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

People walk around downtown Los Angeles as smog fills the sky in 1958. Credit: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library

Smog, Lies and Pineapples: How LA Cleaned up Its Air and What’s Left to Do

By Steven Rodas

Alannah Hurley, executive director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, is the winner of the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for North America. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Anna Vargas, of Manassa, Colorado, is a sixth-generation resident of the San Luis Valley who is deeply embedded in local water management initiatives. She hasn’t drunk her own tap water in years out of fear of contamination. Credit: Jacob Spetzler/Inside Climate News

As a Colorado Aquifer Runs Low, Dangerous Heavy Metals Threaten Rural Communities’ Drinking Water

By Emily Payne

Another early spring this year brings more evidence that climate change is making pollen season longer and more miserable. Credit: RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post

How Climate Change Makes Your Allergies Worse

By Keerti Gopal

Steam rises from a JBS beef production facility as workers strike during the early morning hours on March 16 in Greeley, Colo. Credit: Brice Tucker/MediaNews Group/Greeley Tribune via Getty Images

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

By Georgina Gustin

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks at the annual state wildfire outlook briefing in Broomfield, Colo., on April 30. Credit: Drew Cavin/Colorado College Journalism Institute

Colorado Warns of Severe Fire Risk in Southwestern States. It May be Difficult to Share Resources.

By Colorado College Journalism Institute

Kurdistan Workers’ Party fighters plant trees in the Qandil Mountains. Experts see an opportunity for environmental restoration after a long conflict between the group and Turkey ended last year. Credit: Kurdishstruggle/CC BY 2.0

War Harms the Environment. Can a Peace Treaty Repair the Damage?

By Jaylan Sims

Rain is falling harder and faster around Chicago, creating more severe flooding. Experts say it’s going to get worse, creating an urgency to plan ahead. Credit: Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Flooding in Chicago Is Getting Worse. Here’s Why.

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Graves mark the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where U.S. troops killed more than 250 Lakota men, women and children. Credit: Carla Samon Ros/CJI

How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

Māori communities march to advocate for the interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi and Indigenous rights on Nov. 19, 2024, in Wellington, New Zealand. Credit: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

What the US Could Learn About Mining on Indigenous Peoples’ Ancestral Lands

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

Bernard Rowe, managing director of Ioneer, points to the site of the company’s planned lithium mine on Nevada’s Rhyolite Ridge. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

How We Tracked the Lithium Rush

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

The Des Moines River is a drinking water source for more than 600,000 Iowans. When nitrate levels in the river spike, Central Iowa Water Works spends $9,000 to $16,000 a day operating its removal facilities. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

With Fertilizer Pollution on the Rise, Iowa Will Invest $100 Million in Water Treatment

By Anika Jane Beamer

The Central Florida Zoo announced on April 29 that Bandit, a sloth transferred from Sloth World, had died. Credit: Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens

Florida Opens Criminal Probe Into Sloth World After Dozens of Animal Deaths

By Katie Surma, Kiley Price

Plumes of smoke rise over oil depot tanks hit by a joint Israel-U.S. attack on March 8 in Tehran, Iran. Credit: Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images

As Energy, War and Climate Collide, a Conference in Colombia Charts a Path Beyond Fossil Fuels

By Bob Berwyn

People walk near the front entrance to Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades on April 22. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

In Florida, Alligator Alcatraz Remains Open Among Sacred Miccosukee Lands

By Amy Green

A Mexican spotted owl sits on a tree branch. Credit: Shaula Hedwall/USFWS

Tribe and Environmentalists to Sue Feds Over Arizona Mine’s Impacts to Threatened Owls

By Wyatt Myskow

Margie Padilla is worried that a proposed data center near her home in Imperial, Calif., will increase power and water costs for her family. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

California Will Soon Have More Than 300 Data Centers. Where Will They Get Their Water?

By Steven Rodas

Elida Castillo, mayor of Taft, Texas, speaks at a city park on March 31. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Disaster Declarations Ripple Through South Texas Amid Water Crisis

By Dylan Baddour, Neena Satija of KUT and The Texas Newsroom, and Emily Salazar of KEDT

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