The best Environmental Justice newsletters

RIVERS is a freshwater-focused newsletter mixing investigative reporting on hydroelectric threats in Ecuador with personal essays and field notes from expeditions and river ceremonies. Readers get first-hand accounts of paddling remote rivers and the environmental and legal fights around them.

A Malaysian artist's newsletter mixing studio diaries (printmaking techniques, linocut process, editions) with reports on community activism against an oil refinery in Port Dickson. It offers personal, reflective writing on art, ecology and organizing, with practical printmaking tips.

A personal portfolio-style newsletter sharing creative technology projects such as sound maps and p5.js coding pieces alongside reflective eco-narrative writing. Readers get project statements and place-based essays about ecology, community and the more-than-human world.

Deceleration is an online environmental justice journal covering fossil fuel expansion, immigration enforcement, water and power in Texas and beyond. Recent issues report on LNG export expansions on the Gulf Coast, a podcast on ICE and local policing, and data centers undermining climate plans in El Paso and New Mexico.

Just Solutions publishes reporting and interviews on climate justice, environmental justice fights such as the opposition to carbon capture projects in Louisiana, and community resilience work in Southeast Los Angeles and the San Diego border region. Readers get grounded, interview-driven accounts of local organizing and policy around the climate crisis.

Sprawlism is an urban criticism newsletter that examines how power, segregation and municipal fragmentation shape climate vulnerability in New Jersey and New York. Its issues pair political commentary on local elections and policy with arguments about infrastructure such as snow removal and home rule.

Essays and updates from Dallas Gudgell on Indigenous perspectives, decolonizing wealth, environmental and climate justice, and human relationships with the more-than-human world. Issues mix reflective writing with announcements of talks and podcast appearances on wildlife coexistence, buffalo restoration and collective healing.

Surge is a Lowcountry (Charleston, South Carolina) climate magazine and radio project covering local environmental justice fights, such as Gadsden Creek and the I-526 extension. It shares audio episodes, interviews with organizers, and links to its print issues.

Hope In Focus shares updates on Indigenous-led and migrant justice organizing, including the Apache Stronghold's legal fight to protect Oak Flat, alongside personal reflections from the author. Issues mix reposted reports from the Apache Messenger with first-person writing on movement building and care.

Counterstream is a podcast-style nonprofit media project covering climate and environmental justice in the US, featuring long interviews with journalists and activists. Each issue promotes an episode of its show A People's Climate, with a summary, key topics and links to listen.

Newsletter from the POCACITO Network, a community organisation running experiential learning for social and environmental equity. Issues mix event announcements (youth forum, transatlantic climate justice forum) with recap posts and slide-deck links from GANBASE nature-based solutions exchange visits.