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

A field near Polk City, Iowa, where hog manure was recently spread and incorporated into topsoil. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

Factory Farms in Iowa Generate 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Per Year. No One Tracks Where It’s Going.

By Anika Jane Beamer, Nina B. Elkadi

A man uses a wrench stuck into a pipe to turn off a burning gas line during the Eaton Fire on Jan. 8 in Altadena, Calif. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances

By Hilary Beaumont

A Los Angeles County crew member hydrates between repaving a road as temperatures reach 100 degrees and above in August 2023. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

New Analysis Provides More Evidence That Heat Standards Save Lives

By Liza Gross

The cranes of a new megaport tower behind the town of Chancay, Peru. Credit: Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images

A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge

By Georgina Gustin

The Interoceanic Highway runs by an illegal gold mining site in La Pampa, Peru. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

When a Road Goes Wrong

By Georgina Gustin

Protesters hold signs against ICE during a demonstration at the predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood of Little Village in Chicago on Oct. 25. Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images

ICE Raids in Chicago Spotlight the Link Between Immigrant Rights and Environmental Justice

By Susan Cosier

A volunteer from the Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation collects plastic waste from a mangrove swamp on July 26 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Credit: Juni Kriswanto/AFP via Getty Images

Peeling Back the Curtain on Big Plastic’s False Solutions 

By Liza Gross

An aerial view of fish pens at a fish farm in the Saronic Gulf of Greece. Credit: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images

Greeks Challenge EU-Backed Fish Farms Amid Environmental Concerns

By Moira Lavelle

In 2021, Dr. Robert Bullard, from right, talks with Fifth Ward residents Water Mallett, Doris Brown, then-EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner during Regan's tour of Houston to highlight environmental justice concerns. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds 

By Dylan Baddour

In North Carolina, Charlotte, and Mecklenburg County, remained just under the wire to comply with health-based standards for ozone, as measured over the last three years. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

N.C. Regulators Say Trump’s Proposed Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase ‘Criteria’ Air Pollutants

By Lisa Sorg

Members of a coalition opposing the Second Watchung Ridge development host a press conference in September. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

Old-Growth Forest in New Jersey at Center of Affordable Housing Debate

By Ryan Krugman

A worker stripes an intersection on a hot afternoon in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 6. Credit: Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

Piles of compost and mulch sit at the Hawk Ridge compost facility in Unity Township, Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Maine Was First To Ban Spreading PFAS-Contaminated Sludge on Farmland. Now Sludge Is Filling up Landfills.

By Sydney Cromwell

Tawanda Majoni, an investigative journalist and founder of Information for Development Trust, stands outside his office in Harare, Zimbabwe. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders

By Katie Surma

The convention center in Belem, Brazil, where COP30, the United Nations annual climate talks, took place over the past 12 days. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

COP30 Backpedals on Climate Action

By Bob Berwyn

A degraded area of the Amazon rainforest near Koatinemo Indigenous land in Brazil on June 12. Credit: Carlos Fabal/AFP via Getty Images

A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees

Interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

A layer of smog lingers above the downtown Los Angeles skyline on Dec. 6, 2024, as the region faces an air quality alert issued by the National Weather Service. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Growing Tensions with Air Regulator Lead Top California Environmental Justice Advisor to Resign

By Blanca Begert

An aerial view of trucks unloading and spreading trash over a hill at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic, Calif., in February 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Is Finally Updating Its Methane Landfill Rule

By Liza Gross

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