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A group gathers for an in-person session of the Good Grief Network facilitated by LaUra Schmidt (center left) in Salt Lake City. Credit: Leah Hogsten

Group Therapy Sessions Proliferate for People Afflicted With ‘Eco-Distress’

By Nina Dietz

An aerial view of the Fifth Ward Elementary School in Reserve, Louisiana, with the nation’s only chloroprene plant in the background. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Louisiana, Environmental Justice Advocates Ponder Next Steps After a Federal Judge Effectively Bars EPA Civil Rights Probes

By Victoria St. Martin

Farmworkers pick strawberries on a field in Oxnard, Calif. Growers applied more than 60 million pounds of the fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene on crops such as strawberries to kill nematodes and other soil-dwelling organisms in 2018, the most recent year data is available. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

Robert Shipp, 75, of Bastrop, sweats while receiving treatment from Austin-Travis County EMS first responders inside an ambulance during a 102 degree day in Del Valle, Texas, on July 7, 2023. According to the EMS crew, he passed out while searching for car parts under the hot sun. Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune

Texas Likely Undercounting Heat-Related Deaths

By Yuriko Schumacher, Emily Foxhall, Alejandra Martinez, Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Psychiatrist Lise van Susteren is a co-founder of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance and the Climate Psychology Alliance-North America. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Almost 20 Years Ago, a Mid-Career Psychiatrist Started Thinking About Climate Anxiety and Mental Health

By Nina Dietz

Tennessee renters are largely left responsible for window units to keep their homes cool if a landlord doesn't provide one. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Slow Wheels of Policy Leave Low-Income Residents of Nashville Feeling Brunt of Warming Climate

By Jonmaesha Beltran

The need for air conditioning in schools is overwhelming. One report shows that 36,000 schools nationwide don’t have adequate HVAC systems. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Extreme Heat Is Making Schools Hotter—and Learning Harder

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

A new study found toxic metals like lead and arsenic in tampons. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images

After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought

By Victoria St. Martin

An aerial view of the ExxonMobil Baytown Complex in Houston. Credit: Mark Felix/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Three Facilities Contribute Half of Houston’s Chemical Air Pollution

By Dylan Baddour

At the Olympics, Heat Can Raise the Danger Bar of Competitions

By Kiley Price

Rural Fire Service firefighters are seen by containment lines at the Three Mile Fire during “Black Summer” on the Central Coast of Australia in December 2019. Studies have examined the psychological impacts of the unprecedented bushfire season. Credit: Sam Mooy/Getty Images

In the Developing Field of Climate Psychology, ‘Eco-Anxiety’ Is a Rational Response

By Nina Dietz

JeNiyah Scaife, an intern at the CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, works in a lab on a new test that will help to detect a species of mosquito that can carry malaria. Credit: CDC

To Help Stop Malaria’s Spread, CDC Researchers Create a Test to Find a Mosquito That Is Flourishing Thanks to Climate Change

By Victoria St. Martin

New York officials are cleaning up the former Ithaca Gun Factory site that's contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE, a known human carcinogen that's been linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease. Credit: Walter Hang

New York Regulators Found High Levels of TCE in Kindra Bell’s Ithaca Home. They Told Her Not to Worry

By Jordan Gass-Pooré

Farmworkers wear protective clothing while working in a bell pepper field through a heat wave on July 3 in Camarillo, California. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Will the Nation’s First Heat Protection Standard Safeguard the Most Vulnerable Workers?

By Liza Gross

Tourists Are Feeling the Heat—and Their Bodies May Not Be Able to Catch Up

By Kiley Price

A construction crew works in extreme heat as they build homes on July 1 in Fontana, California. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

First Heat Protection Standards for Workers Proposed by Biden Administration

By Marianne Lavelle

A woman gets water from a fountain in Manhattan as a heat wave blankets New York City on June 21. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

How To Survive a Heat Wave on a Fixed Income

By Gautama Mehta, Grist

Environmental justice advocate Sharon Lavigne is worried about a proposed plastics plant near her home in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

For Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Study Shows An Even Graver Risk From Toxic Gases

By Victoria St. Martin

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