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A Hunger Strike Ends, but an ‘Unreasonable’ Woman’s Battle Against Corporate Polluters Marches On

Four decades into her crusade against Texas petrochemical plants, a retired shrimper remains determined to fight Dow, the largest chemical company in America.

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

 Diane Wilson sits in her tent, 14 days into her hunger strike, outside Dow’s Seadrift complex on March 16.
Nazir Khan, co-founder of the Minnesota Environmental Justice Table, speaks during a rally on Friday at the Hennepin County Government Center near City Hall to launch a hunger strike against a polluting trash incinerator. Credit: Courtesy of Geoff Dittberner/Zero Burn Coalition

Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

By Keerti Gopal
Waorani Indigenous leaders protest oil exploitation in Yasuni National Park in front of Quito’s Constitutional Court on Aug. 20, 2025. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts

By Katie Surma
Thousands of activists take to the streets of New York City for the “March to End Fossil Fuels” on Sept. 17, 2023. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements

By Ryan Krugman
Human rights attorney Alejandra Gonza (right) stands with Brenda Díaz Valencia, who is holding a photo of her father, Antonio Díaz Valencia, and his colleague Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 3, 2024. The two men disappeared after criticizing mining practices in Mexico. Credit: Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images

Defending Human Rights Is Dangerous. Defending Nature Makes It Even Riskier

By Katie Surma
Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo has been a park ranger in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park for two decades, fighting to protect the park from extractive industries. He is facing legal battles and constant threats of physical danger for his work as an environmental defender. Credit: Moses Sawasawa/CliDef

New Report Condemns Increasing Violence and Legal Retaliation Against Environmental Activists

By Keerti Gopal, Mathilde Augustin
Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol addresses a session on day five of the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow on November 4, 2021. Credit: DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images

Activists Urge the International Energy Agency to Remove Paywalls Around its Data

By Andrew Marquardt and Jeannie Kopstein

Farmers work in their crops of potato on November 13, 2020 in Ventaquemada, Colombia. Credit: Diego Cuevas/Vizzor Image/Getty Images

Killings of Environmental Advocates Around the World Hit a Record High in 2020

By Georgina Gustin

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