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

El puente de la carretera 90 cruza la presa de la Amistad cerca de Del Rio, Texas. El agua entregado a EE.UU. se almacena en dos embalses, donde los niveles de agua han bajado en los últimos meses. Fotografía por Omar Ornelas

La otra disputa fronteriza es sobre un tratado de aguas de 80 años

By Martha Pskowski

The U.S. 90 bridge crosses the Amistad Reservoir near Del Rio, Texas. Water deliveries from Mexico are stored at the reservoir, where water levels have dropped in recent months. Credit: Omar Ornelas

The Other Border Dispute Is Over an 80-Year-Old Water Treaty

By Martha Pskowski

Sasser Sasser uses her research to show how climate emotions land hardest on marginalized groups, people of color and low-income groups. Credit: Courtesy photo

Q&A: Should We Be Having Babies In a Warming World? 

By Victoria St. Martin

Activists recorded dark smoke emitting from the Curtis Bay medical waste incinerator on Jan. 26. Credit: Courtesy of South Baltimore Community Land Trust

To Incinerate Or Not To Incinerate: Maryland Hospitals Grapple With Question With Big Public Health Implications

By Aman Azhar

Milton Denney loads up bottled water for distribution to residents of Santee, Neb. High levels of manganese in the tribe’s water may have adverse effects on the central nervous systems of people who consume it. Credit: Jerry L Mennenga/Flatwater Free Press

After Five Years Without Drinkable Water, a Nebraska Town Asks: When Will Our Tap Water Be Safe?

By Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press

Homes throughout Barre, Vermont were inundated with flash flooding on July 11, 2023 after heavy rains across the state. Credit: John Tully/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Q&A: New Legislation in Vermont Will Make Fossil Fuel Companies Liable for Climate Impacts in the State. Here’s What That Could Look Like

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

A Walk in the Woods With My Brain on Fire: Spring

Text and photos by David Sassoon

An aerial view of a coal ash pond in Jefferson County, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

EPA Formally Denies Alabama’s Plan for Coal Ash Waste

By Lee Hedgepeth

Payam Akhavan (center), lawyer and chairman of the Commission of Small Island States, speaks at a press conference on Tuesday in Hamburg, Germany after the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea issued a legal opinion on measures to protect the oceans from climate change. Credit: Christian Charisius/Picture Alliance via Getty Images

‘Historic’ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Says Countries Must Prevent Greenhouse Gases From Harming Oceans

By Katie Surma

Turkiye’s State Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, along with the teams from Russia, Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and UAE conduct search and rescue operations in the aftermath of severe flooding caused by Storm Daniel in Derna, Libya on Sept. 19, 2023. Credit: Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Significant Environmental and Climate Impacts Are Impinging on Human Rights in Every Country, a New Report Finds

By Katie Surma

Climate Jobs Are Ramping Up, But a ‘Just Transition’ Is Necessary to Ensure Equity, Experts Say

By Kiley Price

As California Considers Warning Labels for Gas Stoves, Researchers Learn More About Their Negative Health Impacts

By Victoria St. Martin

More than a year ago, a catastrophic flood submerged the tiny town of Pájaro, about 95 miles south of San Francisco. The Pájaro PhotoVoice Project offered survivors of the disaster the opportunity to use photography to grapple with the impacts of climate change. Credit: Ricardo Paz-Hernandez

After the Deluge, Images of Impacts and Resilience in Pájaro, California

By Liza Gross

Canadian Wildfire Smoke Is Triggering Outdoor Air Quality Alerts Across the Midwestern U.S. It Could Pollute the Indoors, Too

By Kiley Price

Natalia Greene, an Ecuadorian environmentalist and judge with the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, walks through the Chocó Andino cloud forest with her family in Mindo, Ecuador. Credit: Katie Surma

How the Drug War and Energy Transition Are Changing Ecuadorians’ Fight For The Rights of Nature

By Katie Surma

The grave of W.M. Griffice in the Oak Grove community of Jefferson County. Griffice died from injuries he suffered in a home explosion on March 8. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Company Sued for a Home Explosion That Killed a Man Is Delinquent on Dozens of Penalties, Records Show

By Lee Hedgepeth, James Bruggers

Dozens of people attend TxDOT’s public meeting on possible highway expansion near the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park in El Paso, Texas on May 2. Credit: Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate News

El Paso Residents Rally to Protect a Rio Grande Wetland

By Martha Pskowski

Juan Mancias, chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, stands outside the future site of Texas LNG and present site of Garcia Pasture, an old village grounds recognized by the World Monuments Fund.

Forgotten Keepers of the Rio Grande Delta: a Native Elder Fights Fossil Fuel Companies in Texas

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

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