The people most harmed by ecological violence are underrepresented in stories about climate change. That’s why our new podcast with @counterstream.bsky.social and powered by Wildseeds Fund exists. Read our latest op-ed from podcast host @shilpichhotray.bsky.social.

We are so honored to be have received not one, not two, but THREE awards for best journalism from @inn.org!!! 🏆 🏆 🏆 #INNYs2025 Congratulations to our amazing team of reporters and editors who made these investigations possible.

The Micro Division winner of the Insight Award for Visual Journalism is “Pursuing Higher Ground: Six Months After the Hurricane That Changed Appalachia” from @themarginus.bsky.social.

The Micro Division winner of the Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism is “After Allen Field: Lessons from Houston’s Mandatory Buyout Program,” an article by Amal Ahmed, Ko Bragg, Danielle Villasana of @themarginus.bsky.social.

The Micro Division winner of the Best Investigative Journalism Award is @themarginus.bsky.social. This award recognizes the investigation, “A River of Deception.”

THREAD: Welcome The Margin's new Advisory Council! 🎉 The Advisory Council is a team of talented experts and leaders who will help drive The Margin's environmental and climate justice journalism forward! 🌎 Visit themargin.us/team to learn more!

🖥️ Join us on Sep. 8 for our live webinar, “Inside The Margin: Pursuing Higher Ground." 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/PursuingHigh...

🖥️ Join us on Sep. 8 for our live webinar, “Inside The Margin: Pursuing Higher Ground." 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/PursuingHigh...

LAST CHANCE to RSVP for tonight's conversation! In After Allen Field, journalist Amal Ahmed examines Harris County’s mandatory buyout program, the first of its kind in the nation, as well as reflections and updates on the Guadalupe River flooding in Central Texas. bit.ly/AfterAllenField

📢 TOMORROW, 8pm ET: Join @themarginus.bsky.social and Managing Editor Ko Bragg for a Zoom convo about After Allen Field, Amal Ahmed’s deep dive into Harris County’s buyout program after Hurricane Harvey. Feat. UCS's Zoe Middleton & Alice Liu (West Street Recovery). RSVP: bit.ly/AfterAllenField

Join us for an urgent LIVE conversation about the impacts of the recent Guadalupe River flooding and “After Allen Field”, Amal Ahmed’s deep dive into Harris County, Texas’s first mandatory buyout program. Register at bit.ly/AfterAllenField and submit your questions!

We’re incredibly excited and honored to be recognized by the Institute for Nonprofit News as a Finalist for 6 Nonprofit News Awards!!! Thank you to the entire team, especially the extraordinary journalists who investigate these issues and elevate the stories from the margins.

Join us for an urgent LIVE conversation about the impacts of the recent Guadalupe River flooding and “After Allen Field”, Amal Ahmed’s deep dive into Harris County, Texas’s first mandatory buyout program. Register at bit.ly/AfterAllenField and submit your questions!

We’re incredibly excited and honored to be recognized by the Institute for Nonprofit News as a Finalist for 6 Nonprofit News Awards!!! Thank you to the entire team, especially the extraordinary journalists who investigate these issues and elevate the stories from the margins.

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Last chance to register for our LIVE Inside: The Margin briefing with journalist Rico Moore and community members directly impacted by Washington’s privately run immigration facility the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, WA. Register here! bit.ly/InsideTheMargin

Join us for our first Inside: The Margin LIVE briefing on Tuesday at 6pm PST. This is an opportunity to hear from the investigative journalist and a local community member about the alleged crises at the private Northwest ICE Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Register below! bit.ly/InsideTheMargin

Join us for our first Inside: The Margin LIVE briefing on Tuesday at 6pm PST. This is an opportunity to hear from the investigative journalist and a local community member about the alleged crises at the private Northwest ICE Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Register below! bit.ly/InsideTheMargin

🔴 Join us for our first LIVE briefing of Inside: The Margin on July 8th at 6pm PST. We’ll do a deep dive on our recent exposé by @ricomoore.bsky.social on the alleged abuse and contaminated water crisis at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Register here: bit.ly/InsideTheMargin

🔴 Join us for our first LIVE briefing of Inside: The Margin on July 8th at 6pm PST. We’ll do a deep dive on our recent exposé by @ricomoore.bsky.social on the alleged abuse and contaminated water crisis at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Register here: bit.ly/InsideTheMargin

The Washington State Department of Ecology claims that the EPA Superfund site around the Northwest Detention Center is remediated. But an underground benzene plume exists just below the surface, not far from where the detention facility now stands.

Suicides, forced labor, and “brown and possibly contaminated” water: Rico Moore with @themarginus.bsky.social unmasks how ICE contractor The GEO Group built a toxic, billion-dollar empire on incarcerating migrants.

In Toxic Detention investigates the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA where detained migrants face toxic groundwater, corporate profit motives, and years of alleged abuse. Read the story by @ricomoore.bsky.social in collaboration with @thenation.com

“You are not alone.” @laresistencianw.bsky.social has been fighting the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA, for 11+ years. Our new investigation in collaboration with @thenation.com, In Toxic Detention by @ricomoore.bsky.social, exposes why. themargin.us/features/in-...

