Filipina-American activist Kai Sorem went to the Philippines to defend the environment. Her death is a chilling reminder of the increased dangers faced by LGBTQ2S+ advocates abroad

Israel has decimated Lebanon’s land — and is also slaughtering the people who protect it.

Israel has decimated Lebanon’s land — and is also slaughtering the people who protect it.

The U.S.–Israeli war on Iran has caused massive environmental devastation, adding to the long history of American wars with toxic legacies.

The Pentagon is preparing to wage war in a warmer world, even as it accelerates it

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

The battle in the Central Valley is just one of many happening against dairy farms and new manure digester projects in the state. Farmers say they are trying to be better neighbors.

For women working in India’s fields and factories, gender disparities heighten the risk of climate-linked chronic kidney disease.

Activists are targeted in Philippines human rights violations and militarization.

More than 2,000 Indigenous languages are at risk of disappearing this century — and with them we could lose vitally important traditional ecological knowledge.

Defender is a mostly monthly newsletter focused on global environmental violence, human rights and how I report on those issues as a freelance journalist.

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented pH readings below 5.5 in 42 of my 73 climate-exposed…

Activists are targeted in Philippines human rights violations and militarization.

Nick Tilsen, founder of NDN Collective, spent nearly four years fighting felony charges that he says were politically motivated.

Anita Varma on her forthcoming book, Solidarity in Journalism, the limits of the advocacy vs. journalism conversation, and more.

At the U.N., leaders confronted compounding crises of territorial violence and digital extractivism.

On the Papuan plantation frontier, industrial oil palm concessions are creating new ways of thinking about hunger: as a force that haunts, as a form of shame, as a source of anger.

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Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.

About 3,800 workers for the world’s largest meatpacking company began striking Monday. If they don’t get a new contract soon, already costly beef could become even more expensive for U.S. consumers.

A scene of devastation in Minab, Iran, as parents waited to know the fate of their young daughters after the bombing of a girls' elementary school killed over 100.

On February 4, the Philippines signed an agreement with the United States on critical minerals at a U.S. hosted summit in Washington. The meeting was attended

With many rivers and aquifers tapped beyond their limits, UN scientists say the world is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy.'

“We thought nothing like this could happen in Italy until we found ourselves right in the middle of it.”

Identifying the shooter in Minneapolis, The Intercept found a photo captioned “Jon Ross in Iraq” posted by a man noted in public records as his father.

For more than two centuries, Tamil tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka have been trapped in poverty, enduring structural discrimination and hazardous conditions despite repeated promises of reform.

One year since the ecological disaster, the news cycle has moved on. But the people who live here dwell in the aftermath

Donald Trump promised to end forever wars, but the US military budget recently topped a trillion dollars while the country ramps up spending.

Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.

Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released…

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Journalism cannot be neutral toward a threat to the conditions that make it possible.

Forty years after a pesticide company leaked toxic chemicals into the air and water of Bhopal, these women are still fighting for justice.

Forty years after a pesticide company leaked toxic chemicals into the air and water of Bhopal, these women are still fighting for justice.