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The remains of one of 14 people likely sacrificed to accompany a high-ranking elite in pre-Incan Peru in Cajamarquilla, Peru. Reuters/Stringer

Peru has demanded compensation for an oil spill that has been dubbed an “ecological disaster” by the Peruvian government, Reuters reported. A tanker owned by the Spanish oil company Repsol was unloading oil at La Pampilla refinery when unusually high waves from the volcanic explosion near Tonga caused the spill.

All the homes on Mango, one of Tonga's small outer islands, have been destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, with three people so far confirmed dead, the government said Tuesday.

“Not a single drop of oil is going to come out of the Amazon until the government takes care of us,” said campaigners.

As the Climate Crisis Grows, a Movement Gathers to Make ‘Ecocide’ an International Crime Against the Environment International lawyers, environmentalists and a growing number of world leaders say “ecocide”—widespread destruction of the environment—would serve as a “moral red line” for the planet. By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma and Yuliya Talmazan April 7, 2021 The Fifth Crime:  First in a continuing series with NBC News about the campaign to make “ecocide” an internationa...

The regime of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori sterilized 272,028 people between 1996 and 2001, the majority of them Indigenous women from poor, rural areas – and some without consent. Now, in public hearings that began earlier this year, thousands of these women are demanding justice for what they say were forced sterilization procedures called tubal ligations. Sterilization was a covert part of Fujimori’s “family planning” policy, which purported to give women “the tools necessa...