The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for ...

One of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the fallout from climate change has won a landmark legal battle, giving ...

In a landmark decision, the International Court of Justice found that polluting countries are now legally obligated to ...

The UN's top court on Wednesday ruled climate change an "existential problem of planetary proportions" and said countries had ...

The United Nations’ top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change. The International Court of Justice’s ...

When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose ...

The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The ...

The world’s highest court went on to state in its decision that recognising the “urgent and existential threat” currently facing the world, those harmed by human-caused climate change may ...

On July 23rd, after two years and an unprecedented number of submissions from governments and international institutions, the ...

director of Global Climate Change Litigation at Columbia Law School. "I think it will create this new wave of climate ...

Judges with the U.N.’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a ...

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is living with the everyday catastrophe of climate change. On Wednesday, backed by more than 130 countries, Vanuatu will get its day in the world's highest court.