Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
Q&A: The U.N.’s New Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Environment Previously Won a Landmark Case in Peru
By Katie Surma
Q&A: Choked by Diesel Pollution From Generators, Cancer Rates in Beirut Surge by 30 Percent
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
A ‘Rights of Nature’ Tribunal Puts the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Trial
By Hannah Chanatry
Climate Protesters Take to the Field at the Congressional Baseball Game
By Keerti Gopal
Blue Cross of North Carolina Decided Against an Employee Screening of a Documentary That Links the State’s Massive Hog Farms to Public Health Ills
By Lisa Sorg
Navajo Summit Looks at History and Future of Tribe’s Relationship With Energy
By Noel Lyn Smith
Biofuel Refineries Are Releasing Toxic Air Pollutants in Farm Communities Across the US
By Georgina Gustin
South Baltimore Communities Press City, State Regulators for Stricter Pollution Controls on Coal Export Operations
By Aman Azhar
As the Country Heats Up, ERs May See an Influx of Young Patients Struggling With Mental Health
By Jenaye Johnson
Where the Water Doesn’t Flow: Thousands Across Alabama Live Without Access to Public Water
By Lee Hedgepeth
Amid Record-Breaking Heat Wave, Researchers Step Up Warnings About Risks Extreme Temperatures Pose to Children
By Victoria St. Martin
In Brazil’s Semi-Arid Region, Small Farmers Work Exhausted Lands, Hoping a New Government Will Revive the War on Desertification
Story by Giovanna Carneiro and Inácio França, Marco Zero Conteúdo
Living and Dying in the Shadow of Chemical Plants
By Lanier Isom, Al Jazeera
Q&A: As Temperatures in Pakistan Top 120 Degrees, There’s Nowhere to Run
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
As Another Hot Summer Approaches, 80 New York City Neighborhoods Ranked Highly Vulnerable to Heat
By Alastair Lee Bitsóí
Louisville, Kentucky, Moves Toward Cleaning Up Its ‘Gully of the Drums’ After More Than Four Decades
By James Bruggers
