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“Dramatic” global rise in laws defending rights of nature

Canoes Nigeria

Washington DC, US Thomson Reuters Foundation From Bolivia to New Zealand, rivers and ecosystems in at least 14 countries have won the legal right to exist and flourish, as a new way of safeguarding nature gains steam, US environmental groups said on Thursday. Rights of nature laws, allowing residents to sue over harm on behalf […]

Laos dam collapse hits communities who already lost homes, livelihoods

Thomson Reuters Foundation Activists called for renewed scrutiny of hydropower projects in Laos after a dam that was under construction broke, killing at least 19 people as it swept away homes in flash flooding. More than 3,000 people need to be rescued in a remote part of the country’s south, where at least seven villages […]