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

An aerial view of a DM hog farm, one of the farms sending methane gas to the Align RNG processing facility in Turkey, N.C. A digester covers a manure lagoon on the left and the digester waste is sent to the open lagoon on the right. Credit: Kemp Burdette

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

By Blanca Begert

The ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery is seen on Jan. 13 in Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Michigan Tries a New Legal Tactic Against Big Oil, Alleging Antitrust Violations Aimed at Hobbling EVs and Renewable Energy

By Dana Drugmand

Employees walk into the U.S. Department of Energy building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Administration Dropped Controversial Climate Report From Its Decision to Rescind EPA Endangerment Finding

By Dennis Pillion

President Donald Trump speaks alongside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin during an event announcing the rollback of the endangerment finding at the White House on Thursday. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding

By Kiley Bense

Finless porpoises play in the Yangtze River waters of Yichang City, China, on April 22, 2025. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Five Years Into a Fishing Ban, the Yangtze River Is Teeming With Life

By Johnny Sturgeon

Smoke emits from the stacks of ABC Coke in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Citing National Security, Trump Has Abandoned Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Ovens

By Lee Hedgepeth

StarPet, a plastics plant in Asheboro, sends wastewater containing 1,4-dioxane to the city's treatment plant, which in turn discharges it into rivers and streams that are drinking water supplies. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

N.C. Judge Upholds the State’s Limits on 1,4-Dioxane Pollution in Utilities’ Wastewater

By Lisa Sorg

A hairdresser braids a client’s hair with synthetic hair extensions in Lusaka, Zambia, on Aug. 15, 2023. Credit: Lillian Banda/Xinhua via Getty Images

Toxic Beauty: Black Women Most at Risk From Harmful Chemicals in Unregulated Hair Products

By Liza Gross

A wood stork carries fresh nesting material across the Wakodahatchee Wetlands on Jan. 21 in Delray Beach, Fla. Credit: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Trump Administration to Finalize Protections for 11 South Florida Plants and Animals

By Amy Green

Blake Muir and his niece, Jennifer Sullivan, stand near a tank battery on his land in Gonzales County. Data shows it could come under nearly 15 feet of water in a 500-year flood. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous

A view of chemical plants and factories in the Louisiana area known as Cancer Alley. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

The State of Environmental Justice Under Trump 2.0

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

A young humpback whale swims with its mother in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean near the island of Rurutu in the Austral archipelago of French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

How a ‘Powerful Vision’ on Whales and Oceans Could Change Worldviews

By Katie Surma

An African elephant moves through the Cuando River in Angola. Credit: Kostadin Luchansky/National Geographic

One of Africa’s Most Important Water Sources Just Got Some Very Good News

By Katie Surma

A view of the Chevron Richmond Refinery in Contra Costa County, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Mapping Unequal Climate Risks in a Northern California County

By Liza Gross

The Rio Grande and the border wall are seen in Brownsville, Texas, on Jan. 15. Credit: Gabriel V. Cardenas/AFP via Getty Images

Rio Grande Valley Advocates Urge Congress to Restore Protections for Public Lands in Path of Border Wall

By Martha Pskowski

Cars drive over the Central Arizona Canal, which delivers Colorado River water to Central and Southern Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2025. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

Taylor Register, a water quality specialist with Sound Rivers, samples water from a ditch near White Oaks Farm in North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of Samantha Krop

A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations

By Lisa Sorg

Julissa Hernandez used to run track and field as a student at Niagara Falls High School before her asthma forced her to quit. She believes the poor air quality in in the New York town contributed to her complications. Credit: Jennifer Wybieracki

How Two Teens in Niagara Falls Are Confronting Pollution and a Mental Health Crisis

By Jennifer Wybieracki

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