Retail giant Walmart is currently facing a lawsuit after allegedly throwing hazardous waste in landfills across California, according to state officials.
Violence against the defenders of the environment persists despite that one way to prevent the emergence of infectious diseases like the coronavirus is the preservation of ecosystems that the targeted victims care for.
After several environmental disasters, it seems Brazil's government has never learned from the effects of environmental degradation as it announced on Friday it was pushing ahead its plans to allow European companies to conduct mining on indigenous lands.
A damage on the spillways of Oroville Dam has already caused massive displacement of 200,000 of California residents. Officials are still uncertain to when they can say that it is already safe to go back to their homes.
Rio de Janeiro, which had promised to clean up their heavily polluted waters by the time the 2016 Olympic sailing events are held there, is having a problem keeping to their pledge
Pluspetrol, an Argentine oil company has announced that it will withdraw from an area of the Peruvian Amazon known as Pichanaki where it has been prospecting for potential gasoline deposits
A new report published by Green For All showed that a majority of minority voters (70 percent) stated that they were more likely to support candidates willing to increase resources to challenge environmental issues over candidates who reject such efforts.
