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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.

Beachgoers gather at Windansea Beach in San Diego on June 20. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Who Gets to Enjoy California’s Coast?

By Madeline Shaw

Migrant children who have been separated from their families are seen at the detention center in Homestead, Fla., on June 28, 2019. Credit: Rhona Wise/AFP via Getty Images

Child Migrants Exposed to Toxic Contamination at Florida Detention Site

By Amy Green

Janna Martin Gliatto moves cattle from one pasture to another near Montague, Calif. Martin Gliatto started working with Working Circle in 2022 to protect her ranch from wolves.

Can New Ranching Practices Help Cattle, Cowboys and Wolves Coexist?

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

Activists attend a rally to protect the Tapanuli orangutan in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Credit: Devi Rahman/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The World’s Rarest Great Ape Is Worse Off Than We Thought

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The radioactive phosphogypsum stack sits next to the community of Progress Village in Florida. Credit: Amy Green/Inside Climate News

A Radioactive Waste Stack Looms Beside a Segregation-Era Community—and It’s Expanding

By Amy Green

Visitors view the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell from the Carl Hayden Visitor Center on Thursday in Page, Ariz. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Federal Plan Makes Steep Colorado River Water Cuts to Arizona, California and Nevada

By Jake Bolster

Barrier islands around the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

As Trump Promotes Critical Mineral Mining, a Company Eyes the Seafloor in Coastal Virginia

By Charles Paullin

New research finds that data centers in Washington state are disproportionately located in census tracts with high proportions of people of color. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

More Than Half of Washington State’s Data Centers Are Located in Environmental Justice Areas

By Claire Barber

An aerial view of the VoltaGrid construction site next to the Severfarm data center in Covington, Ga. Credit: Michael A. Schwarz/SELC

Georgia’s First ‘Pop-Up’ Power Plant for Data Centers Faces Scrutiny

By Ryan Krugman

Workers at an EV battery recycling plant on May 16, 2023, in Weinan, China. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

China’s EV Problem: What Happens When Millions of Batteries Die?

By Andrew Liu

Aliza Karim from Miami Waterkeepers tests the water quality in the Little River on October 26, 2023, in Miami Dade County, Flordia. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Most Florida Waterways Fail Water Quality Standards as Enforcement Lags

By Madeline Shaw

Visitors swim in the water at the Cenote Xkeken near Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via Getty Images

Mexican Cenotes Are in Danger

By Andrés Muedano

At the crux of the lawsuit is the permit’s lack of “representative monitoring” to detect the illegal entrance of pollutants into ground and surface water from CAFOs. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

A New Oregon Permit for Industrial Farms Violates the Clean Water Act, Advocates Allege

By Claire Barber

A carbon capture system is seen at a plant in Heidenheim, Germany, on July 23. Credit: Stefan Puchner/picture alliance via Getty Images

ExxonMobil Uses Corporate Arbitration System to Challenge Climate Solution It Promotes

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Shirley Jackson sits for a photo in her SRO in San Francisco’s Seneca Hotel on Sixth Street. Jackson is experiencing health problems that are worsened by maintenance issues and pollution in her home. Credit: Neal Wong/San Francisco Public Press

State Vulnerability Metric Overlooks San Francisco Neighborhoods, Excluding Them From Billions in Funding

By Audrey Mei Yi Brown and Zhe Wu, San Francisco Public Press

A child looks out over Lake Michigan as smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the Chicago on July 16. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood

By Mosabber Hossain

A banner of President Donald Trump hangs from the Department of Justice headquarters on July 14 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Finn Gomez/Getty Images

DOJ’s Environmental Enforcement Has Collapsed in the Second Trump Administration, Former Attorneys Say

By Dana Drugmand

Sea lions swim in the Pacific Ocean as birds fly above near Morro Bay, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Marine Sanctuaries Face Threats of New Trump-Backed Offshore Oil Leases

By Avril Silva

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