The disastrously warming climate in Alaska and subsequent housing shortage is leading tribal communities to “extreme acts of adaptation,” including dragging homes across tundra to safer ground. By Jess Zhang and Megan Gannon for @themarginus.bsky.social

In Houston, a mandatory home buyout program allows residents to build new lives safe from devastating flooding like that experienced repeatedly in the Allen Field neighborhood. Uprooter Amal Ahmed for @themarginus.bsky.social themargin.us/features/aft...

"While the emotional suffering North Carolinians endured cannot be calculated, some figures bring the picture of other damages into clearer view." Trey Walk and Christian Monterrosa for @themarginus.bsky.social themargin.us/features/pur...

Alaska is warming 2–3 times faster than the global average, and Native villages are on the frontlines. From flooding to permafrost collapse, the climate crisis is becoming a housing crisis. New from Jess Zhang and Megan Gannon in collaboration with @thenation.com & @economichardship.bsky.social

In Nunapitchuk, AK water damage from floods in 2020 rendered several homes uninhabitable, forcing some residents to move in with family and friends, increasing already high rates of overcrowding. Read our latest investigation in collaboration with @thenation.com & @economichardship.bsky.social

In Nunapitchuk, AK water damage from floods in 2020 rendered several homes uninhabitable, forcing some residents to move in with family and friends, increasing already high rates of overcrowding. Read our latest investigation in collaboration with @thenation.com & @economichardship.bsky.social

Photos by @katiebasilephoto.bsky.social Read the full story at themargin.us/features/sav...

Alaska is warming 2–3 times faster than the global average, and Native villages are on the frontlines. From flooding to permafrost collapse, the climate crisis is becoming a housing crisis. New from Jess Zhang and Megan Gannon in collaboration with @thenation.com & @economichardship.bsky.social

📚 What the Floodlight team is reading: @themarginus.bsky.social on lessons from Houston’s mandatory buyout program following Hurricane Harvey.

After the hurricane, they were told to leave. Our latest story looks at the lessons from Houston’s mandatory buyout program following Hurricane Harvey. This is a story for every flood prone community in America. themargin.us/features/aft...

A new story from Jess Zhang and Megan Gannon arrives Thursday April 24th at themargin.us Photo by @katiebasilephoto.bsky.social

A new story from Amal Ahmed is available now! themargin.us/features/aft...

After the hurricane, they were told to leave. Our latest story looks at the lessons from Houston’s mandatory buyout program following Hurricane Harvey. This is a story for every flood prone community in America. themargin.us/features/aft...

Pursuing Higher Ground is a new story from @walktrey.bsky.social and Christian Monterrosa that looks at the impacts of Hurricane Helene six months later…

A new story from Amal Ahmed arrives Thursday, April 10th at www.themargin.us Photo by Danielle Villasana

Mining for the clean energy transition is on the rise in the US. With 65% or more of lithium and copper projects within 35 miles of Tribal land, Native American communities worry about damage to public health, biodiversity, and sacred sites. By @ottavias.bsky.social for @themarginus.bsky.social.

A new story from Amal Ahmed arrives Thursday, April 10th at www.themargin.us Photo by Danielle Villasana

Our latest story is an intimate look at the rebuilding efforts in Western North Carolina, 6 months after Hurricane Helene by Christian Monterrosa and @walktrey.bsky.social themargin.us/features/pur...

Much of the media may have moved on but the crisis isn’t over. Six months after Hurricane Helene, Appalachia is still rebuilding. Meet the families, small business owners, and local leaders shaping the recovery — one story at a time. themargin.us/features/pur...

Much of the media may have moved on but the crisis isn’t over. Six months after Hurricane Helene, Appalachia is still rebuilding. Meet the families, small business owners, and local leaders shaping the recovery — one story at a time. themargin.us/features/pur...

Our latest story is an intimate look at the rebuilding efforts in Western North Carolina, 6 months after Hurricane Helene by Christian Monterrosa and @walktrey.bsky.social themargin.us/features/pur...

Following a five-year fight, the Hualapai Tribe is the only Indigenous Nation to stop a lithium mine from moving forward in the U.S… At least for now. Check out our latest story by @ottavias.bsky.social themargin.us/features/min...

Following a five-year fight, the Hualapai Tribe is the only Indigenous Nation to stop a lithium mine from moving forward in the U.S… At least for now. Check out our latest story by @ottavias.bsky.social themargin.us/features/min...

A new story by Christian Monterrosa and Trey Walk arrives Thursday!! In the meantime check out last week’s investigation at themargin.us

A growing market for renewable energy technologies has increased demand for lithium and other critical minerals. The extraction of these minerals, however, is far from sustainable. We examined three legal cases in which Tribes sued BLM for approving mining projects in violation of federal law.

Mining the Past, Threatening the Future: Facing the brunt of the mineral rush, Tribal Nations sue the federal government. themargin.us/features/min...