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

Protesters hold signs against ICE during a demonstration at the predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood of Little Village in Chicago on Oct. 25. Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images

ICE Raids in Chicago Spotlight the Link Between Immigrant Rights and Environmental Justice

By Susan Cosier

A volunteer from the Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation collects plastic waste from a mangrove swamp on July 26 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Credit: Juni Kriswanto/AFP via Getty Images

Peeling Back the Curtain on Big Plastic’s False Solutions 

By Liza Gross

An aerial view of fish pens at a fish farm in the Saronic Gulf of Greece. Credit: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images

Greeks Challenge EU-Backed Fish Farms Amid Environmental Concerns

By Moira Lavelle

In 2021, Dr. Robert Bullard, from right, talks with Fifth Ward residents Water Mallett, Doris Brown, then-EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner during Regan's tour of Houston to highlight environmental justice concerns. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds 

By Dylan Baddour

In North Carolina, Charlotte, and Mecklenburg County, remained just under the wire to comply with health-based standards for ozone, as measured over the last three years. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

N.C. Regulators Say Trump’s Proposed Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase ‘Criteria’ Air Pollutants

By Lisa Sorg

Members of a coalition opposing the Second Watchung Ridge development host a press conference in September. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

Old-Growth Forest in New Jersey at Center of Affordable Housing Debate

By Ryan Krugman

A worker stripes an intersection on a hot afternoon in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 6. Credit: Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

Piles of compost and mulch sit at the Hawk Ridge compost facility in Unity Township, Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Maine Was First To Ban Spreading PFAS-Contaminated Sludge on Farmland. Now Sludge Is Filling up Landfills.

By Sydney Cromwell

Tawanda Majoni, an investigative journalist and founder of Information for Development Trust, stands outside his office in Harare, Zimbabwe. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders

By Katie Surma

The convention center in Belem, Brazil, where COP30, the United Nations annual climate talks, took place over the past 12 days. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

COP30 Backpedals on Climate Action

By Bob Berwyn

A degraded area of the Amazon rainforest near Koatinemo Indigenous land in Brazil on June 12. Credit: Carlos Fabal/AFP via Getty Images

A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees

Interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

A layer of smog lingers above the downtown Los Angeles skyline on Dec. 6, 2024, as the region faces an air quality alert issued by the National Weather Service. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Growing Tensions with Air Regulator Lead Top California Environmental Justice Advisor to Resign

By Blanca Begert

An aerial view of trucks unloading and spreading trash over a hill at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic, Calif., in February 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Is Finally Updating Its Methane Landfill Rule

By Liza Gross

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference at the COP30 climate conference on Thursday in Belém, Brazil. Credit: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images

US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30

By Bob Berwyn

Local resident Bobby Amerson walks past sections of steel pipe to be used for the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Callaway, Va., on Aug. 30, 2022. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Gas Pipeline Proposals in Virginia Multiply Through the South—and Worry Community Activists

By Charles Paullin

Luna Angulo, born and raised in Richmond, Calif., stands in front of a site where long-defunct chemical plants dumped toxic wastes, near another hazardous site likely to flood as sea level rises along the city’s shoreline. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites

By Liza Gross

Bill McKibben speaks to the crowd at the Climate Superfund Act rally in front of the New Jersey state house on Monday. Credit: Carrie Klein/Inside Climate News

Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up

By Carrie Klein

More than 90 species of reef fish, including the commercially important southern red snapper, depend on the Great Amazon Reef System, where they feed and shelter in its crevices and caves. Credit: Greenpeace Brazil

As COP30 Unfolds in the Amazon, Brazil Is Drilling for Oil Near the Great Amazon Reef System

By Teresa Tomassoni

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