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

Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo has been a park ranger in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park for two decades, fighting to protect the park from extractive industries. He is facing legal battles and constant threats of physical danger for his work as an environmental defender. Credit: Moses Sawasawa/CliDef

New Report Condemns Increasing Violence and Legal Retaliation Against Environmental Activists

By Keerti Gopal, Mathilde Augustin

Firefighters arrive to extinguish a wildfire on Sept. 24 in Concepcion, Bolivia. Credit: Rodrigo Urzagasti/AFP via Getty Images

Bolivia Has National Rights of Nature Laws. Why Haven’t They Been Enforced?

By Katie Surma

This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board shows the site of the derailed Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine, Ohio. Credit: NTSB/Handout via Xinhua

New Guidelines Center the Needs of People With Disabilities During Petrochemical Disasters

By Kara Holsopple, The Allegheny Front

Sherry Bradley, who runs the Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Project, explains how a new septic system will work for a mobile home in Lowndes County. Credit: Dennis Pillion/Inside Climate News

A Year After Historic Civil Rights Settlement, Alabama Slowly Bringing Sanitation Equity to Rural Black Communities

By Dennis Pillion

Debris is seen in front of the Thunderbird Beach Resort in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton on Friday in Treasure Island, Fla. Credit: Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images

Why Hurricanes Are Much—Much—Deadlier Than Official Death Counts Suggest

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

After Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Bacteria and Chemicals May Lurk in Flood Waters

By Kiley Price

Coal ash storage ponds are located near Alabama's waterways, posing a risk to wildlife and the environment. Pictured is a storage pond located in Jefferson County. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

EPA Settles Some Alabama Coal Ash Violations, but Larger Questions Linger

By Dennis Pillion

Garbage collected in bags piles up outside of a home in Chickasaw, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Town Plans to Drop Criminal Charges Over Unpaid Garbage Bills

By Lee Hedgepeth

Chemical plants line the roads and suburbs of Cancer Alley, an area along the Mississippi River that stretches from New Orleans to Baton Rouge in Louisiana. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Case Claiming Environmental Racism in Cancer Alley Zoning

By James Bruggers

Honduras Próspera construyó un edificio de 14 pisos de usos mixtos al pie de una ladera anteriormente arbolada cerca de Crawfish Rock, un pueblo de pescadores de unos cientos de personas en la isla de Roatán. Crédito: Nicholas Kusnetz/Inside Climate News

En Honduras, los Libertarios y las Demandas Judiciales Podrían Quebrar el País

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

A view of Deer Park Stadium with refineries in the background in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Mark Felix/The Texas Tribune

How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring Team 

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous

A grizzly bear and her two cubs walk along Pelican Creek on June 21, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Credit: Jonathan Newton/Getty Images

Bad News, Bears? States Take Legal Actions to End Grizzlies’ Endangered Species Protections

By Najifa Farhat

Willie Horstead Jr., an Army veteran, has spent years watching his mobile home slowly sink into the ground because of repeated flooding in the Shiloh community, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Federal Highway Officials Reach Agreement With Alabama Over Claims It Discriminated Against Flooded Black Residents

By Lee Hedgepeth

Cheryl Shadden stands at the edge of her property across the street from the Wolf Hollow II power plant, which provides electricity for the Marathon Digital Bitcoin mining facility, in Granbury, Texas. Credit: Keaton Peters/Inside Climate News

Neighbors of Bitcoin Mine in Texas File Nuisance Lawsuit Over Noise Pollution

By Keaton Peters

An Army National Guard member assists a resident with potable water in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 29 in Old Fort, N.C. Credit: Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

N.C. Health Officials Issue Guidelines for Thousands of Potentially Flooded Private Wells 

By Lisa Sorg

Honduran President Xiomara Castro delivers a speech to her supporters during a rally in Tegucigalpa on Sept. 14. Credit: Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images

‘Pure Greed’: A Legal System That Gives Corporations Special Rights Has Come for Honduras

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

From left: Lisa Schehr, Mae Brouhard, Chloe Schehr, Nikki Wagg and Dawn Overmyer are beekeepers on a 12-acre family farm near Midway, N.C. Their family land, including the beekeeping farm, is in the path of the Transco pipeline expansion. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

A Family of Beekeepers Could Lose Their Hives Because of a Massive Pipeline Expansion

By Lisa Sorg

From left: Sandra Silva, Jorge Nawel and Gonzalo Verges deliver a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission's Manhattan office on Sept. 26. Nawel's Indigenous Mapuche community in Argentina has been heavily impacted by fracking since the early 2010s. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Group Asks SEC to Scrutinize Fracking Companies Operating in Argentina

By Katie Surma, Keerti Gopal

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