Founded in 2018 and based in Atlanta, The Xylom grows healthy, interconnected communities across the world.

As the only Asian American-run news outlet dedicated to science, climate, and environmental coverage, we believe in leveraging our lived experiences to become your most trusted resource on environmental health impacts and democracy.

You might've heard of us when:

1. Our scrutiny into the Office of Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens' numerous baseless claims about the "environmental stewardship" of "Cop City" led to the deletion of a press release and won us an Atlanta Press Club Award;

2. We created the first MARTA weekend service dashboard, which revealed the full extent of Atlanta's transit crisis;

3. We became the first foreign news outlet to report on the devastating ecological and economic impacts of the Mumbai Coastal Road as it approaches completion and Maharashtra's first-in-the-nation unproven plan to sterilize leopards.

We are 100% supported by readers and grants. We will never have a paywall, nor do we sell ads or do sponsored content.

This is a space for our musings, behind-the-scenes looks at how we do journalism, and a curated collection of science stories you have to read, with a focus on the American and Global South!

Our work is not free, so consider giving an optional donation to keep our lights on. Thank you!

_{The Xylom is a member newsroom of Covering Climate Now, the Climate News Task Force, the INN Network (including its Rural News Network), LION Publishers, and Alliance of Nonprofit News Outlets. We are fiscally sponsored by the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, a 501(c)(3) registered in the District of Columbia.}