Activism

The women had come from across the world, convening at the United Nations Plaza to share the struggles they’d faced...

RICHMOND, Va.—In the middle of Monroe Park, the central gathering spot for students at Virginia Commonwealth University, Carolyn Hindle, a...

Pope Francis’ care for the environment was telegraphed early in his papacy. His chosen name honored St. Francis, the Italian...

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, an Indigenous Kukama leader from the Peruvian Amazon, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize...

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—The promises, like the floodwaters, have come in waves.  Over the years, Pastor Timothy Williams, a resident of...

The Trump administration announced Friday that it was terminating a historic settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Alabamians...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Ellen McLaughlin said she wasn’t speaking for herself.  “I speak for the salamanders,” she told those gathered at a...

When a gold mine in rural Liberia spewed three million gallons of cyanide-laced wastewater into soil and groundwater in 2016,...

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of cities, towns and villages across the country on Saturday to protest...

When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin made a defiant reference to “climate change religion” in order to justify a...