A new multi-generational study suggests that the effects of violence can remain in your genes—and be passed down to future ...

Environmental factors might increase the general risk of gun violence, perhaps by making it more likely that a young person will start carrying a gun in the first place.

Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment face intimidation, legal harassment, and deadly violence. Human Rights Watch champions human rights law to force ...

Recent allegations of violence at the SANAE IV Antarctic research base highlight the urgent need to improve safety in remote ...

It’s like a virus,” he said. According to reports from Global Witness, environmental land defenders are at a high risk of intimidation and violence. Last year, nearly 200 people, half of whom ...

Unsustainable mining, logging, and poaching practices both perpetuate violence and devastate the environment in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, where mining cobalt and coltan for ...

In response to the rising wave of violence against women and environmental destruction across Bangladesh, Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement and BotTala are coming together to organize a cultural ...