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Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, lead has been detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death

By Lisa Sorg

With machete in hand, Isiah Cruz clears a patch of invasive common reed along the Passaic River’s edge. Credit: Anna Mattson/Inside Climate News

The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey’s Most Contaminated River

By Anna Mattson

Woods Hole researchers, Adam Subhas (left) and Chris Murray, conducted a series of lab experiments earlier this year to test the impact of an alkaline substance, known as sodium hydroxide, on copepods in the Gulf of Maine. Credit: Daniel Hentz/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Can We Alter the Ocean to Counter Climate Change Faster? This Experiment Aims to Find Out

By Teresa Tomassoni

Floodwater covers roads following heavy rain on April 4 in Hopkinsville, Ky. Credit: Jason Davis/Getty Images

Atmospheric Rivers May be Diminishing on the West Coast and Surging in the East, Study Finds

By Chad Small

John Nordstrom stands before a rock dam he built on his property in Patagonia, Ariz., on July 9. Rock dams slows the speed of water, allowing it to better recharge the aquifer underground. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

As a Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Arizona, Residents Fear It’s Already Affecting Area Water

By Wyatt Myskow

Vice President JD Vance (left) and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speak to the press outside on recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene in Damascus, Va., in January 2025. Nonprofits in parts of Southwest Virginia devastated by the storm want a restoration of climate resiliency funding terminated by the Trump administration. Credit: Ben Curtis/AFP via Getty Images

Environmental Groups, EPA Spar In Court Over Trump’s Cancellation of Resiliency Funding

By Charles Paullin

Researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia. Credit: Bennett Whitnell/Hakai Institute

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming 

By Bob Berwyn

Two men fish in a small boat on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in Chester, Md., on May 30, 2024. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Experts Slam Chesapeake Bay Draft Plan Over Lack of Pollution Targets and Accountability

By Aman Azhar

Tourists snorkel next to a whale shark in a protected area at Bahía de La Paz on January 25, 2021, in La Paz, Mexico. Credit: Alfredo Martinez/Getty Images

Marine Tourism in Mexico Remains Damaging to Wildlife Despite Regulations, Research Finds

By Andrés Muedano

Water pipes lead to the Buenos Aires Community Aqueduct, a small system in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Credit: Sarah Mattalian

In Rural Puerto Rico, Water Systems Depend on Volunteers—and Threatened Federal Grants

By Sarah Mattalian

The covered coal ash pond at Alabama Power’s Plant Gadsden sits adjacent to the Coosa River in Gadsden, Ala. Credit: Courtesy of Coosa Riverkeeper

Capped Alabama Coal Ash Pond Still Polluting Groundwater 7 Years After Closure, Lawsuit Claims

By Dennis Pillion

As Climate-Related Wastewater Threats Grow, U.S. and Mexico Sign a Deal to End the Tijuana Sewage Crisis

By Kiley Price

The deep-sea mining vessel “Hidden Gem,” owned by AllSeas and commissioned by The Metals Co., is seen anchored at sea in Labuan, Malaysia. Credit: Jurnasyanto Sukarno/Greenpeace

Nations Denounce Deep Sea Mining Company’s Bid to Exploit Metals in the Pacific Under US Law

By Teresa Tomassoni

Treated sewage sludge dries in shallow sand beds. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Why Farmers May Be Able to Continue Fertilizing Fields With PFAS-Contaminated Sewage Sludge

By Tom Perkins

Workers with the Billion Oyster Project prepare to place oysters in the waters near Brooklyn’s Bush Terminal Park in New York City. Credit: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

A New Jersey Shore Town Has Turned to Oysters to Fight Sea Level Rise and Erosion

By Emilie Lounsberry

The Spotfin Chub (Erimonax monachus) is a species that has been threatened since 1977, and has been propagated at Conservation Fisheries Incorporated since 1994. Credit: Derek Wheaton

Hurricane Helene and Subsequent Cleanup Efforts Have Decimated North America’s Most Biodiverse Waters

By Kacie Faith Kress

Loretta Johnson stands by a water well on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. According to an EPA report, the well produces water tainted with arsenic. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Burn Scars Can Exacerbate Flooding, Posing Compounding Climate Hazards

By Kiley Price

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