Sunset Park has carried a heavy pollution burden for its predominantly working-class Asian and Latino residents. Now the neighborhood is emerging as a model for environmental justice
Trump’s dismantling of bedrock environmental protections is just one facet of the administration’s wide-ranging attacks on the planet
A heat vulnerability index created by Northwestern University could direct environmental resources to Chicago’s most impacted neighborhoods, but it’s locked behind bureaucracy
The political right argues that fetuses have constitutional rights, while advocating for policies that spew carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, killing the Earth and harming humans
The “liquid heart” of Florida is the Everglades, says filmmaker Sasha Wortzel, and colonial violence is killing it
Extreme weather can be especially catastrophic for people with schizophrenia, a highly stigmatized group who also experience unique risks associated with rising temperatures
The Tony Award-winning creator of “The Vagina Monologues” channels decades of activism into “Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth,” blending youth voices, grassroots organizing, and climate justice stories
The Southwest is quickly becoming the center of the nationwide push to increase the nuclear fuel supply chain, once again relegating Indigenous communities to sacrifice zones
The Endangerment Finding, the legal grounding for managing climate change-causing emissions, is the latest environmental regulation on the chopping block
Before government intervention, Native stewardship maintained salmon stocks since time immemorial, providing physical and spiritual nourishment
The court’s historic July ruling found that wealthy nations like the U.S. have a legal responsibility to address the climate crisis. But its silence on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians reveals how international law fails the most vulnerable
The real estate boom along the Chesapeake Bay’s shoreline is just the latest form of extraction to hit the region
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