Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
Warming Trends: Nature and Health Studies Focused on the Privileged, $1B for Climate School and Old Tires Detour Into Concrete
By Katelyn Weisbrod
An Unprecedented Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Is Putting the Lives of More Than a Billion People at Risk
By Zoha Tunio
Activists Laud Biden’s New Environmental Justice Appointee, But Concerns Linger Over Equity and Funding
By Kristoffer Tigue
Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It
By Katie Surma
A Black Woman Fought for Her Community, and Her Life, Amidst Polluting Landfills and Vast ‘Borrow Pits’ Mined for Sand and Clay
By Agya K. Aning
EPA Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
By Victoria St. Martin
The ‘State of the Air’ in America Is Unhealthy and Getting Worse, Especially for People of Color
By Kristoffer Tigue
What Does Climate Justice in California Look Like?
By Liza Gross
In South Asia, Vehicle Exhaust, Agricultural Burning and In-Home Cooking Produce Some of the Most Toxic Air in the World
By Zoha Tunio
North Carolina’s Bet on Biomass Energy Is Faltering, With Energy Targets Unmet and Concerns About Environmental Justice
By Aman Azhar
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Unintended Consequences of ‘Fortress Conservation’
By Katie Surma
Global Warming Drove a Deadly Burst of Indian Ocean Tropical Storms
By Bob Berwyn
A Biomass Power Plant in Rural North Carolina Reignites Concerns Over Clean Energy and Environmental Justice
By Aman Azhar
Environmentalists in Chile Are Hoping to Replace the Country’s Pinochet-Era Legal Framework With an ‘Ecological Constitution’
By Katie Surma
Ecuador’s High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights
By Katie Surma
Complex Models Now Gauge the Impact of Climate Change on Global Food Production. The Results Are ‘Alarming’
By Georgina Gustin
