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

Kristi Naquin shows wind damaged screens at her home, built as part of the first federally funded relocation project in the United States. Naquin was among the more than 30 residents who used to live along the Louisiana coastline at Isle de Jean Charles, a mostly Indigenous community. Naquin says the 3-year-old homes are substandard. Credit: Jeffrey Basinger/Floodlight

As Millions Face Climate Relocation, the Nation’s First Attempt Sparks Warnings and Regret

By Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon, Floodlight

Fish swim underwater at the North Seymour Island dive site in the Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

A Turning Point for the Ocean: What the High Seas Treaty Means

By Teresa Tomassoni

Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee at a Town Hall press conference in December 2024 announced the town is suing Duke Energy because it allegedly deceived the public about the validity of climate change. Credit: Town of Carrboro

Is Duke Energy Liable for Climate-Related Property Damage After Funding Denialist Campaigns?

By Lisa Sorg

The Passaic River flows through downtown Newark, N.J. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The Passaic River Stars in a Short Drama About Its Life as a Superfund Site

By Anna Mattson

The site of the proposed Bessemer data center is currently a nearly 700-acre wooded plot. Construction would require the clearcutting of more than 100 acres. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Citing Climate Crisis, NAACP Expresses Opposition to Massive Alabama Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth

Olivia Vesovitch (center), Georgi Fischer (right) and Eva Lighthiser (back) arrive at the U.S. District Court of Montana in Missoula on Sept. 16. Credit: Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

Can the Latest Youth Climate Case Win Where Others Have Failed?

By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

People walk along the East River in Brooklyn at sunrise on Aug. 12, as New York City experiences an air quality health advisory. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Urban Heat and Air Pollution May Harm Developing Brains in the Womb, Study Suggests

By Jaylan Sims

Workers harvest kale on a farm in the Central Valley of Salinas, Calif. Credit: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Pesticides in Your Produce? Probably.

By Liza Gross

Can Pollution From Industrial Animal Agriculture Be Controlled?

ICN Sunday Morning

The Steep Environmental Costs of China’s Massive Global Development

ICN Sunday Morning

A worker replaces a main water lead pipe at a home in Chicago’s West Ridge neighborhood on July 25. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Chicago Has Hundreds of Thousands of Toxic Lead Pipes—and Millions of Unspent Dollars to Replace Them

By Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

A landscape in Zambia 12 weeks after a Chinese copper mine spilled toxic waste laced with heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and uranium. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Waste Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts

By Katie Surma

People in blue swim caps and neon orange buoys swim under a bridge in the Chicago River past people in kayaks

‘A Really Monumental Day’ for Chicago River: Clean Enough for Hundreds to Swim In

By Leigh Giangreco

An aerial view shows a natural gas processing plant under construction in Pennsylvania’s Washington County on Oct. 26, 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

Nicholas Spada stands in front of an instument panel at UC Davis’ Crocker Nuclear Laboratory with a radiation exposure monitor prominently pinned to his shirt’s pocket on March 25.

Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires. He Thinks People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

A view of the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2016, where natural gas had been leaking from the Aliso Canyon storage facility since Oct. 23, 2015. Credit: Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images

Toxic Plumes from Aliso Canyon Gas Blowout Harmed Babies, Study Shows

By Liza Gross

Eshaan Vakil (left), an organizer with Climate Defiance, and Barbara Sheehan, with Sunrise Movement, are two of the activists who disrupted a panel discussion with Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub at a Harvard climate symposium on Friday. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

Climate Activists Disrupt Fossil Fuel Executive at Harvard University Symposium

By Phil McKenna

Children speak alongside lawmakers at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Source: Screengrab from Sen. Ed Markey livestream

Children Plead With U.S. Lawmakers to Protect EPA’s Endangerment Finding

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

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