At least 4,600 documented orphaned oil and gas wells are spread across Louisiana, with major human health and climate ramifications for the 230,000 people, including 15,000 children under five years old, who
The confluence of heat and air pollution disproportionately increases the risk of death, a new study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine finds. Extreme heat and heatwaves
Last summer, a mass of high-pressure air known as a heat dome, settled over the Pacific Northwest, hovering for days. The result was record-shattering heat, with temperatures reaching 115 degrees in Portland.
The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Melissa Lin Perrella sees a direct line from her childhood in a small town in Central California in the 1980s to her work on the front lines
Extreme heat put more than 70 million people living in the southwestern part of the U.S. under heat warnings and advisories over the weekend, and the high temperatures, along with increased humidity,
AirWatch, a new online hub, will allow communities of color in St. Louis, Missouri to access data, updated hourly, on air quality such as specific pollutants to help protect their health and
Pre-(official)summer heatwaves are already breaking records and hitting dangerous levels with more, inequitably-harmful, heat to come. Three women were found dead in their senior living facility in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood earlier
A new analysis of granular, block-by-block data reveals Black, Latino, Asian and low-income neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay area are exposed to 55% more nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution than mostly white
A domestic terrorist shot and killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York, Saturday. The white gunman intentionally traveled to a predominantly Black neighborhood and sought to kill as many Black people as
Tinder-dry vegetation, and wind, are fueling extraordinary wildfires across the Southwest, auguring danger in a region suffering its worst drought in 1,200 years. Climate change, mainly caused by the extraction and combustion
More than 40% of people in the U.S. live in cities and states with poor air quality, the American Lung Association's 22nd annual State of the Air report finds. Of the more
The California Air Resources Board updated limits on air pollution from harbor craft last week. The measure requires short-run ferries to achieve zero emissions by 2025 and establishes engine emissions requirements on
The EPA announced proposed limits on tailpipe emissions from semis, buses, and other heavy duty vehicles on Monday, which it says will prevent as many as 2,100 premature deaths and 18,000 cases
As a child, Leah Thomas dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. When she arrived at Chapman University in 2013, her fascination with the animal world expanded to studying ecology and declaring a major
Audrey Trufant Salvant has deep roots in Ironton, a close-knit, majority-Black community 25 miles downriver from New Orleans. Her great-great-great grandmother, who had been enslaved, is buried here, and her descendents kept
Increasing flood risk driven by human-caused climate change will disproportionately harm Black communities in the South, new research published in Nature Climate Change finds. According to the study, Appalachia and the Northeast
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This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. When Meleny Thomas first moved to South Baltimore, she thought the towering smokestack emblazoned with
On November 8, 2018, Sally awoke to the smell of smoke and a phone call from her daughter, imploring her to flee her home. It was 8:30 a.m., but the sky was
Amazon's quickly-growing legion of warehouses are disproportionately located in communities of color and low-income communities, a Consumer Reports investigation revealed. The siting decisions burden those communities with truck traffic, noise, and pollution
Black, Latino, and Native households use less energy but pay more for it and suffer from disproportionate pollution caused by its production, research published in Energy Research & Social Science reveals. The
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