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

UN Secretary-General António Guterres appears on a screen as he delivers a remote speech at the opening of a session of the UN Human Rights Council on Feb. 28, 2022 in Geneva. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

‘Delay is Death,’ said UN Chief António Guterres of the New IPCC Report Showing Climate Impacts Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts

By Bob Berwyn

Chevron's oil refinery in Richmond, California, is the state's single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and is located in a city where people of color make up more than 60 percent of the population, and nearly 15 percent of households fall below the federal poverty line. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Why Do Environmental Justice Advocates Oppose Carbon Markets? Look at California, They Say

By Kristoffer Tigue

Opponents of a metal-shredding operation have fought Mayor Lori Lightfoot since she took office almost three years ago. In this 2020 photo, demonstrators lined up near the mayor’s home. Credit: Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Mayor Slow to Act on Promises to Build Green Economy by Repurposing Polluted Industrial Sites

By Brett Chase

Researchers Say Science Skewed by Racism is Increasing the Threat of Global Warming to People of Color

By Bob Berwyn

Commuters struggle to move forward in a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Sept. 23, 2021. Credit: Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Activists Take Aim at an Expressway Project in Karachi, Saying it Will Only Heighten Climate Threats

By Zoha Tunio

Maasai homes in in Tanzania. Credit: Roger de la Harpe/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Conservation has a Human Rights Problem. Can the New UN Biodiversity Plan Solve it? 

By Katie Surma

Kevin Chang on the left) and other delegates from Hawai'i working on Motion 048, at the World Conservation Congress in Marseille. Credit: Audrey Gray

Nature’s Say: How Voices from Hawai’i Are Reframing the Climate Conversation 

By Audrey Gray

Maya van Rossum (second from left), the leader of the green amendment movement, attends the Walking 4 Climate rally outside the New Mexico State Capitol with New Mexico legislators and community members on Jan. 17, 2022. Credit: Green Amendment For the Generations

New Mexico Could Be the Fourth State to Add a Green Amendment to Its Constitution, But Time Is Short

By Aydali Campa

An installer for the solar company, Sunrun, uses a level while installing solar panels on the roof of a home in Granada Hills. Credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Is the California Coalition Fighting Subsidies For Rooftop Solar a Fake Grassroots Group?

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers, Dan Gearino

People make their way trough traffic on Jan. 18, 2018 in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

As States Move to Electrify Their Fleets, Activists Demand Greater Environmental Justice Focus

By Kristoffer Tigue

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. Credit: Central Press/Getty Images

Inspired by King’s Words, Experts Say the Fight for Climate Justice Anywhere is a Fight for Climate Justice Everywhere

By James Bruggers

A young fingerling Chinook salmon leaps out of the water on May 16, 2018 in Half Moon Bay, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River

By Katie Surma

President Joe Biden speaks to the press after attending a meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill, on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Amid Delayed Action and White House Staff Resignations, Activists Wonder What’s Next for Biden’s Environmental Agenda

By Kristoffer Tigue, Ariel Gans

Video: Aerial Detectives Dive Deep Into North Carolina’s Hog and Poultry Waste Problem

By Aman Azhar

A handful of soil in Lamont, California. Credit: Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Is a State Program to Foster Sustainable Farming Leaving Out Small-Scale Growers and Farmers of Color?

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Outside Orlando, Florida, the 6 megawatt Stanton Solar Farm. Archer, where the Archer Solar Project was proposed, is 110 miles northwest of Orlando. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

An African American Community in Florida Blocked Two Proposed Solar Farms. Then the Florida Legislature Stepped In.

By Aman Azhar

In San Francisco, some air polluting facilities are allowed to operate for years on draft permits in violation of the Clean Air Act. Credit: Frank DiMarco/Via Getty Images

In San Francisco’s Most Polluted Neighborhood, the Polluters Operate Without Proper Permits, Reports Say

By Elena Shao

An Iraqi oil pipeline burns after sabotage by anti-U.S., pro-Saddam militants Sept. 8, 2003 near Kirkuk, in northern Iraq. Credit: Scott Peterson/Getty Images

After the Wars in Iraq, ‘Everything Living is Dying’

By Lynzy Billing

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