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

A woman walks home carrying flour on her head past a damaged sea wall on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. Credit: Andrew Meares/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images

In Pivotal Climate Case, UN Panel Says Australia Violated Islanders’ Human Rights

By Katie Surma

A 150-foot derrick is positioned over a natural gas well site along a jogging and bicycle trail system near a Trinity River embankment on December 19, 2008 in Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Texas Is Now the Nation’s Biggest Emitter of Toxic Substances Into Streams, Rivers and Lakes

By Dylan Baddour

Residents use a raft to move along a waterlogged street in a residential area after a heavy monsoon rainfall in Hyderabad City on Aug. 19, 2022. Credit: Akram Shahid/AFP via Getty Images

In Pakistan, 33 Million People Have Been Displaced by Climate-Intensified Floods

By Zoha Tunio

Una bomba extrae petróleo crudo justo detrás de la ventana del dormitorio de Yesinia Martínez, quien ha tenido problemas de salud, la mayoría relacionados con la extracción de petróleo y gas, desde que era pequeña. Crédito: Liza Gross

Cuando tu vecino es un pozo de petróleo

By Liza Gross

A sign with a skull and crossbones that translates as ‘No uranium’ in the Diné language warns visitors near the Church Rock mining site in Navajo Nation. Credit: Eli Cahan

‘We’re Losing Our People’

By Eli Cahan, Capital & Main

Jamiya Williams, left, watches as her fiance, Terrence Carter, right, pours bleach into the water before washing dishes in response to the water crisis on Sept. 1, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. The water pressure increased in their apartment on Wednesday however the water is still unsafe to drink. Jackson has been experiencing days without reliable water service after river flooding caused the main treatment facility to fail. Credit: Brad Vest/Getty Images

Q&A: How White Flight and Environmental Injustice Led to the Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis

By James Bruggers

Refuse bags full of materials for recycling in different colored plastic bags. Credit: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

A Houston Firm Says It’s Opening a Billion-Dollar Chemical Recycling Plant in a Small Pennsylvania Town. How Does It Work?

By James Bruggers

Drifting Toward Disaster: the (Second) Rio Grande

By Dylan Baddour

Demonstrators gather in Santiago, on Oct. 25, 2019, a week after protests started in Chile. Credit: Pedro Ugarte / AFP via Getty Images

Chilean Voters Reject a New Constitution That Would Have Provided Groundbreaking Protections for the Rights of Nature

By Katie Surma

People hike near Thule Air Base on March 25, 2017 in Pituffik, Greenland. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Despite Misunderstandings, Scientists and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Have Collaborated on Research Into Mercury Pollution

By Myriam Vidal

A pumpjack extracts crude oil just behind Yesinia Martinez's bedroom window. Martinez has had health problems, most linked to oil and gas extraction, since she was little. Credit: Liza Gross

When an Oil Well Is Your Neighbor

By Liza Gross

In Portsmouth, a Superfund Site Pollutes a Creek, Threatens a Neighborhood and Defies a Quick Fix

By Daelin Brown

Q&A: Eliza Griswold Reflects on the Lessons of  ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ Her Deep Dive Into Fracking in Southwest Pennsylvania

By David Shribman

A car drives by a home with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas near Calvert, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Study: Pennsylvania Children Who Live Near Fracking Wells Have Higher Leukemia Risk

By Victoria St. Martin

Construction worker Joe Fitzpatrick keeps a towel around his neck to help him with the heat while working on the MBTA Green Line in Boston. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Too Hot to Work, Too Hot to Play

By James Pothen, Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen, Hannah Loss, Myriam Vidal, Rachel Rodriguez, Samantha Hurley

Stagnant pools filled the dry bed of the Rio Grande when it stopped flowing for several weeks this May in the Chihuahua Desert. Credit: Dylan Baddour

Mexican Drought Spurs a South Texas Water Crisis

By Dylan Baddour

Christine Gemperle shells an almond freshly picked from a tree in her grove in Ceres. Credit: Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

Out in the Fields, Contemplating Humanity and a Parched Almond Farm

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Private homes surround Sunoco's gas liquids pipeline along a right-of-way Oct. 5, 2017 in Marchwood, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

A Pipeline Giant Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Environmental Crimes in Pennsylvania After Homeowners Complained of Tainted Water

By Jon Hurdle

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