Environmental Justice

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.

The Global South and communities of color in Global North countries disproportionately face harms from climate change, writes Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate in her new book, A Bigger Picture.

The slow-moving coup threatens not just democracy but meaningful action on climate, extinction and environmental justice.

Whether you’re into literary fiction, thrillers, sci-fi or comics, these new novels help us explore the complex geographies of climate change, pollution and the extinction crisis.