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A worker stripes an intersection on a hot afternoon in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 6. Credit: Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

The sun bears down on the Walk of Champions outside Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums

By Olivia McMurrey, Lee Hedgepeth

The photo show workers in hard hats and reflective vests in a trench with equipment.

Lawmakers Press EPA for $3B in Stalled Lead Pipe Replacement Funds

By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

Residents cultivate a Creole garden on land contaminated with chlordecone, a toxic pesticide, in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe. Credit: Mathilde Augustin/Inside Climate News

Two Caribbean Islands Seek Justice From France for Pesticide Poisoning

By Mathilde Augustin

Hannah Livesay, biologist at the Grand River Mosquito Control District, points out the characteristic white markings of an Aedes aegypti mosquito shown under a microscope at her lab in Grand Junction, Colo.

A Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Landed in the Rocky Mountains Where It Historically Couldn’t Survive

Story by Erin Douglas, photos by Isabella Escobedo

Adriana Valdez pulls back a drape to inspect the layer of ash coating her son’s toys at her home in Altadena on April 1.

For Many Disabled Fire Victims in Los Angeles, a Continuing Trauma

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

Arizona State University researchers use advanced mapping techniques to pinpoint locations where high levels of fecal bacteria are driving ocean contamination on West Hawaii’s coastline. Credit: Courtesy of ASU Global Airborne Observatory

Raw Sewage Sneaking Into West Hawaii’s Coastal Waters Threatens Coral Reefs and Public Health, Scientists Find

By Jaylan Sims

An aerial view of southwest Detroit featuring a Marathon petroleum refinery. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Detroit Is the Nation’s Most Challenging City for People with Asthma, a New Report Suggests

By K.R. Callaway

People try to stay cool on the sweltering streets of Manhattan as New York City experiences a heat wave on July 29. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

By Keerti Gopal

Communities in Monterey County are often embedded in agricultural fields. In the Pajaro Valley near Salinas, Calif., people are surrounded by strawberry fields, where growers apply large volumes of pesticides known to cause harm, including brain-damaging organophosphates and cancer-causing 1,3-D. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Sanctions Stark Disparities in Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy

By Liza Gross

People walk along the East River in Brooklyn at sunrise on Aug. 12, as New York City experiences an air quality health advisory. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Urban Heat and Air Pollution May Harm Developing Brains in the Womb, Study Suggests

By Jaylan Sims

Workers harvest kale on a farm in the Central Valley of Salinas, Calif. Credit: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Pesticides in Your Produce? Probably.

By Liza Gross

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

Nicholas Spada stands in front of an instument panel at UC Davis’ Crocker Nuclear Laboratory with a radiation exposure monitor prominently pinned to his shirt’s pocket on March 25.

Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires. He Thinks People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

A view of the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2016, where natural gas had been leaking from the Aliso Canyon storage facility since Oct. 23, 2015. Credit: Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images

Toxic Plumes from Aliso Canyon Gas Blowout Harmed Babies, Study Shows

By Liza Gross

A thick haze blankets New York City as smoke from Canadian wildfires impacts air quality on August 5. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

Smoke From Wildfires Caused by Climate Change Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in the U.S., a New Study Warns

By Phil McKenna

Madrid’s Emergency Medical Service workers transfer a prisoner from Valdemoro prison to Infanta Elena Hospital after he suffered heat stroke amid a heat wave in Spain. Credit: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images

Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows

By Bob Berwyn

A child sits on the shoulders of a rescue worker, who is wading through the water near other people. The water is reaching the adults' upper thighs. Buildings rise on either side of them.

Climate Change-Driven Floods Continue to Displace Millions in Pakistan

By Keerti Gopal

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