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

People walk through New York City’s Central Park as smoke from wildfires in Canada cause unhealthy air quality on June 7, 2023. Credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

Nearly Half of Americans Are Breathing Unhealthy Air as Pollution Exposure Numbers Reach Decade High

By Keerti Gopal

Demonstrators march during a rally outside the EPA offices on Tuesday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

EPA Continues to Dismantle Environmental Justice Office, Announces Plans to Terminate Nearly 300 Employees

By Georgina Gustin

Pope Francis arrives for the welcoming ceremony of a World Youth Day gathering in Lisbon, where he urged young Catholics to focus on caring for the planet and fighting climate change, on Aug. 3, 2023. Credit: Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images

‘The Earth Loses a Defender’: Pope Francis Fought for the Poor and the Planet

By Kiley Bense

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari receives the Goldman Environmental Prize for her decades-long fight to protect the Marañón River in Peru. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River

By Katie Surma

A view of a North Philadelphia neighborhood. Some neighborhoods face much higher temperatures in the summer than other areas of the city. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Trump Administration Severs ‘Lifeline’ for Families Struggling to Pay Utility Bills

By Kiley Bense

An aerial view of Oak Flat in Arizona. Credit: EcoFlight

Oak Flat is Sacred to Western Apache. The Trump Administration Intends to Approve a Plan to Destroy It

By Wyatt Myskow

A mother manatee swims with a calf near Palm Beach, Fla. Credit: Sam Farkas/NOAA

Federal Judge Orders Florida to Address Pollution That Led to Manatee Deaths

By Amy Green

Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous (center, in white) poses with Dr. Robert Bullard (to his left, in yellow), Pastor Timothy Williams and other members of the Shiloh community in south Alabama. Credit: Courtesy of Living on Earth

A Father of Environmental Justice Rebukes Sierra Club, Ben Jealous Over Treatment of Black Alabamians

By Lee Hedgepeth

A grizzly bear, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Acts, walks among pine trees in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jim Peaco/National Park Service

How the Trump Administration’s Interpretation of One Word—‘Harm’—Could Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Species

By Kiley Price, Wyatt Myskow

A package of white rice serves as a seafood sambal dish at a food stall in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, on January 16, 2025. Credit: Aman Rochman/NurPhoto/Getty Images

Half the World’s People Depend on Rice. New Research Says Climate Change Will Make it Toxic

By Georgina Gustin

A sign warns of dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas at a drilling site in the Permian Basin in August 2023. Exposure to high concentrations of the gas can be lethal. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Texas Oilfield Company and Executive Plead Guilty in Hydrogen Sulfide Deaths

By Martha Pskowski

After the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant caught fire, the facility's owners shipped thousands of gallons of fire suppressant water to a dairy farm in Yadkin County. That material contained toxic PFAS. Credit: Winston-Salem Fire Department

EPA Weighs N.C. Environmental Harms From Sewage Sludge Used as Fertilizer

By Lisa Sorg

An aerial view of Warrior Met's Blue Creek Mine No. 1 construction site. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Trump Official Visits, Touts Alabama Coal Mine With Thousands of Federal Safety Violations

By Lee Hedgepeth

An Air Tractor sprays pesticides on a farm in Whittemore, Iowa. Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Bayer Bill’ Granting Legal Protections to Pesticide Companies Fizzles Out in the Iowa Legislature Again

By Anika Jane Beamer

People check on a car stuck in a flooded street on June 13, 2024, in Hallandale Beach, Fla., a community that was marked as disadvantaged by the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Environmental Groups Sue the Trump Administration to Restore Web Tools Critical for Gauging Climate and Pollution Impacts

By Georgina Gustin

Mosquitoes fly over the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West

By Tina Deines

People stroll down Hidalgo Street to take a look at classic cars during the third annual Estos Vatos BorderTown Getdown car show in downtown Laredo on Saturday evening, March 22, 2025. Credit: Sam Owens/San Antonio Express-News

South Texas Developers Make a Sales Pitch to Sell Groundwater. Will Laredo Buy It?

By Martha Pskowski

The Magalloway River flows into Parmachenee Lake in western Maine. Credit: Ben Pearson

Lakes Region Restoration Project Aims to Link Conservation Lands From Maine to New Hampshire

By Olivia Gieger

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