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

Chris Hopkins (right), who organized opposition to the asphalt plant, attends the Aug. 27 Forsyth County Commissioners meeting. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

How Grassroots Opposition to a New Asphalt Plant Was Infiltrated by an Outside Operative

By Lisa Sorg

Maya Hart, one of millions of Southeast Texas residents who fled their homes during Hurricane Rita in September 2005, with the Galveston Bay behind her. Miles-long traffic jams, gas shortages and a humanitarian crisis cemented the Rita debacle as arguably the worst-executed mass evacuation in American history. Credit: Antranik Tavitian/Public Health Watch

Hurricanes Routinely Threaten the Texas Coast. But Mass Evacuations Pose Risks of Their Own.

By Elena Bruess, Public Health Watch

Dolce, one of the surviving sloths from Sloth World, eats a carrot inside her enclosure at Central Florida Zoo. Credit: Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens

Florida Proposes Stronger Protections for Sloths After Dozens Died at a Tourism Attraction

By Kiley Price, Katie Surma

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announces a settlement with Chemours over its forever chemicals pollution during a press conference on Thursday in Cumberland County. Credit: Matthew Wonderly/CityView

Chemours to Pay $455 Million for Fayetteville Works Contamination

By Morgan Casey, Lisa Sorg, Paul Woolverton

The crop duster spraying a field is flying low in the direction of the photographer

Industry Interests Spent Big Money to Stop California From Banning PFAS Pesticides

By Liza Gross

Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Ecuador’s Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Kury shake hands after a press conference in Quito on Wednesday. Credit: Dolores Ochoa/AFP via Getty Images

The US Wants Minerals from South America. Its Environmental Defenders Fear What Comes Next.

By Katie Surma

New Yorkers shop for air conditioners during a heat wave in Brooklyn on July 28, 2023. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

For Many New Yorkers, Home Is No Escape From the Heat

By Lauren Dalban

Fish swim around coral in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Credit: Greg McFall/NOAA

NOAA Fisheries Takes A ‘Sharp Turn Away From Science’

By Johnny Sturgeon

A Georgia Power truck sits in an Atlanta neighborhood as crews work in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 27, 2024. Credit: Megan Varner/Getty Images

The Cost of Keeping Cool: Georgia Power Customers Struggle With Summer Bills

By Ryan Krugman

Machinery sits idle at a quarry in Gorham, Maine. Credit: John Patriquin/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

The Winners and Losers of Maine’s Race to Armor Its Shoreline Against Climate Change

By Emmett Gartner

The runway at the Hillsboro Airport in Oregon. Credit: Port of Portland

Elevated Levels of Lead Surround Local Oregon Airports 

By Claire Barber

A man looks out at the floodwater surrounding his home on June 12, 2024, in Hollywood, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

As Extreme Weather Worsens, Black and Hispanic Homeowners Are Paying More for Insurance

By Amy Green

A sign warns of radiation danger at the site of an abandoned uranium mine on Navajo Nation land in Mariano Lake, N.M. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Mexico Bans Uranium Leasing on State Lands

By Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

A marker for an Energy Transfer petroleum pipeline stands near the Delaware River in Upper Makefield Township, Pa. Credit: Tracie Van Auken/Inside Climate News

A Pipeline Giant That Spilled Jet Fuel in Pennsylvania Is Trying to Weaken a Clean Water Law

By Marianne Lavelle

Washington, D.C., Fire and EMS transport a National Mall visitor as temperatures reach above 100 degrees Fahrenheit on July 3. Credit: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Can Studying Heat Waves in Real Time Save Lives?

By Keerti Gopal

Workers repair a water main break that flooded streets and homes in southwest Detroit in February 2025. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Underserved Communities Again Ask Courts to Restore Justice Grant Funding

By Amy Green

A view of fish cages at a salmon farm in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Credit: Colin McPherson/Getty Images

Farmed Salmon May Not Be as Nutritious as It Once Was, New Research Suggests

By Georgina Gustin

during an Indigenous climate protest in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 8, 2022. Credit: Craig Hudson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Trump Rules Would Limit State Power to Block Pipelines, Energy Projects

By Marianne Lavelle

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