Environmental Justice

April’s best new eco-books look toward solutions to the extinction crisis, climate change, water shortages, environmental justice and more.

Researchers found that people don't have to be right next to oil and gas fields to experience respiratory distress from flaring.

Seven new environmental books offer practical advice, lessons from successful conservation projects and inspiration in troubled times.

The United Nations has an opportunity to address plastic pollution on an international level. Will it finally act?

The Environmental Protection Agency can help protect millions of people who live near industrial facilities — but only if it works now to strengthen an important federal chemical policy.

The state’s recently passed Climate and Equitable Jobs Act offers a model for other states to build coalitions to help communities and the planet.

Our experts weighed in on hot topics ranging from plastic pollution to the extinction crisis.

With a lack of regulations addressing toxic “forever chemicals,” students and professors at a Vermont college have taken their research skills into communities to spur action.

A new podcast puts BIPOC storytelling front and center in working for solutions to the plastic crisis.

Any work to achieve human-rights gains will be upended unless we address our climate and biodiversity crises.