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Justice & Health

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

Pataxo and Tupinamba Indigenous people demand justice for the murder of Vitor Braz during a protest in front of the Ministry of Justice in Brasília, Brazil, on March 12, 2025. Credit: Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu via Getty Images

An Environmental Defender Is Murdered Every Three Days

By Katie Surma

In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

The Dust Settled. The Health Effects of 9/11 Didn’t.

By Alissa de Chassey

Volunteers unload sacks of wheat flour from USAID at a camp for internally displaced people on Dec. 17, 2021, in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Credit: J. Countess/Getty Images

How the End of USAID Eroded Global Environmental Goals

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Cassandra Becerra, the Arizona State Director for Mountain Mamas, speaks at a press conference on Saturday kickstarting Latino Conservation Week and highlighting the threats facing Ironwood Forest National Monument. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Latino Conservation Week Kicks Off at Threatened Arizona National Monument

By Wyatt Myskow

Pam Benton, 59, a mother and grandmother, works as a painter and cleaner in Winston County. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

An Overdue Trash Bill Left This Alabama Woman in Handcuffs. She’s Not Alone.

By Lee Hedgepeth

A view of Ottawa National Forest in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Credit: U.S. Forest Service

Formal Repeal of Roadless Rule Directly Threatens Midwest Wilderness

By Sarah Mattalian

A swath of coal is visible in front of the J.H. Campbell coal power plant in an aerial photo.

Court Rules Against Trump Order to Keep Costly Michigan Coal Plant Running

By Dan Gearino, Keerti Gopal, Marianne Lavelle

Police and firefighters run away from a toxic dust cloud caused by the World Trade Center’s Tower One collapse in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Credit: Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images

25 Years After 9/11, the Health Toll Is Still Unfolding

By Lauren Dalban

A beach is seen adjacent to the Freeport LNG facility in Freeport, Texas. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

A Texas LNG Plant Pumps Out Chronic, Unpermitted Pollution, a Watchdog Finds

By Dylan Baddour

The construction site of a 49.5-megawatt three-level data center on July 8 in Vernon, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Data Center Boom Brings Health Hazards, Former EPA Officials Warn

By Keerti Gopal

Chris Hopkins (right), who organized opposition to the asphalt plant, attends the Aug. 27 Forsyth County Commissioners meeting. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

How Grassroots Opposition to a New Asphalt Plant Was Infiltrated by an Outside Operative

By Lisa Sorg

Maya Hart, one of millions of Southeast Texas residents who fled their homes during Hurricane Rita in September 2005, with the Galveston Bay behind her. Miles-long traffic jams, gas shortages and a humanitarian crisis cemented the Rita debacle as arguably the worst-executed mass evacuation in American history. Credit: Antranik Tavitian/Public Health Watch

Hurricanes Routinely Threaten the Texas Coast. But Mass Evacuations Pose Risks of Their Own.

By Elena Bruess, Public Health Watch

Dolce, one of the surviving sloths from Sloth World, eats a carrot inside her enclosure at Central Florida Zoo. Credit: Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens

Florida Proposes Stronger Protections for Sloths After Dozens Died at a Tourism Attraction

By Kiley Price, Katie Surma

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announces a settlement with Chemours over its forever chemicals pollution during a press conference on Thursday in Cumberland County. Credit: Matthew Wonderly/CityView

Chemours to Pay $455 Million for Fayetteville Works Contamination

By Morgan Casey, Lisa Sorg, Paul Woolverton

The crop duster spraying a field is flying low in the direction of the photographer

Industry Interests Spent Big Money to Stop California From Banning PFAS Pesticides

By Liza Gross

Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Ecuador’s Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Kury shake hands after a press conference in Quito on Wednesday. Credit: Dolores Ochoa/AFP via Getty Images

The US Wants Minerals from South America. Its Environmental Defenders Fear What Comes Next.

By Katie Surma

New Yorkers shop for air conditioners during a heat wave in Brooklyn on July 28, 2023. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

For Many New Yorkers, Home Is No Escape From the Heat

By Lauren Dalban

Fish swim around coral in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Credit: Greg McFall/NOAA

NOAA Fisheries Takes A ‘Sharp Turn Away From Science’

By Johnny Sturgeon

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