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Environmental activists killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022
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Environmental activists killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022

Colombia was the deadliest country and a fifth of the 177 recorded killings took place in the Amazon rainforest, says Global Witness.

At the Serpentine, a show of nature's healing power

At the Serpentine, a show of nature's healing power

The climate crisis is inspiring — and requiring — new perspectives in thinking for the London gallery, starting with “Back to Earth.”
More than 200 environmental activists and land defenders murdered in 2019
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More than 200 environmental activists and land defenders murdered in 2019

That's the highest number of such killings on record for a single year.

Editorial: In the fight to save the planet, its defenders are being killed
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Editorial: In the fight to save the planet, its defenders are being killed

Those who resist powerful industries that savage ecosystems and drive people off their land face death and fear.
A Philippines grandmother fought to get a toxic coal stockpile out of her neighborhood. Three bullets stopped her
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A Philippines grandmother fought to get a toxic coal stockpile out of her neighborhood. Three bullets stopped her

Gloria Capitan was shot to death last summer after campaigning against a coal stockpile. That was only the beginning.

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