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Warming Trends: Sports and Climate Change in Texas, a Community Housing Project Named after Rachel Carson and an E-Bike Conversion Kit for Your Bicycle

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Chapin High School athletic trainer helps hydrate a football player during early morning practice in El Paso, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Teenage Floridian Has Spent Half His Life Involved in Climate Litigation. He’s Not Giving Up

By Amy Green

An Emory University student collects a blood sample from Carnetta Jones, right, at Cosmopolitan AME Church on Atlanta's west side on July 30, 2022. The university is studying the community's exposure to lead and other contaminants after high levels of lead were found in the soil of two historically Black neighborhoods. Credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon/Deep Indigo Collective for Inside Climate News

Progress in Baby Steps: Westside Atlanta Lead Cleanup Slowly Earns Trust With Help From Local Institutions

By Aydali Campa

Cars make their way toward downtown Los Angeles, notorious for traffic and air pollution, a silent killer now linked to brain development problems in young children. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Study Underscores That Exposure to Air Pollution Harms Brain Development in the Very Young

By Victoria St. Martin

Annie Moore, an English Avenue resident on Atlanta's west side, believes the lump of black rock on her lawn is lead-tainted slag. She worries that if the EPA replaces her dirt, it will lead to flooding on her property. Credit: Aydali Campa

A Fear of Gentrification Turns Clearing Lead Contamination on Atlanta’s Westside Into a ‘Two-Edged Sword’ for Residents

By Aydali Campa

EPA On-Scene Coordinator Chuck Berry fixes a sign on a yard his team cleaned on English Avenue on May 12, 2022. Since 2019, the agency has been testing soil in the study area, which spans more than 600 acres, for lead. Credit: Aydali Campa

In Atlanta, Work on a New EPA Superfund Site Leaves Black Neighborhoods Wary, Fearing Gentrification

By Aydali Campa

A polar bear mom and cub wander near the quarry on the outskirts of the town of Churchill. Credit: Madison Stevens/Polar Bears International

Warming Trends: A Possible Link Between Miscarriages and Heat, Trash-Eating Polar Bears and a More Hopeful Work of Speculative Climate Fiction

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Baltimore Public Works Museum (formerly Sewage Pumping Station) in Little Italy on April 9, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

A Federal Judge Wants More Information on Polluting Discharges From Baltimore’s Troubled Sewage Treatment Plants

By Aman Azhar

At the Greater & Greener Conference, Urban Parks Officials and Advocates Talk Equity and Climate Change

By Daelin Brown

Red mangrove seed pods hang near Captiva Island in Florida. Credit: Rosie Betancourt/Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Mangrove Tree Offspring Travel Through Water Currents. How will Changing Ocean Densities Alter this Process?

By Hannah Loss

Emma Duarte, 40, and her daughter Emily Juarez Duarte, 2, try and catch a breeze in the doorway of their trailer in the Corkill Park RV & Mobile Homes in Desert Hot Springs on June 10, 2021. Their RV park suffered power loss from time to time and during recent extreme heat waves. Credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

When the Power Goes Out, Who Suffers? Climate Epidemiologists Are Now Trying to Figure That Out

By Laura Baisas

On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, thousands marched in Philadelphia for action to prevent climate catastrophe and present their demands directly to current and future policy makers. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

A Collision of Economics and History: In Pennsylvania, the Debate Over Climate is a Bitter One

By David Shribman

Debbie Robinson sits for a portrait in her bedroom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 2022. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Deep Indigo Collective for Inside Climate News

A Vast Refinery Site in Philadelphia Is Being Redeveloped and Called ‘The Bellwether District.’ But for Black Residents Nearby, Justice Awaits

By Victoria St. Martin

Warming Trends: Chilling in a Heat Wave, Healthy Food Should Eat Healthy Too, Breeding Delays for Wild Dogs, and Three Days of Climate Change in Song

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A man rides an electric bicycle near the pier in Huntington Beach, California on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Credit: Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: E-bike Sales and Sharing are Booming. But Can They Help Take Cars off the Road?

By James Pothen

An aerial view of Jamaica Bay. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A ‘Living Shoreline’ Takes Root in New York’s Jamaica Bay

By Hannah Loss

In this picture taken on May 12, 2022, people drink water being distributed by volunteers along a street during a heatwave in Jacobabad, in the southern Sindh province. Credit: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images

In Jacobabad, One of the Hottest Cities on the Planet, a Heat Wave Is Pushing the Limits of Human Livability

By Zoha Tunio

Smoke pours out of towers of the Phillips 66 Bayway oil refinery along the New Jersey Turnpike in Linden, New Jersey, Dec. 11, 2019. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

In An Unusual Step, a Top Medical Journal Weighs in on Climate Change

By Victoria St. Martin

JC Hudgins pulls in his test crab pots in the Chesapeake Bay in Mathews, Virginia, on Friday, June 10, 2022. Credit: Kristen Zeis/Deep Indigo Collective for Inside Climate News

Why the Chesapeake Bay’s Beloved Blue Crabs Are at an All-Time Low

By Aman Azhar

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