Journey Toward Climate Justice

Sustainability 2023-10-07T15:19:02Z

Konda Mason with farm manager Myles Gaines

On a former cotton plantation in Louisiana, a Black farmers' cooperative is reclaiming the land and money their ancestors lost

In the 20th century, Black farmers in the US lost 90% of their land. New initiatives like Jubilee Justice hope to encourage economic equity and community.

Sustainability 2023-09-22T18:37:24Z

Youth plaintiffs gather before the start of the Navahine F. v. the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation hearing at the First Circuit Environmental Court in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, on January 26, 2023. Pictured left to right: Kaʻōnohi P.-G., 16, KawahineʻIlikea N., 13, Taliya N., 15, Navahine F., 15, Mesina D.-R., 15, Kalā W., 19, Rylee K., 15, and Kawena F., 10.

How 14 youth advocates in Hawaii are fighting climate change by taking the state to court

A group of youth advocates have sued the state's Department of Transportation over greenhouse-gas emissions.

Sustainability 2023-09-13T15:47:24Z

Aliana Alexis of Haiti stands on the concrete slab of what is left of her home after destruction from Hurricane Dorian in Great Abaco Island, Bahamas on Sept. 5, 2019.

Recognizing the rights of climate refugees is the first step to relocating the millions of vulnerable island-nation residents who could be displaced in the next 3 decades

While Caribbean islands have some of the lowest greenhouse-gas emissions, they're the most vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis.

Sustainability 2023-08-28T17:38:48Z

Children gather on curb on a warm summer night in Minneapolis, August 9, 1996.

Racist housing practices left Minneapolis with an extreme heat problem. Now, the city is rushing to reverse the lasting effects of environmental racism.

Formerly redlined neighborhoods in Minneapolis are nearly 11 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than non-redlined areas.

Sustainability 2023-08-03T15:25:23Z

Myrtle Felton, Sharon Lavigne, Gail LeBoeuf and Rita Cooper, members of RISE St. James, stand in protest on property owned by Formosa, March 11, 2020.

'We are being poisoned': Black residents living in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' say the state is guilty of 'genocide' and environmental racism

In parts of Cancer Alley, a region rife with petrochemical plants, the risk of cancer is 47 times the EPA's acceptable standard.