Fifty years of logging, gold mining, and soy plantations have decimated the Amazon rainforest: about 17 percent is gone. Why isn’t that a crime on the level of genocide? That’s what Jojo Mehta, a U.K.

On June 6, Ukraine suffered an environmental catastrophe. The collapse of the Kakhovka dam in the south of the country sent water thundering downstream, killing more than 100 people according to ...

The ecocide bill would allow for people to be jailed for up to 20 years for damaging the environment.

A panel of 12 lawyers from around the world has proposed a legal definition for a new crime that the lawyers want to see outlawed internationally: ecocide, or widespread destruction of the environment ...

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The two big pieces of legislation to ...

Mass environmental destruction, known as ecocide, would become an international crime similar to genocide and war crimes under a proposed new legal definition. The definition’s unveiling last week by ...

After six months of deliberation, a panel of 12 independent legal experts from across the globe on Tuesday unveiled a working definition of “ecocide” that they hope will be adopted by the ...