The Hague, Netherlands - The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out top polluters' responsibilities ...

A group of Pacific Island student activists who successfully brought the issue of climate change action to the United Nations ...

This month's meeting of the International Maritime Organization is a critical test of whether governments are heeding July's ...

A CHamoru human rights lawyer from Guam and a youth-led Pacific organization are receiving one of the world's most ...

A youth-led student group and a human-rights lawyer that took the issue of climate to the International Court of Justice have ...

The International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have a legal duty to curb climate change was the result of a yearslong campaign that began with university students. Vanuatu’s Climate Change ...

The United Nations’s top court announced Wednesday that if countries fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, they could be in violation of international law. The International ...

Plaintiffs who sued the U.S. government in 2015 for promoting fossil fuel policies and failing to protect them from climate ...

THE HAGUE — The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion Wednesday said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from ...