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A landscape in Zambia 12 weeks after a Chinese copper mine spilled toxic waste laced with heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and uranium. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Waste Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts

By Katie Surma
Eshaan Vakil (left), an organizer with Climate Defiance, and Barbara Sheehan, with Sunrise Movement, are two of the activists who disrupted a panel discussion with Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub at a Harvard climate symposium on Friday. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

Climate Activists Disrupt Fossil Fuel Executive at Harvard University Symposium

By Phil McKenna
The Dark Star Mine Pit of the proposed South Railroad Mine, if approved and built, would be dug into this area. Credit: Great Basin Resource Watch

One of the First to Benefit From Trump’s Cuts to Environmental Review: a Nevada Gold Mine

By Wyatt Myskow
Duane Brankley stands outside his home in Chesterfield County, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Dominion’s Proposed Peaker Plant Flouts Environmental Justice, Community Says

By Charles Paullin
Cheryl Johnson’s Chicago nonprofit, People for Community Recovery, was part of a coalition that received a $2.8 million grant funded through the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. The Trump administration canceled it this year after just $32,000 were disbursed. Credit: Zubaer Khan/Chicago Sun-Times

New Map Shows $29 Billion in Climate and Environment Grants Canceled or Frozen by Trump

By Dylan Baddour
Nonprofits working in environmental justice communities like this one, in Pueblo, Colorado, have filed a notice of appeal in federal court in a lawsuit they filed to secure grants provided through the Inflation Reduction Act that the Trump administration rescinded in early 2025. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Environmentalists and Local Governments Appeal Dismissal of Case Over Trump’s Cancellation of Justice Grants

By Charles Paullin
Near Moku, Haut-Uélé province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an Indigenous Mbuti woman points to a flooded, abandoned mine where her young relative drowned. Credit: Courtesy of PAX

Chinese Miners Accused of Gold Pillage, Environmental Destruction in DRC

By Katie Surma
People gather for a protest against the disappearance of Mapuche leader and environmental defender Julia Chuñil in front of La Moneda Palace on April 8 in Santiago, Chile. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images

An Average Week in 2024: Three Environmental Defenders Murdered or Disappeared

By Katie Surma

Fearing Retaliation, Scientists Are Struggling to Share Impacts of Federal Cuts

By Kiley Price
A natural gas well pad is seen in southwest Pennsylvania. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

Two Pennsylvania Towns Seek Public Funding for Water Systems Amid Claims That Gas Industry Contaminated Wells

By Jon Hurdle
A hog farm in eastern North Carolina. Credit: Rick Dove

Trump Cancels Study on Health Impacts of Industrialized Hog Farms That Produce Biogas

By Lisa Sorg
People walk along the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay following heavy rain and flooding in North Beach, Md., on Aug. 9, 2024. Credit: Tom Brenner/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Experts, Officials Clash Over Maryland’s Latest Stormwater Permit

By Aman Azhar
The former DuPont chemical manufacturing facility at the Repauno Port and Rail Terminal in New Jersey is being cleaned up for PFAS contamination. Credit: Office of the NJ Attorney General

Chemical Manufacturing Made New Jersey the ‘PFAS Toilet for the Country’

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference at City Hall on June 26. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

With a Mayoral Election Coming Up, This Is Where NYC Stands on Climate Action

By Lauren Dalban
The water chestnut, an aquatic invasive species, covers a large portion of Van Cortlandt Park’s large main pond in the Bronx borough of New York City. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

Mayor Eric Adams’ Unfulfilled Promise for New York City Parks

By Lauren Dalban
A landscape in Zambia 12 weeks after Sino-Metals spilled toxic waste laced with heavy metals including lead, arsenic and uranium. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Zambia Ordered a Mining Company to Pay Villagers After a Toxic Waste Spill. The Firm Made Them Sign Away Their Rights First

By Katie Surma
A blackened pipe with a large gout of flame swirling out of the top.

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells

By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and Mark Olalde, ProPublica
An illegal deforestation camp is seen on Isconahua indigenous land in Peru’s Amazon region. Credit: Courtesy of ORPIO

Peru to Consider New Reserve for Uncontacted Indigenous People

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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