Environmental Justice

European “explorers” left their mark not only on the environment, but also in knowledge systems.

A project in Los Angeles could help communities that lack tree canopy and provide a much-needed tool to protect residents from dangerous temperatures.

Harmful fisheries subsidies push species to extinction, fuel food insecurity, and worsen the climate crisis.

Credit-rating agencies say they can discipline companies that behave badly, and they have in some cases, but research reveals negligible progress.

Miami residents already live with the ramifications of climate change. That’s why organizers there have teamed up with other regions to share ideas.

As climate change pushes people and families across international borders, they’ll find few protections. That can be fixed.

We’re just getting warmed up.

A new report puts into focus for the first time the scope of the state’s drinking-water problems and what it will take to fix them. 

The pressures of climate change and human land use could lead to the disappearance of unique biodiversity and vital ecological services.

Residents of northeastern Oklahoma still suffer from the toxic fallout of shuttered mines.