SIERRA: Affordability and Race Play a Major Role in Whether People Live in Nature-Deprived Areas

The Nature Gap: Communities of Color and Those With Low Incomes Bear the Brunt of America’s Nature Loss

The experience and burdens of nature loss are not distributed equally. What’s more, the nature gap is fundamentally a health gap because whenever nature disappears, community health declines.

Nature-deprived areas also tend to be more vulnerable to climate change impacts such as extreme heat and flooding. As the report explains, “National analysis shows that areas with the most severe nature loss also face the highest climate dangers: more severe flooding, deadlier extreme heat, stronger storms, and increasing coastal hazards.”

Read the report and learn about the community-based groups leading solutions.