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Landmine decimation of Ukraine’s farmlands, forests, rivers and the Black Sea ecosystem “will take decades to address”.

Landmine decimation of Ukraine’s farmlands, forests, rivers and the Black Sea ecosystem “will take decades to address”.

Polly Higgins co-founded Stop Ecocide International, which looks into crimes against nature.

On December 3, 2019, the Pacific island state of Vanuatu made an audacious proposal: Make ecocide—the destruction of nature—an international crime. “An

Also, Bank of Canada holds rates steady yet again, Canada at risk of another bad wildfire season, and French PM in Canada to talk trade

In a groundbreaking call to action, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is being urged to confront environmental crimes head-on.

A decades-old movement aims to make it an internationally prosecutable crime.

Countries will have two years to put the updated directive, which covers crimes 'comparable to ecocide', into national law.

Belgium has become the first European country to recognise ecocide as a crime at both national and international levels

Just when you think nothing stupider can come out of the World Economic Forum, we get this: Farming is a serious crime and is equal to genocide. Yes, you read that correctly. These pearls of wisdom come from Jojo Mehta, co-founder, CEO and key spokesperson of Stop Ecocide International. According to Ms. Mehta, any activity…