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

Biologist Sandra Steingraber attends the Build Series at Build Studio on March 10, 2017 in New York City. Credit: Bennett Raglin/WireImage

Q&A: Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber on Scientists’ Moral Obligation to Speak Out

By Liza Gross

Jeanette Toomer fears that formaldehyde-based relaxers in hair straighteners she used for decades led her to develop endometrial cancer. Credit: Michael Kodas

What’s in That Bottle?

Interview by Ainsely O’Neill and Steve Curwood, “Living on Earth”

The Toad and the Geothermal Plant

By Henry Carnell, Mother Jones

The proposed site of SOBE Thermal Energy Systems' tire pyrolysis chemical plant in Youngstown, Ohio. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

A Plant Proposed in Youngstown, Ohio, Would Have Turned Tons of Tires Into Synthetic Gas. Local Officials Said Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

Sections of steel pipe of the Mountain Valley Pipeline sit on wooden blocks in August 2022 near wetland areas in Callaway, Virginia. The state's General Assembly has diminished the power of residents to engage in the decision-making process for permitting and siting such projects as the Mountain Valley Pipeline under the state Department of Environmental Quality, a key environmental justice provision under Virginia law. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Environmental Justice Advocates in Virginia Fear Recent Legal Gains Could Be Thwarted by Politics in Richmond

By Hannah Chanatry

Environmental activists from the Irish Wildlife Trust and Extinction Rebellion called on the Irish Government to introduce legislation in the form of a Biodiversity Act at a protest outside the National Biodiversity Conference in Dublin Castle on June 8, 2022. Credit: Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images

Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

By Katie Surma

Farmworkers work in a field near Bakersfield, Calif. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Dying in the Fields as Temperatures Soar

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

A young activist of American indigenous origins, Licypriya Kangujam, is removed by security after she forced herself onto the stage in a protest against fossil fuels extraction during COP28's "Uniting on the Pathway to 2030 and Beyond" session on December 11, 2023 in Dubai. Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The Climate Treadmill Speeds Up At COP28, But Critics Say It’s Still Not Going Anywhere

By Bob Berwyn

Heather McTeer Toney, a former official with the Environmental Protection Agency, has made it her personal mission to raise awareness among Black women, in particular, and in the African American community, in general, about the potential harms of chemicals in beauty products and other items. Credit: Timothy Ivy

For One Environmentalist, Warning Black Women About Dangerous Beauty Products Allows Them to Own Their Health

By Victoria St. Martin

As Texas leads the nation in Black growth, Tiara Dawson, a newcomer, acknowledges that many lack the survival skills needed for the state's increasing number of climate disasters. Credit: Riot Muse

Moving South, Black Americans Are Weathering Climate Change

By Adam Mahoney, Capital B

Catherine Coleman Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020 and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2023. Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Q&A: Catherine Coleman Flowers Talks COP28, Rural Alabama, and the Path Toward a ‘Just Transition’

By Lee Hedgepeth

The participants of the field visit to Baltimore's Old Goucher and Broadway East neighborhoods hear Ben Zaitchik talk about the weather station installed in the backyard of Kelly Cross' house, a resident and community activist who, along with his husband Mateusz Rozanski, led the efforts to plant more trees in Old Goucher. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

With $25 Million and Community Collaboration, Baltimore Is Becoming a Living Climate Lab

By Aman Azhar

Max Midstream’s Seahawk oil terminal at the Port of Calhoun County seen on Wednesday June 7, 2023. Credit: Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Texas Court Strikes Down Air Pollution Permit for Gulf Coast Oil Terminal

By Dylan Baddour

Conta, a member of the Tagaeri and Baihuaeri Waorani Indigenous groups, appears (via pre recorded video) before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 23, 2022 for a hearing in the first ever court case involving the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples. Conta lived the first six or seven years of her life in voluntary isolation with her Tageri family. Credit: Courtesy of the Inter American Court of Human Rights

Spanning Two Worlds, Judith Kimerling Explores Ecuador’s Rainforest and the Rule of Law That Might Save Those Who Live There

By Katie Surma

Judith Kimerling kneeling on pipelines above a drilling waste pit in the Ecuadorian Amazon in July 1990. Credit: Courtesy of Judith Kimerling

Judith Kimerling’s 1991 ‘Amazon Crude’ Exposed the Devastation of Oil Exploration in Ecuador. If Only She Could Make it Stop

By Katie Surma

David Choquehuanca Cespedes, vice president of Bolivia, speaks during day two at COP28 in Dubai. He is a member of the Aymara nation, raised in an Indigenous community on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Indigenous Leaders Urge COP28 Negotiators to Focus on Preventing Loss and Damage and Drastically Reducing Emissions

By Liza Gross

The protesters' signage reflected multiple demands on climate change and the humanitarian crisis in Palestine. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Activists Condemn Speakers at The New York Times’ Dealbook Summit for Driving Climate Change and Call for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza

By Keerti Gopal

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