Rights of Nature

Remembering the ‘Visionary’ Author of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment

Franklin Kury, who passed away last week, helped make Pennsylvania one of the first governments in the world to guarantee a healthy environment as a basic right.

By Marie Cusick

Rights of Nature Laws Are Coming Up Against Legal Systems Designed for Destruction

By Katie Surma

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia’s Magdalena River From Fracking

By Katie Surma

In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science

Story and photos by Katie Surma

How a Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change National Laws

By Katie Surma

How a ‘Powerful Vision’ on Whales and Oceans Could Change Worldviews

By Katie Surma

Scientists Push for More Ambitious Climate Targets

By Bob Berwyn

‘I Am the River’: How Indigenous Knowledge Reshaped New Zealand’s Law

By Katie Surma

In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins

By Katie Surma

Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution

By Katie Surma

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights?

By Katie Surma

Ecuadorians to Vote on Constitutional Rewrite, Possibly Gutting Rights of Nature

By Katie Surma

Defending Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon

By Teresa Tomassoni

How a Declaration of Ancestral Wisdom Is Changing Law, Science and Our Understanding of the World

By Katie Surma

The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights

By Katie Surma

The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales

By Katie Surma

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River

By Katie Surma

What Are the Rights of Nature?

By Katie Surma