As world leaders filled the halls of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, in Brasilia, a Jatoba tree made its way through the gates of the Norwegian embassy, as a climate refugee. Indigenous activists ...

What do suburban neighborhood spats, climate activism, and Indigenous traditions have in common? They’re all feeding into a growing movement to grant trees legal rights. Right now, tree wars in the ...

Q: The house directly behind ours has been vacant for 3 1/2 years. The problem is an enormous oak tree that is leaning precariously. If it falls, it will hit another neighbor's house and the huge ...

Christopher Stone, who in 1972 made what seemed a whimsical argument – that forests and rivers should have rights in the eyes of the law – and in the following decades found that his work was ...