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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. These lawsuits face three key barriers. First, who can stand as a plaintiff? Most climate-change harms will be in the future and in often-distant low-latitude countries.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Born in Johannesburg, Mendel began photographing major floods in 2007 when one in England and another in India occurred within two weeks of each other. © GIDEON MENDEL, From the Home of John Jackson, Toll Bar Village, South Yorkshire, UK, June 2007. Courtesy of the artist. Shared Vulnerability. Photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

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