Global Witness’s latest annual report shows that at least 196 people were killed last year defending the environment, up from 177 killed in 2022. Latin America is still the most violent region for ...

Environmental justice and gender violence may seem like separate issues, but a new paper from a University of New Mexico professor argues that the two are closely linked. Miriam Gay-Antaki, assistant ...

Toxic pollution is the single largest cause of death and poor health, killing up to 9 million people each year—about 100 times more than war and terrorism combined. Business produces the bulk of this ...

We could argue that environmental violence is the most urgent societal disorder of the day, as it continues to increase in its capacity to bring about our extinction. Given the crucial importance of ...

Women are routinely killed for their environmental activism, and there isn’t enough data available to help stop it. Women are routinely killed for their environmental activism, and there isn’t enough ...

Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo was watching television in his living room in May when a group of motorcyclists pulled up outside the gates of his home in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the riders ...

The Niger Delta has been in crisis since 1956 with the discovery of oil in Oloibiri. The crisis hasn’t been spectacular; it has been slow and constant with major environmental and social consequences.

In his Wednesday talk titled “How Violence Drives the Planetary Crisis,” Yale History Professor Sunil Amrith identified armed violence as a unifying thread across the three aspects of the triple ...

Gland, Switzerland, January 29, 2020 – The degradation of nature can lead to gender-based violence including sexual assault, domestic violence and forced prostitution, according to a new IUCN study ...