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

Val Verde and Castaic residents call for the Chiquita Canyon Landfill to be closed during a protest in Castaic, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door

By Liza Gross

The Tapanuli orangutan is threatened by a Chinese-built hydroelectric dam in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Credit: Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari and Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme

The Chinese Dam Threatening the World’s Most Endangered Ape

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A vendor sells bottled water while shading himself with an umbrella at the exit of the Paso del Norte International Bridge during triple-digit temperatures in El Paso on Aug. 7.

El Paso’s Heat Is Killing in Record Numbers. It May Only Get Worse

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

The Wind River Indian Reservation is home to the Northern Arapaho and the Eastern Shoshone tribes. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Tribal Solar Projects Meet Different Fates in Wyoming After Trump Administration Kills Funding

By Jake Bolster

Waste pickers carry plastic materials to recycle at the Gioto dumping site in Nakuru, Kenya. Credit: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

From Landfills and Recycling Programs to Desks in Offices, Toxic Chemicals in Plastics Poison Workers

By Liza Gross

Ambulances respond to an explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works on Monday in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

‘It Didn’t Have to Be This Way’: After Another Explosion at Clairton Coke Works, Advocates Call for Accountability

By Kiley Bense

Delegates rest outside of the assembly hall in Geneva, after talks aimed at striking a landmark treaty on plastic pollution ended with no consensus. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Plastic Pollution Talks in Geneva End Without Treaty

By Bob Berwyn

Activists march across the Brooklyn Bridge to demand that Gov. Kathy Hochul stop the construction of the Williams pipeline in New York. Credit: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

New York Already Denied Permits to These Gas Pipelines. Under Trump, They Could Get Greenlit

By Deep Vakil

A lifeguard stands watch amid a haze of Canadian wildfire smoke at Loyola Beach on Chicago’s North Side in June. The West and South sides of the city get heavy air pollution all year. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Chicago Aims To Have Most Air Pollution Sensors in the US

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Waorani people protest against the oil tenders opened by the Ecuadorian Government on May 13 in Quito, Ecuador. Credit: Franklin Jacome/Agencia Press South via Getty Images

US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports

By Katie Surma, Peter Aldhous

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, lead has been detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death

By Lisa Sorg

Cyclists stop at a water station along the RAGBRAI route in Iowa. Credit: Len Radin/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

RAGBRAI, the World’s Largest Recreational Bike Ride, Is Getting Hotter and Harder

By Anika Jane Beamer

Then Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 29, 2006, as states argued against the EPA’s inaction on global warming. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Will Endangerment Finding Repeal Trigger New State Actions on Climate?

By Marianne Lavelle

Manning Rollerson speaks in front of a crowd of demonstrators outside Chubb Insurance’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters in New York City. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

A Week of Gulf South Solidarity in New York City

By Ryan Krugman

A man tries to cool off with fire hydrant water in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan as extreme heat blankets New York City on July 25. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Broiled by Heat Waves, Residents of the Concrete Jungle Suffer

By Lauren Dalban

Students from Northern Illinois University prepare to launch a weather balloon to capture data on temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction. Credit: National Science Foundation ICECHIP

As Climate Change Makes Hail More Destructive, Illinois Residents Pay the Price

By Susan Cosier

Ben Jealous, pictured in a blue dress shirt and blue blazer, is beside microphones outdoors

After Turmoil and No-Confidence Votes, Sierra Club Terminates Ben Jealous 

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Heartbreak Hotel was destroyed when Hurricane Beryl reached Vermont as a post-tropical storm in July 2024. Credit: Nina Sablan/Inside Climate News

Moving on From the Heartbreak Hotel

By Nina Sablan

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