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

Village in Bulakan is flooded by the high tide. The islands in Manila Bay in Bulacan Province are being inundated by every high tide as the sea advances. Credit: James Whitlow Delano

Sinking Land and Rising Seas Threaten Manila Bay’s Coastal Communities

Story and photos by James Whitlow Delano

A view of the U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Works on Jan. 21, 2020, in North Braddock, Pennsylvania. White plumes of smoke billow above western Pennsylvania's rolling hills into the frigid air as scorching ovens bake coal, which rolls in by the trainload along the Monongahela River. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Tiny Soot Particles from Fossil Fuel Combustion Kill Thousands Annually. Activists Now Want Biden to Impose Tougher Standards

By Victoria St. Martin

Nighttime traffic rolls into downtown Austin along Interstate 35 at Manor Road in a time-exposure from the highway overpass. Credit: Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images

Activists Are Suing Texas Over Its Plan to Expand Interstate 35, Saying the Project Is Bad for Environmental Justice and the Climate

By Camryn Garza, Kristoffer Tigue

Pascale Fisher, a family nurse practitioner, checks a baby’s heartbeat at La Clínica's San Antonio Neighborhood Health Center in Oakland. Credit: Ana Homonnay/La Clínica de La Raza, Inc.

New Toolkit of Health Guidance Helps Patients and Care Providers on the Front Lines of Climate Change Prepare for Wildfires

By Victoria St. Martin

Marine Corps Sgt. David E. Martin assists a veteran during his visit to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in 2014, during an event for unhoused veterans. Photo by Sgt. Alvin Williams Jr., courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Climate Change Makes Things Harder for Unhoused Veterans

By Sonner Kehrt, The War Horse

An LNG tanker makes its way into Cameron Pass near the site of Venture Global LNGs facility at Cameron Pass, near Cameron, Louisiana, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Credit: Getty Images

Protesters Rally at Gas Summit in Louisiana, Where Industry Eyes a Fossil Fuel Buildout

By Dylan Baddour

Aerial view of an illegal logging operation in Humaitá, southern Amazonas State, Brazil, on Sept. 17, 2022. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images

Lawyers Press International Court to Investigate a ‘Network’ Committing Crimes Against Humanity in Brazil’s Amazon

By Katie Surma

Kenosha water tower is seen in front of Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Nov. 4, 2021. Credit: Youngrae Kim for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Wisconsin Advocates Push to Ensure $700 Million in Water Infrastructure Improvements Go to Those Who Need It Most

By Aydali Campa

Blanca Chancosa, juíza do Tribunal Internacional dos Direitos da Natureza e líder indígena equatoriana, examina parte da maior mina de minério de ferro do mundo, de propriedade da gigante brasileira de mineração Vale, em 23 de julho de 2022. Crédito: Katie Surma

Mil Milhas na Amazônia, para Mudar a Maneira como o Mundo Funciona

By Katie Surma

For the Third Time, Black Residents in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Neighborhood File a Civil Rights Complaint to Fend Off Polluting Infrastructure

By Dylan Baddour

Motorists navigate surface streets during a heavy rainfall on April 18, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Chicago Institutions Just Got $25 Million to Study Local Effects of Climate Change. Here’s How They Plan to Use It

By Aydali Campa

Torched cars sit amid the cinders and ash that remain from the Lincoln Heights neighborhood below the Roseburg Forest Products lumber mill and Mount Shasta in Weed, California. The Mill Fire destoyed the historic Black neighborhood in early September. Credit: Michael Kodas

A Timber Mill Below Mount Shasta Gave Rise to a Historic Black Community, and Likely Sparked the Wildfire That Destroyed It

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

In Atlanta, voters check-in with poll workers to cast their ballots at the Metropolitan Library on November 3, 2020. Credit: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images

Poll: Climate Change Is a Key Issue in the Midterm Elections Among Likely Voters of Color

By Victoria St. Martin

Juan Mancias, chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo tribe, at the Eli Jackson Cemetery in San Juan, Texas on Feb. 11, 2019. Credit: Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune

Indigenous Leaders in Texas Target Global Banks to Keep LNG Export Off of Sacred Land at the Port of Brownsville

By Dylan Baddour

Floodwaters cover an access road to oil refineries Sept. 25, 2005 in Port Arthur, Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. Credit: Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images

In Texas, a New Study Will Determine Where Extreme Weather Hazards and Environmental Justice Collide

By Victoria St. Martin

Eel Pond (background left) is a lagoon that connects to Great Harbor. Marine Biological Laboratory's main campus, including Lillie Lab (left building), is at risk when Eel Pond floods. Credit: Matt Barton/© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Community and Climate Risk in a New England Village

By Hannah Loss

A general view of the Maryland State House prior to the opening of the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis, Maryland on Jan. 13, 2021. Credit: Will Newton for The Washington Post via Getty Images

A University of Maryland Center Just Gave Most State Agencies Ds and Fs on an Environmental Justice ‘Scorecard’

By Aman Azhar

Blanca Chancosa, a judge with the International Rights of Nature tribunal and an Ecuadorian Indigenous leader, looks into part of the world's largest iron ore mine owned by the Brazilian mining giant Vale on July 23, 2022. Credit: Katie Surma

A Thousand Miles in the Amazon, to Change the Way the World Works

By Katie Surma

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