In pictures: World Environment Day Show all 8. Your support helps us to tell the story. ... 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, ...

If we want a world where our human and environmental rights are elevated, we must place as much importance on our responsibilities to humanity and the planet as we put on our rights. The Universal ...

Powerful pictures of environmental destruction to honor Earth Day on April 22, 2013.

J Henry Fair/2019 CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year "Hambach Forest was nearly 12,000 years old when it was bought by a power company to dig for the brown coal buried underneath," says ...

New York’s new constitutional right to a clean environment faces first judicial test A case challenging a landfill provides the first insights into how the courts — and state officials ...

The U.N. environment program is taking aim at corporations and governments that threaten and intimidate environmental defenders and foul the planet for financial gain. A panel of environmental ...

A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration violated the free-speech rights of nonprofits and municipalities that have had federal funding for climate and environmental projects frozen or cancelled.

This week, the Phnom Penh Capital Court handed down a guilty verdict in the criminal trial of 10 activists from Mother Nature, an award-winning, youth-led Cambodian environmental group, on charges ...

As Human Rights Watch’s work in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and elsewhere shows, companies are often responsible for environmental destruction or other rights abuses.

Does the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan violate the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act, as a lawsuit alleges? ("Court blocks Mpls. 2040 plan, for now," June 16, and "Minneapolis allowed to ...

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing a right to a healthy environment is the call issued in a new book by Franklin Kury, who more than 50 years ago, as a newly elected Pennsylvania ...

First tabled in 2021 by the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the bloc’s declaration on environmental rights, known as ADER, aims to provide an unprecedented regional ...