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

A pit in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas, where the Railroad Commission plugged a wellbore that was previously gushing thousands of gallons of wastewater a minute. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

An Old Well Gushed Waste, Not Oil, in a Small West Texas Town

By Martha Pskowski

Hayneville residents gather in a middle school now closed due to a declining local population for an open house with developers of a proposed hyperscale data center campus. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

On the Historic Route From Selma to Montgomery, an AI Cloud Looms

By Lee Hedgepeth

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, where toxic chemicals was detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina Sues Chemical Company for Polluting a Nearby Creek

By Lisa Sorg

Diane Wilson (right), Sharon Lavigne (left) and Nancy Bui display pictures of Vietnamese activists jailed for demanding reparations over the Formosa Plastics’ 2016 chemical spill disaster on May 28 in Taipei. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

Fishermen prepare their nets in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. Credit: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images

America Is Policing Foreign Waters, but Gutting Domestic Protections

By Johnny Sturgeon

A worker walks past molten steel at a factory in Huai'an, China, on July 22, 2025. Credit: CN-STR/AFP via Getty Images

Driven by Steel Production, China’s Belt and Road Construction Carries a Heavy Climate Cost

By Phil McKenna

A NOAA crew retrieves an Ocean Station Papa buoy in the Gulf of Alaska. Credit: Laura Dwyer/NOAA

Alaskans Reel From the Loss of National Science Foundation Ocean-Monitoring Instruments

By Paula Dobbyn

Firefighters are barely visible as smoke from the Bain Fire fills the air on May 19 in Jurupa Valley, Calif. Credit: Gina Ferazzia/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Wildfires Are Reversing Years of US Air Quality Gains, Study Finds

By Avril Silva

An aerial view of the Brookhaven landfill in New York. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Troubled by Spreading Landfill Pollution, a Long Island Community Demands Action

By Lauren Dalban

Mass Sloth Deaths in Florida Are a Warning About Wildlife Trade and Pandemic Risk, Scientists Say

By Katie Surma, Kiley Price

People visit the Climate Action Campaign’s pop-up exhibit in Washington, D.C. Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Climate News

A New DC ‘Museum’ Raises Awareness About the Looming Consequences of Extreme Weather

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

A Kashmiri farmer spreads synthetic fertilizer around an apple orchard on May 23 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Credit: Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Iran War Jeopardizes Global Food Security

By Madeline Shaw

A team with the New Mexico Reforestation Center monitors seedlings in Mora County. Credit: Courtesy of Pouli Sikelianos/NMHU

A ‘Reforestation Pipeline’ in New Mexico Trains Seedlings to Survive in Burn Scars

By Tina Deines

A tractor berms soil for almond trees on a farm near Lodi, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2025. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

California Pesticide Regulators Say New Rules Protect Communities as Applications of a Dangerous Fumigant Rise

By Liza Gross

A section of lead pipe that supplied drinking water to a home in Troy, N.Y. is removed on May 20, 2024. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images

Biden’s Clean Drinking Water Plan Is Being Rebranded as MAHA

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Grist

Fishers wave from onboard a Chinese-flagged squid jigger. Credit: Environmental Justice Foundation

Dolphins, Sharks, Turtles and Workers Are All Victims of Unregulated Squid Fleets

By Johnny Sturgeon

A view of factories, sorting facilities and recycling plants along the Calumet River in Chicago’s Southeast Side. Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In a Years-Long Fight, the Illinois Environmental Justice Movement Gets a Win

By Keerti Gopal

Eva Lighthiser, lead plaintiff in Lighthiser v. Trump, stands at the U.S. Capitol in July 2025. Credit: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images

Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Youth Climate Case Against Trump

By Dana Drugmand

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