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

With machete in hand, Isiah Cruz clears a patch of invasive common reed along the Passaic River’s edge. Credit: Anna Mattson/Inside Climate News

The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey’s Most Contaminated River

By Anna Mattson

Firefighters battle flames from the Canyon Fire on Aug. 7 in Castaic, Calif. Credit: Eric Thayer/Getty Images

Canyon Wildfire in Los Angeles Forces Thousands to Evacuate

By Keerti Gopal

A bus pulls into the entrance to the immigration detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades on Aug. 3 in Ochopee, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Federal Judge Halts New Construction at Alligator Alcatraz

By Amy Green

A green heron is seen in South Jersey’s Black Run Reserve. Credit: Adam Nolan/Climate Revolution Action Network

Led by Gen Z Activists, Community Opposition Mounts to Residential Development Next to South Jersey’s Black Run Reserve

By Naaja Flowers

Despite Presidente Kennedy receiving record amounts of oil revenues per capita, the town still suffers form poor infrastructure. Credit: José Cícero/Agência Pública

‘Where’s the Money Going?’: Why Brazilian Towns Awash With Royalties From Oil Are Still Among the Poorest

By Rafael Oliveira, Agência Pública and the Guardian

Samuel Corona (right), an activist with the Alliance of the Southeast, chants, “Stop General Iron” outside Chicago’s City Hall. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says it will no longer monitor a civil rights agreement with Chicago over the controversial scrap metal operation. Credit: Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Trump Dismisses Civil Rights, Fair Housing Cases in Chicago To Focus on ‘Real Concerns’

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

John Nordstrom stands before a rock dam he built on his property in Patagonia, Ariz., on July 9. Rock dams slows the speed of water, allowing it to better recharge the aquifer underground. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

As a Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Arizona, Residents Fear It’s Already Affecting Area Water

By Wyatt Myskow

Reb Spring (left), the spokesperson for Debt for Climate, joins activists from Planet Over Profit to protest outside Wells Fargo’s corporate offices in New York City on July 23. Credit: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images

Activists Target Wells Fargo for Dropping its Climate Commitments

By Ryan Krugman

Betty Osceola, a member of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, walks in the Everglades a few yards from the front entrance to Alligator Alcatraz on July 10. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

To Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe, the Lands Around Alligator Alcatraz Are Sacred, Pythons and All

By Amy Green

Vice President JD Vance (left) and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speak to the press outside on recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene in Damascus, Va., in January 2025. Nonprofits in parts of Southwest Virginia devastated by the storm want a restoration of climate resiliency funding terminated by the Trump administration. Credit: Ben Curtis/AFP via Getty Images

Environmental Groups, EPA Spar In Court Over Trump’s Cancellation of Resiliency Funding

By Charles Paullin

Luis Vayas Valdivieso, chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, speaks during the second part of the fifth session of the INC on Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: Florian Fussstetter/UNEP

Nations Meet in Geneva in a Final Push to End Plastic Pollution

By Liza Gross

Outside the town of Mammoth, Ariz., is the site of a mesquite forest owned by the mining company Resolution Copper. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Copper Mines Close in on Western Apache Sacred Site, and the Forest Protected to Mitigate The Damage

By Wyatt Myskow

A view of the Shenango coke plant in Pittsburgh in December 2012. Credit: Allegheny County Clean Air Now

Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered

By Kiley Bense

Air conditioning units hang out the windows of a housing project during a summer heat wave in the Bronx borough of New York on July 11, 2024. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

New York Can’t Meet Its Ambitious Climate Targets. Maybe the Plan Was Doomed From the Start

By Lauren Dalban

Cleanup takes place at the former DuPont Pompton Lakes Works manufacturing site in New Jersey. Credit: Borough of Pompton Lakes

Amid Federal PFAS Rollbacks, New Jersey Scores Record $2 Billion DuPont Settlement

By Rambo Talabong

The Dragon Bravo Fire burns through the North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park on July 11. Credit: Grand Canyon National Park via Getty Images

Grand Canyon Fire Is Now the Largest Burning in the Nation

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Two men fish in a small boat on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in Chester, Md., on May 30, 2024. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Experts Slam Chesapeake Bay Draft Plan Over Lack of Pollution Targets and Accountability

By Aman Azhar

Wind power makes up 18-20 percent of Sweden's electricity, but many projects are now stopped by municipal or military vetoes, and decreased government subsidies. Credit: Marcus Haraldsson

Sweden, an Early Climate Leader, Is Retreating From Its Environmental Commitments, Part of an EU Trend

By Marcus Haraldsson

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