America’s dirty divide: How environmental racism leaves the vulnerable behind
The health effects caused by decades of systemic racism are staggering. The Guardian is launching a year-long series to investigate.
These cities are gaining praise for efforts to tackle climate change and inequality
Although the global pandemic of 2020 made for some somber headlines, one nonprofit believes cities around the world still managed to make achievements worth celebrating.
Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?
Multi-stakeholder partnerships that include displaced people in the process show promise for helping overwhelmed communities deal with an influx of climate migrants from rural areas.
Protection for the rich, retreat for the poor
How the United States’ implementation of climate change adaptation programs is exacerbating inequality and breeding a new form of climate gentrification.
Mapping the disparities of Chicago’s unequal pandemic
Draw a map of Chicago and shade the areas with more poverty, pollution and coronavirus. It will start to look like being Black is a...
As Miami keeps building, rising seas deepen its social divide
As developers eye higher ground, communities of color will likely bear the heaviest burden from the changes wrought by climate change.
Revealed: Oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities
Big corporations accused of driving environmental and health inequalities in black and brown communities through toxic and climate-changing pollution are also funding powerful police groups...
The Original Long Islanders Fight to Save Their Land From a Rising Sea
A maritime people who once spanned a large swath of the eastern Long Island shore, the Shinnecock Indians have been hemmed into a 1.5-square-mile patch...