Yessenia Funes

One year after massive flooding hit western North Carolina, immigrant families are rebuilding with little more than grit, neighbors, and community organizing – under an increasingly hostile government.

Thousands of volunteer farmhands pilgrimage to Palestine each year—but two years of genocide have made the journey more challenging.

Increasingly, doctors are prescribing time in the natural world as a treatment that can help patients with a wide range of diagnoses.

Advocates are working to ensure that world leaders don’t ignore people displaced by climate change.

Activistas trabajan para que los líderes mundiales no ignoren a las personas desplazadas por el cambio climático

This chemist is cleaning up fossil fuels, but her real passion is communicating science to kids

In Chicago’s South Side, Latino community members are transforming a park, and a charter school is teaching kids how to grow food.

Yessenia Funes is a journalist who has covered the climate crisis and environmental racism for a decade. She's editor-at-large for Atmos, an independent magazine. She also publishes a creative climate... More by Yessenia Funes

Oʻahu is an island of lava and water. Five years ago, the U.S. military spilled over 180,000 gallons of toxic petroleum into the groundwater.

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