Dorian’s devastation highlights a risk that health and justice experts have long warned of: Climate change will hit the most vulnerable populations hardest.
Growing inequality and climate change will not only derail progress towards global sustainability goals but threaten human existence, leading scientists said at the United Nations on Wednesday.
When 119 Bahamian evacuees were thrown off a ferry to Florida, was it an admin error or linked to President Trump’s comments about hurricane survivors?
Landlords that have lead contamination in their houses or apartments could find themselves the target of fines and criminal charges as Onondaga County is stepping up enforcement.
It is becoming ever clearer how profoundly the climate crisis is changing everything, and how imperative it is that we act now if we hope to avert an existential disaster.
African descendants making up the Gullah people, who are also known as the Saltwater Geechee, face two types of erosion — one of culture and the other of land.
Residents of Central America’s Dry Corridor are at a crossroads: stay in the drought-stricken region, where food insecurity and violence are rampant, or migrate.
A new Canadian study finds that people living in neighborhoods with unhealthy environments (such as fewer trees and more pollution), reduced access to cancer screening and lower total income levels are at greater risk of premature death.
'Basic' environment ministers stress the responsibility of rich countries, in draft declaration that ignores António Guterres' call for more ambitious national plans.
Kristina Marusic is the recipient of a Michelle Madoff Award of Environmental Excellence for her reporting on environmental health and justice in Western Pennsylvania
It's often our duty to report bleak news on climate and the environment. But let's not skimp on the good news—like the continued momentum of clean energy
Nearly 20 percent of people in Philadelphia are food insecure. We visited the researchers, restaurateurs, and entrepreneurs changing this by rethinking food waste.
