An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental ...

Federal court says government not obliged to shield residents of Torres Strait Islands from effects of climate change.

The ruling said the government did not owe a duty of care to protect the Torres Strait islands from climate change.

For more than 10 years, a funding model has quietly done what many others have struggled to do: Funnel nature and climate ...

The battle for the human right to a healthy climate is raging in courts in the Global North and the Global South, and ...

The lead plaintiffs, Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai from the islands of Boigu and Saibai, sought orders requiring the ...

That’s why, at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, a group of governments and private funders pledged $1.7 billion in direct support of indigenous peoples.

The case before the ICJ, led by Aguon’s law firm, Blue Ocean Law, hopes to establish legal consequences for nations that have driven climate change, and illuminate what obligations those ...

As new variants continue to emerge, there is growing evidence that global warming could influence transmission of the virus ...

The International Symposium on Indigenous Communities and Climate Change, held Dec. 6 and 7 at the Princeton Public Library and Princeton University, brought together scholars and journalists to ...

One of the major announcements from the United Nations climate summit in Scotland last month, known as COP26, was the Glasgow Declaration on Forests and Land Use, along with the related funding it ...