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Climate Migrants Lack a Clear Path to Asylum in the US

People displaced by climate change must show they face violence or persecution in their home countries to enter the U.S. legally. Advocates say it’s time to recognize climate as cause enough.

By Aydali Campa

Immigrants from Colombia, who are family members seeking asylum, wait beneath an improvised tent for U.S. Border Patrol agents to arrive to be processed after they crossed the border from Mexico on May 19, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Paint peels from the side of a home along 37th Avenue on Sunday, April 9, 2017, in Oakland, California. Credit: Aric Crabb/Bay Area News via Getty Images

Lead Poisonings of Children in Baltimore Are Down, but Lead Contamination Still Poses a Major Threat, a New Report Says

By Agya K. Aning

Commuters make their way along a street amid smoggy conditions early in the morning in Lahore, Pakistan on Dec. 17, 2021. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

Study Identifies Outdoor Air Pollution as the ‘Largest Existential Threat to Human and Planetary Health’

By Victoria St. Martin

Two women shower amid destruction after Typhoon Haiyan on Nov. 14, 2013 in Leyte, Philippines. Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A pregnant woman receives an exam from her doctor. Biomonitoring studies have measured at least 43 chemicals from diverse classes of chemical compounds in 99-100% of pregnant women in the United States. Credit: Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Just Harming the Planet. They’re Making Us Sick

By Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

The Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 9, 2022. Credit: Katie Surma

In ‘Silent Spring,’ Rachel Carson Described a Fictional, Bucolic Hamlet, Much Like Her Hometown. Now, There’s a Plastics Plant Under Construction 30 Miles Away

By Kiley Bense

In an aerial view, meltwater flows away from the retreating Reindeer Glacier on Sept. 8, 2021 near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Earth Has a 50-50 Chance of Hitting a Grim Global Warming Milestone in the Next Five Years

By Bob Berwyn

Residential buildings stand on the city skyline on April 10, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. Credit: David Ramos/Getty Images

To Equitably Confront Climate Change, Cities Need to Include Public Health Agencies in Planning Adaptations

By Aydali Campa

People take picture beneath cherry blossoms near the national assembly on April 09, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul's famous Yeouiseoro street is open for people to enjoy the cherry blossom season after two years of closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Credit: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Nature and Health Studies Focused on the Privileged, $1B for Climate School and Old Tires Detour Into Concrete

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A man throws water on his face to cool off as the temperature exceeds 46 degrees in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 27, 2022. Temperatures above the seasonal norm have adversely affected daily life in Pakistan. Credit: Muhammed Semih Ugurlu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

An Unprecedented Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Is Putting the Lives of More Than a Billion People at Risk

By Zoha Tunio

A Black Woman Fought for Her Community, and Her Life, Amidst Polluting Landfills and Vast ‘Borrow Pits’ Mined for Sand and Clay

By Agya K. Aning

Robert Taylor, executive director of the Concerned Citizens of St. John (right) speaks with EPA Administrator Michael Regan as he meets with members of the Concerned Citizens of St. John during his “Journey to Justice” tour. Photo courtesy of the EPA

EPA Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

By Victoria St. Martin

California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference

By Liza Gross

People with Valley Fever undergo treatment at San Joaquin Valley Pulmonary. Credit: Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Climate Change is Spreading a Debilitating Fungal Disease Throughout the West

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

A family wears face masks as they walk through the smoke filled streets after the Thomas wildfire swept through Ventura, California on Dec. 6, 2017. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

The ‘State of the Air’ in America Is Unhealthy and Getting Worse, Especially for People of Color

By Kristoffer Tigue

Crew works on seepage of more than 900,000 gallons of oil and brine water oil from an abandoned well in Chevron Corps Cymric Oil Field that has transformed a dry creek bed into a black lagoon July 24, 2019 near McKittrick, California. Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

What Does Climate Justice in California Look Like?

By Liza Gross

Traffic in the rain on Jan. 5, 2022 in New Delhi, India. Credit: Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

In South Asia, Vehicle Exhaust, Agricultural Burning and In-Home Cooking Produce Some of the Most Toxic Air in the World

By Zoha Tunio

Chickens

A Biomass Power Plant in Rural North Carolina Reignites Concerns Over Clean Energy and Environmental Justice

By Aman Azhar

The coastal Inuit community of Arctic Bay on Lancaster Sound in Canada's high Arctic. Baffin Island. Credit: Kike Calvo/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Warming Trends: The Climate Atlas of Canada Maps ‘the Harshities of Life,’ Plus Christians Embracing Climate Change and a New Podcast Called ‘Hot Farm’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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