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

A former soybean field and six-acre earthen basin in Castana, Iowa, where a private developer planned to dump dehydrated manure from an out-of-town slaughterhouse. Credit: Scott Koepsell

Secret Plan to Dump Slaughterhouse Waste Blindsided Residents of Iowa’s Loess Hills

By Anika Jane Beamer

A bomb-fished coral reef in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: The Ocean Agency

Bomb Fishing Is Reducing Coral Reefs to ‘Rubble’

By Johnny Sturgeon

A sloth named Willow was one of five transferred from Sloth World to the Central Florida Zoo that later died. Credit: Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens

More than 50 Sloths Died at a Florida Wildlife Attraction. Officials Say No Crime Occurred.

By Katie Surma, Kiley Price

Allegheny County Fire Marshal vehicles are seen near the entrance to U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works following an explosion at the plant on Aug. 11, 2025. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

Safety Failures Led to Last Year’s Fatal Explosion at U.S. Steel Plant

By Jon Hurdle

A man moves a chair in Tampa, Fla., as people remove debris and clean their homes after flooding caused by Hurricane Milton on Oct. 11, 2024. Credit: Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Change Reshuffles Where People Are Moving in Florida

By Mike Schneider

Proposed Data Centers Could Use More Electricity Than All Alabama Homes Combined, Analysis Shows. Who Will Pay?

By Lee Hedgepeth

Marathon Petroleum’s El Paso Refinery contributes to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

El Paso Officials Seek Answers Following Emissions at Marathon Refinery

By Martha Pskowski

A Steller sea lion rests on a rock in Alaska. Credit: NOAA

NOAA’s New Priorities Put Profits Ahead of Marine Protections

By Johnny Sturgeon

Farmworkers weed a bell pepper field during a heat wave, in Camarillo, Calif., on July 3 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

As Temperatures Get Hotter, Pesticides Are More Dangerous to Farmworkers

By Amy Green

A resident of Guatemala’s Santa María Xalapán mountains gathers litter, most of it plastic, from under a fence along the road through the region during a community cleanup organized by Soila Elizabeth Cruz.

Empowering Guatemalan Villagers Plagued by Plastic

Story by Liza Gross, photos by Michael Kodas

Along with the Cultural Survival group and other allies, leaders from the A'uwe Xavante held a separate event within the UN's Palais des Nations called "Let the Xavante Dream," outlining the dangers the FICO project pose to the Ró—the Xavante word for the Cerrado biome in Brazil's center-west region. Credit: Courtesy of Cultural Survival

‘The Energy Transition Cannot Become A New Form Of Colonial Violence,’ Brazilian Indigenous Leaders Tell UN Conference

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

Junto do grupo Cultural Survival e outros aliados, lideranças do povo Xavante organizaram um evento chamado "Let the Xavante Dream" dentro do palácio das Nações Unidas. Lá, eles delinearam os perigos que o projeto FICO trará para o Ró—nome Xavante dado ao bioma do Cerrado. Cortesia de Cultural Survival

‘A Transição Energética Não Pode Se Tornar Uma Nova Forma de Violência Colonial,’ Dizem Lideranças Indígenas Brasileiras Às Nações Unidas

Por Gabriel Matias Castilho

Legendary farmworker activist Dolores Huerta speaks at a press conference in Sacramento before a legislative oversight hearing on the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Pesticide Agency Hopelessly Captured by Industry, Critics Charge

By Liza Gross

An Amazon data center is under construction in rural Hamlet, N.C. Credit: Courtesy of Larry Baldwin/NC Environmental Advocacy Corps

The Data Center Industry’s PR Blitz Is Backfiring

By Lisa Sorg

A dragline excavator operates in an open-pit phosphate mine in Florida in 1958. Credit: D.C. Crawford/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Florida Makes It Harder for Residents Living on Radioactive Soil From Former Phosphate Mines to Sue

By Lisa Spear

A wild howler monkey is seen in the branches of a tree in Comalcalco, Mexico, on May 20, 2024. Credit: Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images

Microplastics Found in Mexican Howler Monkeys Living in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

By Andrés Muedano

A man cools off in a fountain at Inner Harbor in Baltimore during a heat wave on June 30, 2021. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Maryland Breaks Heat-Related Death Record With Weeks of Summer to Go

By Aman Azhar

Mina Guli runs through haze during her nearly 1,800-mile journey down the Colorado River on June 21. Credit: Andrew King

Wildfires and Extreme Heat Challenge Water Activist’s Attempt to Run the Length of the Colorado River

By Maya McDaniel

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