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Trucks drive along the BR-163 highway through the Amazon rainforest in Pará, Brazil. Credit: Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images

The Brazilian Supreme Court Makes Way for the ‘Grain Train’

By Georgina Gustin

Vishal Prasad, director of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change, speaks to the media after an International Court of Justice session in The Hague on July 23, 2025. Credit: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

A Youth-Led Campaign Claims a Win For Climate Justice

By Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of the nearly 600-acre coal ash pond at Alabama Power’s James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Ash Lawsuit Can Continue, Appeals Court Rules

By Dennis Pillion

Hanson Professional Services vice president John Michael at his office in Corpus Christi on Monday. “Let’s hold all of our regional system hostage while they wait for their data center,” Michael said. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Leaders Believe Data Center Plans May Be Behind Delays to Emergency Water Supply

By Emily Salazar, Dylan Baddour

Former Vice President Al Gore sits for an interview in Nashville on May 1. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

20 Years After ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ Al Gore Grapples With the (Big) Wrinkle of AI

By Lee Hedgepeth

Scott Schuyler of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe negotiated with Seattle City Light for nearly a decade to hammer out an agreement for fish passage around three dams on the Skagit River. Credit: Blaine Harden/Inside Climate News

After a Century Powering Its Growth With Dams, Seattle Settles With Tribes That Lost Their River

By Blaine Harden

Laura Sofía García Canto, a program manager at Plenitud, works on the water treatment system installation at the nonprofit in Las Marías, Puerto Rico.

In Puerto Rico, an Innovative Water Treatment System Fortifies a Community

Story and photos by Sarah Mattalian

A crew works to plug an orphaned well in the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge of Oklahoma.

Plugging Away at the Millions of Derelict Oil and Gas Wells in the US

Story and photos by J. Matt

EPA staff visit a Superfund site in Clearlake Oaks, Calif., on Jan. 30, 2024. Credit: Jane Tyska/East Bay Times via Getty Images

New Jersey Leads the Nation in Superfund Sites as EPA Funding Cuts and Staff Reductions Threaten Cleanups

By Anna Mattson

Alannah Hurley, executive director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, is the winner of the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for North America. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Rain is falling harder and faster around Chicago, creating more severe flooding. Experts say it’s going to get worse, creating an urgency to plan ahead. Credit: Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Flooding in Chicago Is Getting Worse. Here’s Why.

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Graves mark the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where U.S. troops killed more than 250 Lakota men, women and children. Credit: Carla Samon Ros/CJI

How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

Māori communities march to advocate for the interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi and Indigenous rights on Nov. 19, 2024, in Wellington, New Zealand. Credit: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

What the US Could Learn About Mining on Indigenous Peoples’ Ancestral Lands

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

Bernard Rowe, managing director of Ioneer, points to the site of the company’s planned lithium mine on Nevada’s Rhyolite Ridge. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

How We Tracked the Lithium Rush

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

A Los Angeles gas station on April 30, 2026. Californians are reckoning with surging gas prices—the highest nationwide according to data from the motor club, AAA. Gasoline prices have surged as the war in Iran continues. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

California Drivers Are Paying a More Than $6 a Gallon Price for the War in Iran

By Steven Rodas

A view of Dry Fork, one of the nation’s newest coal-fired power plants, in Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Western Lawmakers Move To Weaken Clean Air Act and Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawsuits

By Jake Bolster

People walk through as flooded street as they evacuate during a storm on June 12, 2024, in Hollywood, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Trump’s Environmental Cuts Further Marginalize Vulnerable Communities

By Amy Green

Mining trucks load lithium sulfate in Chile’s Atacama Salt Flat on July 29, 2024. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images

How to Think About the Extractive Problem of Lithium Mining

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

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