Activism

WASHINGTON—Eight climate activists arrested after storming the field at the annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park and held overnight...

As a 75-year-old asthmatic, Bernice Ramos was not supposed to be out walking in blistering heat, let alone going around...

In the early 2000s, the Peruvian government granted a Canadian silver mining company a license to begin exploratory operations in...

In less than half a day, you could walk all the way around the 10 acres the endemic species Tiehm’s...

Early this year Colombia was lauded by NGOs and journalists around the world for protecting its forests. Deforestation had dropped...

ALBANY—Citizens who breathe air polluted by New York’s largest landfill have no legal right under the state’s Green Amendment to...

Eighty-five days into a hunger strike, German environmental engineer and climate activist Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick had lost more than 61 pounds,...

WASHINGTON—After the House of Representatives passed legislation that would allow mining companies more legal rights to federal lands by a...

Maryland’s two largest health systems have taken contrasting positions on their future dealings with a controversial medical waste incinerator in...

Climate change and environmental destruction are becoming increasingly central to the human rights movement.  Droughts, toxic pollution, water shortages, desertification,...