Katie Surma

Amid the corporate events pervading New York’s “Climate Week,” an international people’s tribunal he...

Eduardo Mendúa, a member of the Indigenous A’i Cofán peoples, resisted the expansion of oil operatio...

Most people are “very” or “extremely” concerned about the state of the natural world, a new global p...

Imagine oil workers appearing in your backyard and drilling without warning. Think of constant noise...

There was a time when the most dangerous part of Hugo Loss’ job was the grueling rainforest terrain ...

Africa’s top human rights commission said the Democratic Republic of Congo violated the rights of In...

A new lawsuit asks Colombia to recognize that jaguars, military macaws and the nation’s tropical dry...

When scorching temperatures rocked the East Coast last month, heat-related emergency room visits in ...

RURRENABAQUE, Bolivia—Beneath a setting sun, marchers clad in feathered headdresses and hand woven c...

Just weeks before Astrid Puentes Riaño took over as the United Nations’ top expert on human rights a...

An international tribunal said on Tuesday that countries have binding legal obligations to prevent g...

Climate change and environmental destruction are becoming increasingly central to the human rights m...

MINDO, Ecuador—Natalia Greene ducks her head underneath the fronds of a giant fern. It is pitch blac...

The ink is barely dry on a Colorado town’s first rights of nature resolutions, yet a motion to repea...

As high-consuming economies like the United States and Europe move to supplant fossil fuels with low...

CLEVELAND—When Tish O’Dell began community organizing in her hometown of Broadview Heights, Ohio, in...

The Environmental Protection Agency may have wasted or risked millions of dollars by failing to prev...

Small island developing countries are increasingly becoming locked into a cycle of environmental dis...

AÑELO, Argentina—Ana Guircaleo was deep in slumber when a thunderous crash jolted her awake. Guircal...

Africa’s great apes—from gorillas to chimpanzees and bonobos—are under far greater threat than scien...

Residents of La Oroya, Peru, known as one of the most polluted cities on Earth, have won a landmark ...

Aruba’s government is moving to enshrine twin environmental rights in its constitution that would re...

The Marañón River, which flows from Peru’s Andes mountains into the Amazon river, has “intrinsic” va...

A new U.N. report sheds light on how climate change is driving some climate-vulnerable nations deepe...

The past few years have been a triumph for traditional Indigenous knowledge, the body of observation...

Humans are driving migratory animals—sea turtles, chimpanzees, lions and penguins, among dozens of o...

CLEVELAND—The ailing Cuyahoga river, bloated with industrial pollution, erupted into flames reaching...

Lawmakers in Utah are advancing legislation aimed at stopping a growing “rights of nature” movement ...

A town in Colorado has appointed two legal guardians to act on behalf of nature—in this case, a sect...

Ireland—a nation synonymous with its abundant, verdant landscapes—is considering a nationwide refere...