Environment & Health

‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth

A smelting company has poisoned rivers, killed off boreal forest and belched out more sulfur dioxide than active volcanoes. Now it wants to produce more metal for the “green economy.”

By Marianne Lavelle

In San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point Neighborhood, Advocates Have Taken Air Monitoring Into Their Own Hands

By Elena Shao

New York’s Right to ‘a Healthful Environment’ Could Be Bad News for Fossil Fuel Interests

By Kristoffer Tigue

Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Warming Trends: Climate Divide in the Classroom, an All-Electric City and Rising Global Temperatures’ Effects on Mental Health

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Bridge to Composting and Clean Air in South Baltimore

By Agya K. Aning

New Report Expects Global Emissions of Carbon Dioxide to Rebound to Pre-Pandemic High This Year

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Warming Trends: The BBC Introduces ‘Life at 50 Degrees,’ Helping African Farmers Resist Drought and Driftwood Provides Clues to Climate’s Past

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Diesel Emissions in Major US Cities Disproportionately Harm Communities of Color, New Studies Confirm

By Kristoffer Tigue

Long Concerned About Air Pollution, Baltimore Experienced Elevated Levels on 43 Days in 2020

By Agya K. Aning

Video: Carolina Tribe Fighting Big Poultry Joined Activists Pushing Administration to Act on Climate and Justice

Story and Video by Aman Azhar

Warming Trends: A Delay in Autumn Leaves, More Bad News for Corals and the Vicious Cycle of War and Eco-Destruction

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: Cruise Ship Impacts, a Vehicle Inside the Hurricane’s Eye and Anticipating Climate Tipping Points

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Civil Rights Groups in North Carolina Say ‘Biogas’ From Hog Waste Will Harm Communities of Color

By Aman Azhar

Dangerous Air: As California Burns, America Breathes Toxic Smoke

By Alison Saldanha, Farida Jhabvala Romero, Caleigh Wells and Aaron Glantz

Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers

By Liza Gross

Biden Administration Unveils Plan to Protect Workers and Communities from Extreme Heat

By Liza Gross

Does Nature Have Rights? A Burgeoning Legal Movement Says Rivers, Forests and Wildlife Have Standing, Too

By Katie Surma

Indigenous Tribes Facing Displacement in Alaska and Louisiana Say the U.S. Is Ignoring Climate Threats

By Dalia Faheid