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

A thick haze blankets New York City as smoke from Canadian wildfires impacts air quality in the region on Aug. 5, 2025. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

Climate-Fueled Wildfires and Dust Storms Drove Up Air Pollution Around the World Last Year

By Kiley Bense, Keerti Gopal

Border buoys are installed in the Rio Grande as it runs through Brownsville on March 6. Credit: Michael Gonzalez

Border Communities Remain in the Dark About Federal Government’s Billion-Dollar Buoy Project

By Martha Pskowski

The photo show workers in hard hats and reflective vests in a trench with equipment.

Replacing Toxic Lead Pipes Could Drive Job Creation in Illinois, Report Finds

By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

Paraecologists Olger Kitiar (left) and Jhostin Antún eagerly check a camera trap tucked into the forest on Maikiuants territory on Nov. 29, 2025.

In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science

Story and photos by Katie Surma

Environmental activists reoccupy the Atlanta Forest as it was scheduled to be developed into a police training center on March 4, 2023. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Courts’ Fight Over ‘Cop City’ Protests Raises Questions About Terrorism Laws and Environmental Activism 

By Jade Yeban

Kathy Love, director of the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, speaks during a discussion highlighting the consequences of longwall coal mining at Oak Grove High School in August 2024. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Two Years After Fatal Explosion, Alabama Mine Regulator ‘Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse,’ Resident Says

By Lee Hedgepeth

A dengue fever patient walks inside the Sergio Bernales National Hospital in the outskirts of Lima, Peru, on April 17, 2024. Credit: Juan Carlos Cisneros/AFP via Getty Images

A New Study Links a Record-Breaking Tropical Disease Outbreak in Peru to Climate-Driven Extreme Weather

By Liza Gross

Power line crews with Georgia Power work at a home in Savannah on Aug. 6, 2024. Credit: Megan Varner/Getty Images

Georgia Hasn’t Had a Consumer Advocate for Electric Ratepayers for 18 Years

By Ryan Krugman

The Mi Vida gas plant is seen on March 18 in the Permian Basin of West Texas near Pecos. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Senator Launches Investigation Into Methane Pollution in the Permian Basin

By Phil McKenna

Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, where ConocoPhillips operates the Alpine Field. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A pipe discharges liquid waste from Tesla’s lithium refinery plant into a ditch on Feb. 13 in Robstown, Texas. Credit: Steve Ray/Nueces County Drainage District No. 2

South Texas Officials Didn’t Know Tesla Was Discharging Lithium Refinery Wastewater Into Local Ditch

By Arcelia Martin

Tim and Deborah Mabe are among the plaintiffs suing Stokes County. Their land, in the family for generations, abuts the data center property. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In N.C., Stokes County Approves a Data Center Rezoning, Triggering a Citizens’ Lawsuit

By Lisa Sorg

A worker picks leaves from the conveyor belt of a harvester during grape harvest on a vineyard in Lodi, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2025. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights

By Liza Gross

The industrial landscape of Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood. Credit: Michael Lofenfeld via Getty Images

The Fight Over New Jersey’s Tough Environmental Justice Law Is Now in the Courts

By Emilie Lounsberry

Corpus Christi City Manager Peter Zanoni speaks during a City Council meeting on Tuesday. Source: City of Corpus Christi livestream

Corpus Christi Cuts Timeline to Disaster as Abbott Issues Emergency Orders

By Dylan Baddour

Corpus Christi’s largest remaining reservoir, Lake Texana, is currently 55 percent full and projected to hit 30 percent this summer. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Water Shortage May Hit Corpus Christi Within Weeks

By Dylan Baddour

Curious Holstein dairy cows feed on silage in a freestall barn at a large California dairy.

There Are 10 Million Tons of Manure Missing in California

Seth Millstein, Sentient

Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaks during the Green Growth Summit in Brussels on Monday. Credit: Michael Chia/UNFCCC

Iran War Shows That Doubling Down on Fossil Fuels Is ‘Delusional,’ UN Climate Chief Says

By Keerti Gopal

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