Italy’s Poison Ships: How an International Trade of Hazardous Waste Sparked a Grassroots Struggle for Environmental Justice
A reflection on the globalization of toxic waste as a global environmental justice issue, both at home and abroad.
A reflection on the globalization of toxic waste as a global environmental justice issue, both at home and abroad.
This article studies mobilization against GMOs in Portugal since the 1990s.
Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of the lake and caused a slow cataclysm of pollution, affecting wildlife and livelihoods.
Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create new “natural” areas along the shore.
This article charts the rise and fall of ocean incineration and describes how coastal communities and transnational organizations challenged it.
This article investigates the pollution of the Ergene River as an outcome of the hegemonic cosmology in Turkey.
The residents near Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants at Gyeongju, South Korea, protest to claim their rights to live with dignity.
With the drying of its sister lake for purposes of agricultural development, Pamvotis is suffering accelerating degradation.
As Himalayan wildlife is endangered by improper waste disposal practices, activist groups like Waste Warriors are working to solve this crisis.
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.