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

The Poet bioprocessing plant in Jewell, Iowa, which produces 90 million gallons of ethanol annually. Several pipelines have been proposed in the Midwest that would deliver millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide captured every year from Midwest ethanol plants to underground storage facilities. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How Midwest Landowners Helped to Derail One of the Biggest CO2 Pipelines Ever Proposed

By Kristoffer Tigue

In a photo taken on May 4, 2023, residents cross a temporary bridge near hotels and houses that were damaged by flash floods on the banks of the Swat River in 2022 in Bahrain, a town in the Swat valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which was lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains over the summer of 2022. The ensuing floods that put a third of the country underwater, damaged two million homes and killed more than 1,700 people. Credit: Aamir Qureshi / AFP via Getty Images

Deep Rifts at UN Loss and Damage Talks Cast a Shadow on Upcoming Climate Conference

By Bob Berwyn

Spraying an agricultural field on the eastern shore of Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools

By Liza Gross

Badly damaged buildings are pictured near Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila on April 7, 2020, after Tropical Cyclone Harold swept past and hit islands to the north. The cyclone caused $600 million in damage, some 60 percent of the small Pacific island nation's GDP. Credit: PHILIPPE CARILLO/AFP via Getty Images.

Q&A: Rich and Poor Nations Have One More Chance to Come to Terms Over a Climate Change ‘Loss and Damage’ Fund

Interview by Jenni Doering, “Living on Earth”

Steven James, 12, waits to hunt geese on St. Lawrence Island, in Alaska, sitting hidden behind a wood bar and a whale bone. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images.

Five Decades and a Mountain of Evidence: Study Explores How Toxic Chemicals are ‘Stealing Children’s Future Potential’

By Victoria St. Martin

Aerial view of Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. The country is currently facing claims through the investor-state dispute settlements process, or ISDS, from three foreign mining companies seeking more than $30 billion, twice its gross domestic product.Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

A Shadowy Corner of International Law Is Threatening Climate Action, U.N. Expert Warns

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

Mayor Kate Gallego of Phoenix, Arizona appears on a monitor as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event on extreme heat July 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. During the event Biden announced additional actions to protect communities from the effects of extreme heat. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

 Q&A: After its Hottest Summer On Record, Phoenix’s Mayor Outlines the City’s Future

By Wyatt Myskow

Rosemary Penwarden is led away by police after gluing her hand to a road in New Zealand to stop traffic as part of a protest by Restore Passenger Rail in August 2023. Credit: Photo Courtesy Restore Passenger Rail

In New Zealand, Increasingly Severe Crackdowns on Environmental Protesters Fail to Deter Climate Activists

By Emma Ricketts

In a new papal exhortation on climate change issued in advance of the upcoming U.N. climate talks in the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis challenged U.N. negotiators to strengthen the agreement they reached in Paris in 2015, to include “binding forms of energy transition that meet three conditions: that they be efficient, obligatory and readily monitored.” Credit: Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images.

Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate

By James Bruggers

Brad Rogers, left, and Rev. Richard Partlow, the interim executive director of Cherry Hill Development Corporation, one of the community partners of the South Baltimore Gateway Partnership, on their way to a meeting at the Cherry Hill Strong's office nearby. Credit: Aman Azhar / Inside Climate News

In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain

By Aman Azhar

A mural of Malcolm X stands in Prichard, Alabama, near the offices of Prichard Water. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News.

First Floods, Now Fires: How Neglect and Fraud Hobbled an Alabama Town

By Lee Hedgepeth

Chauncey Goss and his family spent weeks clearing hurricane debris from their property, as shown in this photograph taken shortly after Ian struck. Photo courtesy Chauncey Goss

For Sanibel, the Recovery from Hurricane Ian Will Be Years in the Making

By Amy Green

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro is supporting the Decarbonization Network of Appalachia, one of two groups in the Western Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia region that have been asked by the federal government to submit final applications for so-called hydrogen hubs. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

A Drop in Emissions, and a Jobs Bonanza? Critics Question Benefits of a Proposed Hydrogen Hub for the Appalachian Region

By Jon Hurdle

An Afghan scientist gathers water and soil samples at a water outflow from Bagram Airfield, formerly America's largest military base in Afghanistan. Credit: Kern Hendricks

America’s War in Afghanistan Devastated the Country’s Environment in Ways That May Never Be Cleaned Up

By Lynzy Billing

Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

By Jake Bolster

Environmental activists protest outside City Hall in June.

Chicago Mayor Unveils Reforms to Fight Environmental Racism

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

A Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Center hospital in Miami Beach. A study found that some zip codes in Miami had more than four times the number of emergency room visits and hospitalizations related to heat compared with other neighborhoods, a disparity that correlated somewhat with the distribution of formerly redlined neighborhoods. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

In Miami, It’s No Coincidence Marginalized Neighborhoods Are Hotter

By Amy Green

In Darrow, Louisiana, Monique Harden of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice talks to residents about carbon capture at the Hillaryville Pavilion in June. Credit: Emily Kask for the Washington Post via Getty Images.

Q&A: The EPA Dropped a Civil Rights Probe in Louisiana After the State’s AG Countered With a Reverse Discrimination Suit

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

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