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On the Historic Route From Selma to Montgomery, an AI Cloud Looms

In this rural Alabama community, some residents can’t flush their toilets. Developers want to build a state-of-the-art data center next door.

By Lee Hedgepeth

Hayneville residents gather in a middle school now closed due to a declining local population for an open house with developers of a proposed hyperscale data center campus. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News
Diane Wilson (right), Sharon Lavigne (left) and Nancy Bui display pictures of Vietnamese activists jailed for demanding reparations over the Formosa Plastics’ 2016 chemical spill disaster on May 28 in Taipei. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

An aerial view of the Brookhaven landfill in New York. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Troubled by Spreading Landfill Pollution, a Long Island Community Demands Action

By Lauren Dalban

People visit the Climate Action Campaign’s pop-up exhibit in Washington, D.C. Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Climate News

A New DC ‘Museum’ Raises Awareness About the Looming Consequences of Extreme Weather

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

Eva Lighthiser, lead plaintiff in Lighthiser v. Trump, stands at the U.S. Capitol in July 2025. Credit: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images

Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Youth Climate Case Against Trump

By Dana Drugmand

Workers strike at the JBS Beef Production Facility in Greeley, Colo., on March 16. Credit: Brice Tucker/MediaNews Group/Greeley Tribune via Getty Images

Greenpeace Plans to Sue JBS for Its Climate Impacts, Seeks Details About Major Plans in Nigeria

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 Project Boson, the future site of a nearly 620,000-square-foot data center surrounded by homes and a school in Archbald, Pa. Credit: Heather Ainsworth/The Washington Post via Getty Images

An Outpouring of Frustration Over Pennsylvania’s Rapid Data Center Growth

By Jon Hurdle

Environmental advocates join state legislators and health care professionals to urge the passage of the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act on Monday in Albany, N.Y. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images

New York Plastics Law Advances Amid Debate Over ‘Chemical Recycling’

By Lauren Dalban

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

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

Yuvelis Morales Blanco stands next to Colombia’s Magdalena River. Credit: Christian EscobarMora for the Goldman Environmental Prize

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia’s Magdalena River From Fracking

By Katie Surma

People gather for the first Earth Day event in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Credit: Jack Rosen/Getty Images

The History of Earth Day—and Why It Still Matters

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Tony and Carra Harris at the Cherokee Garden outside Atlanta. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

The Cherokee Rose, Georgia’s State Flower, Actually Has Nothing to Do With the Cherokee People—or the State

By Ryan Krugman

“Lamentors” wear sackcloth and ash, mourning the Trump administration’s decision to overturn a landmark climate regulation rule, outside EPA Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday. Credit: ProBonoPhoto.org/Rachel Podlishevsky

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

By Liza Gross

Kim Hicks paints a message opposing a proposed data center onto a neighborhood rock near the Project Ruby site in Muscogee County, Ga., part of a growing grassroots effort against the development. Credit: Courtesy of Kim Hicks

Data Center Boom Reaches West Georgia, Raising Questions Amid Mounting Opposition

By Jade Yeban

Diane Wilson sits in her tent, 14 days into her hunger strike, outside Dow’s Seadrift complex on March 16.

A Hunger Strike Ends, but an ‘Unreasonable’ Woman’s Battle Against Corporate Polluters Marches On

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

Nazir Khan, co-founder of the Minnesota Environmental Justice Table, speaks during a rally on Friday at the Hennepin County Government Center near City Hall to launch a hunger strike against a polluting trash incinerator. Credit: Courtesy of Geoff Dittberner/Zero Burn Coalition

Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

By Keerti Gopal

A statue of Jesus stands outside the Passionist monastery in Louisville, Ky. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

Looking to Jesus and Buddha, a Kentucky Passionist Priest Finds Hope Amid an Enveloping Global Environmental Crisis

By James Bruggers

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