Illicit economies must be recognized as drivers of deforestation and global climate risk. Climate and biodiversity agreements should align with the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime ...

Sofía Jarrín Hidalgo, an Ecuadorian anthropologist and international advocacy advisor for the Western Amazon at Amazon Watch, has over 16 years of experience in human rights and environmental justice.

Raphael Hoetmer, a Dutch researcher, educator, and activist, has lived in Latin America for over two decades. Currently, he is the director of the Western Amazon Program at Amazon Watch, an associate ...

During recent fieldwork in Puerto Rico, students in the Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Clinic at NYU Law met with ...

Joelle Besch is a JD candidate at the New York University School of Law and a former student advocate in the Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Clinic.

Samuel E. Suleiman-Ramos is the executive director of SAM and an ecological restoration practitioner, leading numerous coral reef and seagrass ecological restoration initiatives, marine mitigation ...

Belém puede ser recordada como un punto de inflexión, cuando el mundo dejó de tratar a la Amazonia como una víctima y comenzó a desmantelar las economías criminales que impulsaban su colapso. La ...

Los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos amenazan cada vez más los arrecifes de coral y las comunidades humanas que estos ...

Tom Driver is a British-Brazilian Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford, pursuing an MSc in Latin American Studies. Previously educated at Cambridge and Harvard, Tom has also worked in ...

The affective qualities of film can help reframe humanity’s relationship with the natural world. The idea of humanity as subject and nature as an object to be tamed has bred a philosophy of conquest, ...

This concept can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted. Epistemology, broadly defined as the study of theories of knowledge, can help us comprehend the nature and ...