Equity

What is the Indigenous landback movement — and can it help the climate?

Indigenous leaders on the growing 'landback' movement and their fight for climate justice.

Claire Elise Thompson Equity

What’s behind this Colombian band’s latest dance beat? The sounds of nature.

Simón Mejía, the founder of Bomba Estéreo, has a passion for environmental justice.

Angely Mercado Equity

Not every American has access to basic sanitation. This leader is out to change that.

A new book calls attention to the lack of basic sanitation in the rural South.

Catherine Coleman Flowers Equity

Voter suppression is a climate justice issue — and 2020 is the tipping point

It’s going to take everyone to address the systemic racism that enables voter suppression tactics.

Tamara Toles O’Laughlin & Peggy Shepard Equity

Will COVID-19 give Santa Ana officials an excuse to ignore the city’s lead crisis?

The California attorney general says the city needs to collaborate with overburdened communities to address its dangerous lead contamination.

Yvette Cabrera Equity

New York says goodbye to 6 dirty power plants and hello to working with communities

"They always have the advantage of having information that we don't have access to." Now that will change.

Emily Pontecorvo Equity

For some near the Cross Bronx Expressway, COVID-19 is an environmental justice issue, too

Even as air has grown cleaner in The Bronx, a highway through its heart belches pollution researchers say may be linked to risk of death from the coronavirus.

Ese Olumhense, THE CITY Equity

A new YouTube series is amplifying Latino voices in the environmental movement

The bilingual YouTube series Planeta G is the work of two Greenpeace communications specialists, Crystal Mojica and Valentina Stackl.

Angely Mercado Equity

Smoke and COVID-19 drove us inside — but the air in there wants to kill you

The perils of breathing in 2020.

Kate Yoder Equity

How California’s farmworkers are banding together to survive the pandemic

“Everyone is at risk, and we continue to live in fear — but we have to learn how to survive this.”