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Aerial view of a tailings dam-enbankment used to store byproducts of mining copper for the Minera Valle Central mining company, in Rancagua, Chile on May 31, 2019. Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images

Environmentalists in Chile Are Hoping to Replace the Country’s Pinochet-Era Legal Framework With an ‘Ecological Constitution’

By Katie Surma

Woolly monkey. Credit: Evgenia Kononova

Ecuador’s High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights

By Katie Surma

Helmine Monique Sija, about 50 years old, prepares raketa (cactus) to eat with her daughter Tolie, 10 years old, in the village of Atoby, commune of Behara, on Aug. 30, 2021. Research says climate change could make famines worse. Credit: Rijasolo/AFP via Getty Images

Complex Models Now Gauge the Impact of Climate Change on Global Food Production. The Results Are ‘Alarming’

By Georgina Gustin

John Allaire checks a trap for fish or crabs on his coastal property in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, south of Lake Charles. Credit: James Bruggers

With Biden in Europe Promising to Expedite U.S. LNG Exports, Environmentalists on the Gulf Coast Say, Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

Comeasha Stanley, Ramari Stanley and Terrell Atkinson stand near a heavily damaged apartment after Hurricane Michael passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. The hurricane hit the Florida Panhandle as a category 4 storm. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Hurricane Michael Hit the Florida Panhandle in 2018 With 155 MPH Winds. Some Black and Low-Income Neighborhoods Still Haven’t Recovered

By Jonathan Moens

Solar panels combined with generators provide electricity on Mona Island, Puerto Rico. Credit: David S. Holloway/Getty Images

Puerto Rico Is Struggling to Meet Its Clean Energy Goals, Despite Biden’s Support

By Kristoffer Tigue

Farm hands sort produce to be delivered that day as a part of a Community Supported Agriculture program. Credit: Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pandemic Connects Rural Farmers and Urban Communities

By Kiley Bense

Manjai Sah outside his house in Pir-muhammadpur village which was twice submerged by flooding. Credit: Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images

Latest IPCC Report Marks Progress on Climate Justice

By Bob Berwyn

Rescuers help a woman from a rescue boat after being evacuated from her apartment due to flood waters from the Little River as it crests from the rains caused by Hurricane Florence as it passed through the area on Sept. 18, 2018 in Spring Lake, North Carolina. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

North Carolina Hurricanes Linked to Increases in Gastrointestinal Illnesses in Marginalized Communities

By Leah Campbell

People run for cover in front of a burning house during shelling in the city of Irpin, outside Kyiv, on March 4, 2022. Credit: Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images

Activists Deplore the Human Toll and Environmental Devastation from Russia’s Unprovoked War of Aggression in Ukraine

By Katie Surma

UN Secretary-General António Guterres appears on a screen as he delivers a remote speech at the opening of a session of the UN Human Rights Council on Feb. 28, 2022 in Geneva. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

‘Delay is Death,’ said UN Chief António Guterres of the New IPCC Report Showing Climate Impacts Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts

By Bob Berwyn

Chevron's oil refinery in Richmond, California, is the state's single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and is located in a city where people of color make up more than 60 percent of the population, and nearly 15 percent of households fall below the federal poverty line. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Why Do Environmental Justice Advocates Oppose Carbon Markets? Look at California, They Say

By Kristoffer Tigue

Opponents of a metal-shredding operation have fought Mayor Lori Lightfoot since she took office almost three years ago. In this 2020 photo, demonstrators lined up near the mayor’s home. Credit: Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Mayor Slow to Act on Promises to Build Green Economy by Repurposing Polluted Industrial Sites

By Brett Chase

Researchers Say Science Skewed by Racism is Increasing the Threat of Global Warming to People of Color

By Bob Berwyn

Commuters struggle to move forward in a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Sept. 23, 2021. Credit: Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Activists Take Aim at an Expressway Project in Karachi, Saying it Will Only Heighten Climate Threats

By Zoha Tunio

Maasai homes in in Tanzania. Credit: Roger de la Harpe/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Conservation has a Human Rights Problem. Can the New UN Biodiversity Plan Solve it? 

By Katie Surma

Kevin Chang on the left) and other delegates from Hawai'i working on Motion 048, at the World Conservation Congress in Marseille. Credit: Audrey Gray

Nature’s Say: How Voices from Hawai’i Are Reframing the Climate Conversation 

By Audrey Gray

Maya van Rossum (second from left), the leader of the green amendment movement, attends the Walking 4 Climate rally outside the New Mexico State Capitol with New Mexico legislators and community members on Jan. 17, 2022. Credit: Green Amendment For the Generations

New Mexico Could Be the Fourth State to Add a Green Amendment to Its Constitution, But Time Is Short

By Aydali Campa

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