Sandra Liliana Pena was a human rights defender in Colombia. A member of an Indigenous group known as the Nasa and the Paez, she eventually became the governor of a reserve in the Cauca community, ...

Oil giants like Exxon are often connected to social disputes over land and other resources in developing countries. International corporations in extractive industries such as mining and oil ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Roughly one-third of all environmental conflicts documented in an online crowd-sourced atlas affect Indigenous peoples, researchers have found. The ...

To mark International Women’s Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Brazilian authorities to empower women journalists reporting on environmental issues in the Amazon, a region where ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has formed a new office designed to help marginalized communities deal with the extra burdens of pollution and climate change, Reuters has reported. The ...

People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to towns and cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October. Eventually, their lives will be restored and their homes ...

A coalition of 24 Republican state attorneys general in demanding answers from the nation’s top asset managers to determine if they are neglecting their fiduciary duty to their clients. The letter ...

A mining venture that improves the environment? That’s the image Aclara Resources, a Peruvian mining company seeking to extract rare earth elements in the BioBio region of Chile, tries to project.

ALBANY — Major environmental protection measures that had been planned as jewels of the 2024 legislative session ended in uncommon failure this month amid internal conflict among Democrats and after ...