The EU Overhauls Its Law Covering Environmental Crimes, Banning Specific Acts and Increasing Penalties The European Parliament is expected to approve the new directive early next year. It’s not clear whether the emission of greenhouse gasses at certain levels could constitute crimes. By Katie Surma
The International Criminal Court Turns 20 in Turbulent Times. Should ‘Ecocide’ Be Added to its List of Crimes? By Katie Surma
Fifty Years After the UN’s Stockholm Environment Conference, Leaders Struggle to Realize its Vision of ‘a Healthy Planet’ By Katie Surma
Activists Deplore the Human Toll and Environmental Devastation from Russia’s Unprovoked War of Aggression in Ukraine By Katie Surma
The Essential Advocate, Philippe Sands Makes the Case for a New International Crime Called Ecocide By Katie Surma
The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault By Georgina Gustin
Coal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe By James Bruggers
A Plea to Make Widespread Environmental Damage an International Crime Takes Center Stage at The Hague By Katie Surma
‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth By Marianne Lavelle
Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People By Nicholas Kusnetz
Indigenous Women in Peru Seek to Turn the Tables on Big Oil, Asserting ‘Rights of Nature’ to Fight Epic Spills By Katie Surma
Does Nature Have Rights? A Burgeoning Legal Movement Says Rivers, Forests and Wildlife Have Standing, Too By Katie Surma
Berta Cáceres’ Murder Shocked the World in 2016, But the Killing of Environmental Activists Continues By Katie Livingstone
Are Bolsonaro’s Attacks on the Amazon and Indigenous Tribes International Crimes? A Third Court Plea Says They Are By Katie Surma
The US Nuclear Weapons Program Left ‘a Horrible Legacy’ of Environmental Destruction and Death Across the Navajo Nation By Cheyanne M. Daniels
Indigenous Leaders and Human Rights Groups in Brazil Want Bolsonaro Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity By Katie Surma