Why Rising Temperatures Could Make Life Harder for Lupus Patients
As temperature rise and humidity worsens, lupus patients may experience more aggrevated symptoms.
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When Selling Your Home, It Pays to Be a Climate Change Denier
New research suggests coastal homeowners worried about rising seas are selling their houses at bargain rates.
Freedom to Breathe: Can We Have A Green New Deal?
States are adopting better policies thanks in part to the national conversation around the Green New Deal, a plan that -- while hasn’t made progress in congress yet -- addresses both climate catastrophe and economic inequality
Freedom to Breathe: Food, Farming and Climate Change
Climate change impacts like drought and extreme heat means greater health risks for farmers and larger economic costs across the country.
Freedom to Breathe: Fossil Fuels and Your Health
In Karnes County, Texas, residents live in a big oil and gas county and find themselves choosing between their jobs and their health.
Op-Ed: The Amazon, climate change, and the art of filmmaking
Sociologist and filmmaker Sabrina McCormick writes about her experiences filming SEQUESTRADA, a feature film set in the Brazilian Amazon.
Freedom to Breathe: Climate Gentrification Is Changing the Country
Climate change, immigration and affordable housing intersect in Miami's historically black and brown communities.
Freedom to Breathe: Social Justice Is Climate Justice
For residents of the Texan city of Port Arthur, living next to the country's largest oil refinery has imposed severe health impacts onto the majority Black/Latino community. This is only one example of environmental racism that low-income communities of color…
Freedom to Breathe: Trailer
Climate change can feel like an abstract, far-away issue explained through melting ice or temperature graphs. But it’s already affecting all Americans. So how does our warming planet impact us in our day-to-day lives? In this five-part digital series, we…
Freedom to Breathe: About the Series
“All communities are not impacted the same by climate change. And if we are to develop real plans and strategies and protocols to deal with climate change, then the justice part has to be front and center.” – Dr. Robert…
Op-ed: The Beauty of Greenland’s Ice Sheet and Why It’s Disappearing
A glaciologist at Lamont-Doherty, Marco Tedesco shares vivid images of melting ice sheets in Greenland and the consequences of climate change.
Episode 5: “Nature” – Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial
Explore a groundbreaking environmental exhibit from New York City's Cooper Hewitt Museum.