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Book Review: ‘Charleston,’ by Susan Crawford
In “Charleston,” a case study of climate change and government negligence in the South Carolina city, Susan Crawford makes clear the disproportionate costs borne by communities of color in the coastal United States.
Wildfire destroys a piece of Black history in rural California
The Lincoln Heights community endured for decades, despite segregation, economic hardship and a pandemic. Then came the Mill fire.
E.P.A. will make racial equality a bigger factor in environmental rules
The agency is creating an office of environmental justice to address the disproportionate harm that climate change has caused in low-income areas and communities of color.
Dauté Martin: Katrina babies are hurting, but we are healing, too
What happened to the children who lived through Hurricane Katrina?
Baratunde Thurston wants you to be part of nature. Right now
The author of “How to Be Black” and host of the “How to Citizen with Baratunde” podcast wants you to experience the outdoors with a new PBS television series.
Finding traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland's Eastern Shore
A historian marks the 200th birthday of a fearless conductor of the Underground Railroad with a visit to her birthplace, only to learn how climate change is washing away memories of “the ultimate outdoors woman.”
How redlining contributed to air pollution across America
A new study shows how redlining, a Depression-era housing policy, contributed to inequalities that persist decades later in U.S. cities.
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