Two Lakes, Two Streams and a Marsh Filed a Lawsuit in Florida to Stop a Developer From Filling in Wetlands. A Judge Just Threw it Out of Court By Katie Surma
Baltimore’s ‘Catastrophic Failures’ at Wastewater Treatment Have Triggered a State Takeover, a Federal Lawsuit and Citizen Outrage By Aman Azhar
Fifty Years After the UN’s Stockholm Environment Conference, Leaders Struggle to Realize its Vision of ‘a Healthy Planet’ By Katie Surma
In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights By Nicholas Kusnetz
Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It By Katie Surma
California Attorney General Investigates the Oil and Gas Industry’s Role in Plastic Pollution, Subpoenas Exxon By James Bruggers
Environmentalists in Chile Are Hoping to Replace the Country’s Pinochet-Era Legal Framework With an ‘Ecological Constitution’ By Katie Surma
Panama Enacts a Rights of Nature Law, Guaranteeing the Natural World’s ‘Right to Exist, Persist and Regenerate’ By Katie Surma
New Mexico Could Be the Fourth State to Add a Green Amendment to Its Constitution, But Time Is Short By Aydali Campa
In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River By Katie Surma
In San Francisco’s Most Polluted Neighborhood, the Polluters Operate Without Proper Permits, Reports Say By Elena Shao
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
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
More Young People Don’t Want Children Because of Climate Change. Has the UN Failed to Protect Them? By Elena Shao