Against the backdrop of Sierra Leone’s lush coastal landscape, a pivotal moment in the fight for environmental rights in Africa is unfolding. Activists, legal experts, and civil society leaders from ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s government on Tuesday approved joining OPEC+, a group of major oil-exporting nations, ...

Hundreds of land and environmental defenders are threatened, arrested and killed every year for their part in resisting ...

Environmental Day at the Arizona Legislature, conservation advocates talked about the issues they wanted lawmakers to address ...

The consequences of the Trump administration firing thousands of environmental employees from the federal government could ...

After a decade of war and displacement, many Syrians are returning to their homes, only to find them looted and roofless.

Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, is home to more than 20 million people and has been in the news many times due to climate-related issues such as heat waves, urban flooding and bad air quality. On ...

The Trump administration has placed on leave nearly 200 employees who work on environmental justice programs at the ...

That included the revoking of Executive Order 12898, President Bill Clinton’s landmark order establishing federal actions to address environmental justice in minority and low-income populations ...

I n 1996, the New York-based civil rights organization known as UPROSE was struggling. Founded by Puerto Rican activists, the ...

Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — national bird of the United ...

Staffers with the Office of Environmental Justice were informed their department is expecting a notice that the office is closing or they are being placed on leave as early as Thursday.