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Can zero-waste stores be affordable for everyone?

Can zero-waste stores be affordable for everyone?

By Angely Mercado

A line of yellow school buses.

Electric Vehicles

A Maryland school district switched to electric buses to save kids’ lungs. Can others follow?

Flooding in Oklahoma

Oklahoma floods are poisoning tribal lands

By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media News

The White House covered in snow

The Trump administration’s environmental legacy can be undone. Here’s how.

By Purbita Saha

Marryam Moma collage

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ a Black community battles an industry that threatens its health—and history

By Megan I. Gannon

A Black pregnant person standing in silhouette

Black mothers face high death rates. Now they have to contend with climate change, too.

By Candice Wang

empty food shelves

COVID-19 is exposing the food deserts around Native American reservations

Black kids with binoculars

Black birders have never been safe or celebrated

By Jacqueline L. Scott/The Conversation

Inuit researchers are leading a scientific movement to understand life on the ice

By Matthew Halliday/Undark

Peoples at a riverside beach

This summer’s severe temperatures could make the pandemic even more complicated

By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media

Looking down on an open pit mine in the Brazilian Amazon

Latin American environmentalists face unprecedented violence in defending their land

By Martha Pskowski/Undark

These Latin American teens refuse to be overlooked at global climate strikes

These Latin American teens refuse to be overlooked at global climate strikes

By Maria Paula Rubiano/Scienceline

Giving legal rights to nature could reduce public health threats like toxic algae

Giving legal rights to nature could reduce public health threats like toxic algae

By Dana Zartner/The Conversation

New York is passing its own Green New Deal

New York is passing its own Green New Deal

Flint residents are using fruits and vegetables to combat lead poisoning

Flint residents are using fruits and vegetables to combat lead poisoning

By Marlene Cimons

White Americans’ diets are particularly bad for the planet

White Americans’ diets are particularly bad for the planet

By Alex Schwartz

Green New Deal explainer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Everything you need to know about the Green New Deal

Green New Deal explainer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What the heck is the Green New Deal?

Climate change is cooking salmon in the Pacific Northwest

Climate change is cooking salmon in the Pacific Northwest

Michigan is practically giving away clean water—but not to Flint

Michigan is practically giving away clean water—but not to Flint

By Eleanor Cummins

Satellite image of the Sundarban mangrove forest in Bangladesh.

The people of Cape Town are running out of water—and they’re not alone

We can’t truly protect the environment unless we tackle social justice issues, too

We can’t truly protect the environment unless we tackle social justice issues, too

Green jobs in Chicago help the environment while transforming communities

Green jobs in Chicago help the environment while transforming communities

Neighborhoods subjected to deadly air quality can finally fight back

Neighborhoods subjected to deadly air quality can finally fight back

By Marlene Cimons