: Conservation International

Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says

By Katie Surma

Fuels management specialists for the Chequamegon-Nicolet Nation Forest move a downed tree to open a path for vehicles on May 29 in Wisconsin. Credit: Eric A. Britton/USDA Forest Service

Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests

By Sarah Mattalian

People fish across from the oil refineries inside the Texas City industrial complex in Texas on May 4, 2021. Credit: Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Dismantling of EPA’s Scientific Research Arm Fulfills Key Chemical Industry Goal

By Marianne Lavelle

A farmer harvests cocoa beans from the fruit in Ghana on Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: Christina Peters/picture alliance via Getty Images

Weather Extremes Caused by Climate Change Are Driving Up Food Prices, a New Report Says

By Georgina Gustin

EPA workers participate in a demonstration at Angell Memorial Square in Boston on March 25. Credit: Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

EPA Extends Leave and Demands Answers From Employees Who Signed a ‘Declaration of Dissent’

By Lisa Sorg

Klie Kliebert (right) works with the Imagine Water Works team on plans for the climate justice nonprofit’s sanctuary farm in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. Credit: Audrey Gray/Inside Climate News

Out in the Storm

By Audrey Gray

Search and rescue workers dig through debris after flash flooding on July 6 in Hunt, Texas. Credit: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

What Trump’s Budget Cuts Mean for Disaster Preparedness

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

The south and west reaches of Lonesome Lake are visibly shallow in this July 2025 photo taken while descending from Jackass Pass. Long reputed to have quality issues related to human waste, the Shoshone National Forest lake is being examined for an E. coli impairment after regulators initially detected fecal bacteria levels several hundred times more than is believed to be safe. Credit: Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile

Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s National Survey for Fecal Contamination

By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile

People try to stay cool during a heat wave on June 25 in New York City as temperatures hit the high 90s. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Weeks After a Heat Wave Baked the US, Democrats Push to Declare Heat a Major Disaster

By Kiley Price

An offshore oil drilling rig is seen in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Former BP Spokesperson Is Now EPA Region 6 Chief of Staff

By Martha Pskowski

A view of Honduras' capital city, Tegucigalpa. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz/Inside Climate News

One Small Country, Nearly $20 Billion in Corporate Claims

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

Global leaders are gathered in Kingston, Jamaica, for several weeks this month to debate a set of regulations that would govern future deep sea mining activities. Credit: Andrés Felipe Carvajal Gómez for IISD/ENB

Deep Sea Mining Negotiations Resume Amid Industry Pushback and Environmental Alarm

By Teresa Tomassoni

A man pushes a gurney covered with a body bag along a sidewalk

30 Years After Chicago’s Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem

By Keerti Gopal

An aerial view of the xAI data center, called Colossus, in Memphis, Tenn. Credit: Steve Jones, Flight by Southwings for SELC

In South Memphis, Elon Musk’s Colossus Operated Gas Turbines Without Appropriate Permits, Residents and Activists Claim

By Jennifer Ugwa

Workers exit the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery on May 10, 2022, in Texas City, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

OSHA Just Reduced the Value of a Worker’s Life

By Liza Gross

The Eno River runs through west Hillsborough and along the River Walk downtown. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Before Tropical Depression Chantal Swamped Hillsborough, the Town Had Been Counting on FEMA

By Lisa Sorg

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