In September 2022, Typhoon Merbok hit Alaska. Alaskan Native communities lost homes, critical food storage, and faced many catastrophic consequences. Philanthropy often responds to these types of ...

The field of environmental justice has never had a single reference text of its own — until now. Researchers, advocates, and scientists have had to piece together information on cancer clusters, ...

Dorceta Taylor spent decades pushing back on the idea that environmentalism ‘wasn't a Black thing.’ Now she's rewritten its ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For many Americans, proper sanitation and clean water seem like issues for developing ...

This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump’s first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S., and is made possible through a partnership ...

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From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with David Cash, the former EPA administrator for Region 1-New England. Former ...

Since she began studying mechanical engineering as an undergraduate at Stanford University, Ufuoma Ovienmhada had little desire to build “tech for tech’s sake.” The university’s sustainability lab ...

The Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University, with support from Rice’s Building Research on Inequality and Diversity to Grow Equity program, recently hosted its second-annual free summer ...

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