Environmental Justice

As pollution, sewage, and unchecked development shrink Kashmir's lakes, families who rely on them for their livelihoods have few alternatives — even when the water is toxic.

While the number of cruise passengers visiting Old San Juan rose 11% from 2015 to 2025, residents warn that the influx is straining public infrastructure and community life.

“Worst of all is that the floods have forced people to lose their traditions and ancestral lands. I think nature is reclaiming its lost glory.”

Indigenous communities say burial sites are being disturbed by the EACOP project in Uganda and Tanzania, and compensation is not adequate to move graves.

“That’s what I hope I can do, even though I’m just an ordinary person. If one day my grandchildren ask me what I did for nature, at least I have an answer: I fought for your future.”

My own family members have diverse relationships with nature. Surprisingly, when I asked them about it, many said they felt no connection to the environment — a response that contrasted with my memories of harvesting fresh coconuts and picking wild blackberries alongside them. Why do generations of Asian Americans struggle to recognize these experiences?

As temperatures rise, it is the poor who suffer most. The coping strategies of those living in informal settlements may hold lessons for cities of the future.

She attended a secret rally in the mountains at midnight with a local environmental organizer, recently returned from exile and surrounded by volunteer bodyguards to protect him against assassination. She heard stories about the village leaders who disappeared after speaking out against Formosa and she met a man who spent six years in jail for climbing a chemical plant tower in protest. “That inspired me,” Wilson told Lin. “Ten years later I did it in Texas.”

"Through these real-life kids, we could get to the heart of showing how much power anyone who decides to work towards climate action has. And they showed — though their backgrounds and experiences of climate change even at young ages [are different] — what is fundamentally a global story."

What happens when Cambodian activists stage a peaceful protest against the government’s privatization moves? They risk landing in jail. And journalists who expose the regime? Many have been chased out or denied entry into the country.