Inequality

A new index that rates 70,000 U.S. communities on their climate vulnerability finds that parts of the Gulf Coast subject to flooding and economic and racial inequities are most under threat

Satellites that can better predict extreme weather and location-based text messaging systems can warn at-risk communities of storms and other climate-related threats to help save lives, the U.N. says

Interest is building in using solar geoengineering to combat climate warming, but experts warn it could have broad—and inequitable—impacts

More than three million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in the U.S. in the past year because of hurricanes, floods and other disasters, according to the Census Bureau

Racism and overstressed teachers help explain high expulsion rates for Black preschool boys

A universal basic income wouldn’t lead to adults leaving their jobs and could lift millions of children into a brighter future

Deaths from heart disease, cancer and COVID are all higher in rural areas than urban ones in the U.S., and the gap is only widening

Clinics and the most effective types of therapy are harder to find in communities where people of color live

I helped develop a plan to support youth living with HIV and would like to see more educational institutions prioritize our needs

New funding programs announced at COP27 are helping poor countries transition away from fossil fuels, but the money isn’t going to places without energy

Nearly three years into the pandemic, COVID’s mortality burden is growing in certain groups of people

There are growing calls for a mechanism to pay developing countries for losses and damages they’ve suffered from climate change—a problem they did little to create