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Is Climate Change Confusing the Cicadas?

Coming soon to a backyard near you: This cicada and billions of his closest friends.

You might hear their chorus on a different schedule as the planet heats up.

What’s Killing All the Wildlife?

Photo of Steller sea lions jumping from a rock ledge into the Northern Pacific Ocean

Fighting the biodiversity crisis isn’t just about saving the bees or the whales.

Ways to Help Fight Anti-Black Police Violence

Anti-violence demonstrators gather near the White House on June 3, 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police.

“Historically White environmental organizations that once looked away from environmental racism are finally joining a larger, urgent struggle for justice.”

What Schoolhouse Rock Didn’t Tell You About Lawmaking

Coal ash ponds sit next to the decomissioned Wood River Power Station in East Alton, Ill. in 2018.

Why a bill becoming a law is just the beginning, as explained through the case of Illinois’ landmark coal ash law.

HUD Knowingly Poisoned Our Children. This Can Never Happen Again.

Photo of children playing in a yard at the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Ind., on August 24, 2016.

No one ever told me I was moving onto the polluted grounds of an old lead refinery.

Remembering Dan Greenberg, Board Chair 1991-1993

Photo of the late Daniel Greenberg, Earthjustice honorary life trustee

The strong and flourishing organization that Earthjustice is today will always owe Dan a huge debt of gratitude.

Ningún ‘Refugio’ Para Menores

Esto es lo que la Administración Biden debe saber sobre el centro de detención de menores que planean reabrir en la Florida.

This Is No ‘Shelter’ for Children

Photo of hundreds of bunk beds in the dormitory at Homestead Detention Center, Biscayne, Florida.

Here's what the Biden team must know about the detention center they plan to reopen in Florida.

Justice During COVID and Climate Change

Un trabajador distribuye jugo de naranja en un estante de alimentos en Brooklyn el 14 de abril de 2020. La crisis del coronavirus está aumentando la inseguridad alimentaria.

As the impacts worsen from the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, longstanding injustices continue to put corporate profits over the benefit of all people. There is a more just path forward.