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A century after the events of "Killers of the Flower Moon," abandoned oil wells litter the Osage Nation.
The aim is to draw key minerals, including lithium and magnesium, from ocean water, desalination plant residue, and industrial waste brine.
Many states with abortion bans are experiencing broiling summers — and the heat could damage supplies such as emergency contraception and condoms.
The Justice Department is suing a major petrochemical company, arguing that its chemical plant in Reserve, Louisiana, poses an unacceptable risk to the health and welfare of the area’s majority-Black population.
Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price.
"Sustainability is an empty word if you don't respect and implement Indigenous rights here in our homelands."
The climate law is lowering the cost of solar and wind, but Paris Agreement goals are still out of reach.
Climate change is driving mosquitoes to new heights, bringing the bugs, and the diseases they carry, to newly vulnerable populations.
After dodging the issue for more than 30 years, wealthy nations face calls to address the “loss and damage” created by climate change at COP27.
