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![A woman in traditional Sámi dress -- a red, white, and blue shawl tied at the neck with an elaborate silver clasp and matching head covering -- sits at a conference table with a microphone. She looks off to the side as if listening to someone.]()
![A woman in traditional Sámi dress -- a red, white, and blue shawl tied at the neck with an elaborate silver clasp and matching head covering -- sits at a conference table with a microphone. She looks off to the side as if listening to someone.]()
UN report backs up Sámi claims that mining in Finland violates their rights to land and culture
"Sustainability is an empty word if you don't respect and implement Indigenous rights here in our homelands."
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Is climate anxiety a pressing problem, or a luxury?
Concerns about our future are valid — but they aren't always shared by those who are fighting to survive in the present.
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Climate change is destroying American homes. Who should have to move?
It’s unfair to force people out of their homes. We have to do it anyway.
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A new salvo in the fight to protect the ‘holy grail’ of environmental justice
Residents and legal advocates ask the EPA to keep enforcing Title VI civil rights protections.
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Heat exposure, cloudy water, and bad air: The data gap of toxic prisons
There’s been a proliferation of data-driven mapping tools that illuminate disparities in environmental harm, but they do little to compel suitable solutions — especially for incarcerated people.
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![An aerial photograph of a path windy through forested land. Some trees have been cut down]()
![An aerial photograph of a path windy through forested land. Some trees have been cut down]()
How schools, hospitals, and prisons in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations
“There's definitely a colonial imperative in the existence of those lands."
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Can the US census keep up with climate-driven displacement?
Four years after a string of disasters plagued one Louisiana town, its residents are still on the move.
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![A person stands on a city street wearing a helmet and talking to another person, also helmeted, on a bike, with another bike with a red bag with the letters GH on it in the foreground]()
![A person stands on a city street wearing a helmet and talking to another person, also helmeted, on a bike, with another bike with a red bag with the letters GH on it in the foreground]()
NYC’s food delivery workers are sweltering in the heat — and demanding more protection
"We risked our health for the delivery companies during COVID, and now we are doing it again."
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![An evacuee from Hurricane Katrina sits on his cot while on the floor of the Reliant Astrodome September 7, 2005 in Houston, Texas.]()
![An evacuee from Hurricane Katrina sits on his cot while on the floor of the Reliant Astrodome September 7, 2005 in Houston, Texas.]()
They settled in Houston after Katrina — and then faced a political storm
The backlash against an effort to resettle 200,000 evacuees holds lessons for future disasters.
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![A house sits along the long stretch of he Mississippi River and many chemical plants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.]()
![A house sits along the long stretch of he Mississippi River and many chemical plants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.]()
Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’
The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit.
