"In my district, there are no therapists down the road, no crisis counselors in every school. When something breaks in a child in rural Alaska, it usually breaks quietly, and we always see how that ends up. We always find out too late," said state Rep. Nellie Unangiq Jimmie. "We are losing kids."

Jess Zhang spent a week in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta with nearly a dozen young people and their families. School social workers are carrying impossible caseloads, Tribal leaders are navigating a broken recovery system, and Yup'ik healers insist that the answer won't come from Western models alone.

Children as young as 6 wake from nightmares about that storm. Teenagers displaced hundreds of miles from their villages describe days that blur together, a numbness that won't lift. One graduate put it plainly: she still feels stuck in October. #indigenousyouth

Six months after the remnants of #TyphoonHalong swept homes off their foundations in western Alaska, the water has receded. But for the young people of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk, the storm hasn't ended. #climatecrisis

Aliyia Jones moved to Camden for relief after a train derailment displaced her. She found 14 scrapyard fires instead. 🧵

The Margin and @WHYY.org interviewed seven Waterfront South residents who experienced acute health symptoms or lingering psychological impacts after repeat fires at the EMR metal scrapyard recycling site. Christina Allen shared how her and her son’s health have been affected #publichealth

Six years. One neighborhood is still waiting. The Margin and WHYY News trace the full timeline of failures in Waterfront South. Read our latest investigation now: themargin.us/features/up-...

In January 2021, Christina Allen was pregnant when she smelled burning plastic inside her Camden, New Jersey home. EMR's scrap metal facility was on fire less than half a mile away 🧵

In our latest Inside: The Margin live forum, Bish discusses in detail her insights from the East Palestine train derailment and subsequent chemical fire in Ohio, and how they're informing her approach to BioLab and its victims.

BioLab's attorneys say recognizing that liability could affect up to 2 million people within 25 miles of the plant. Residents' attorneys say thousands are still living "under that cloud," facing health risks they can't afford to track alone.

The Georgia Supreme Court is weighing that question: If you were exposed to toxic chemicals but haven't gotten sick yet, should the company have to pay for your long-term medical monitoring?

As the plume spread, many residents felt immediate symptoms. But thousands more are still waiting, unsure what breathing that plume might cost them years from now. And, currently, no one is required to help them find out.

In September 2024, a fire at the BioLab plant in Conyers, GA, sent a toxic chemical plume across Rockdale County. Nearly 17,000 people evacuated. Another 90,000 were advised to shelter in place. Join us tonight to hear from those affected and learn what comes next. buff.ly/EtQVmyu

Cautious optimism is tempered by the challenges and deception of the past. Read the impacts of Rico’s impactful investigative journalism: buff.ly/kn8r5na

For over a century, Seattle City Light publicly insisted there were never salmon above its Skagit River dams. Tribal elders and oral histories said otherwise.

Walter Bannister lives a few miles from BioLab, or “ground zero,” as he calls it. “Every time you’d go outside, your skin would literally burn...It almost [felt] like somebody putting a butane torch to your face, you can actually feel the heat coming from it.”

“What is very likely is that we're going to lose a lot more of our wetlands at even higher rates than what we've seen in the last century. And that will likely lead to a situation that New Orleans becomes more like a fortress...with most of the surrounding area basically open water." 1/🧵

Louisiana could lose 75% of its remaining coastal wetlands by 2070. New Orleans could end up surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the century, say Tulane University researchers in Nature Sustainability. But communities aren't waiting to act. Join us tomorrow to learn more: buff.ly/ZMZOuWS

How'd this happen, and what is next for residents in coastal Louisiana? That's the question @halleparker.bsky.social's latest story digs into for Inside: The Margin.

When Gov. Landry canceled the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, a nearly $3B project scientists called the only long-term coastal fix, Black fishing communities and working-class parishes were left without a plan. #coastalresilience

Louisiana is losing land faster than almost anywhere on Earth. The communities that can least afford to leave are the ones most exposed. #climatejustice #environmentaljustice

"We get told all the time that these programs are too expensive, that there's no money to do this work. And that's simply not true,” said freelance journalist Amal Ahmed. www.instagram.com/reel/DYAGhd6...

This #EarthDay, we're working to bring on 25 new monthly sustainers. Your support keeps our journalists in the communities they're covering longer, makes our in-depth data visualizations possible, and ensures we can reach those on the front lines. 📸 Essence Ransome-Ambersley for The Margin

Washington state is closing the energy-poverty gap, and the rest of the country is watching. Join us this Thursday, April 23, to hear what they’re getting right: bit.ly/Margin-Energy