Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
Amid Brutal Heat Wave, Officials Stress Health Risks of Hot Nights
By Kiley Price
In North Carolina, Exploding Bulbs and Fridges on the Fritz Reveal a Town’s Fraying Electric System
By Lisa Sorg
A New York Rooftop Blossoms with Lessons About Food Literacy
By Ryan Krugman
In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward
By Twilight Greenaway
The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want
By Katie Surma
Alabama Environmental Groups Secure Rare Win in Fight to Update Water Toxicity Standards
By Dennis Pillion
As Wildfires Increase, NJ Considers the Impact on Public Health
By Anna Mattson
Pollution, Not Drought, Prompts Lawn-Watering Ban in Des Moines
By Anika Jane Beamer
Juneteenth and Its Role in Environmental Justice—for All
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers
By Lee Hedgepeth
At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas
By Teresa Tomassoni
A National Quest for Uranium Comes to Remote Western Alaska, Raising Fears in a Nearby Village
By Max Graham, Northern Journal
Air Pollution Is ‘Keeping Kids Out of School’ in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, Study Shows
By Kiley Bense
US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms
By Liza Gross
Global Climate Talks Resumed This Week in Germany, For the First Time in 30 Years Without the United States
By Bob Berwyn
In Canada’s ‘Silicon Valley’ of Mining, Speculators Power a Hunt for Alaska’s Minerals
By Max Graham, Northern Journal
