Deforestation in Brazil sped up greatly in the past year, partly due to a change in forestry law that people campaigned to stop.

A US judge rebuked the US government for not prosecuting any banksters for their frauds.

The search for informers in dissident groups on UK college campuses is part of a broader pattern of repression.

The presumption that people looking for food to survive after a disaster are "looters" regularly provides an excuse to repress them.

Japan has effectively abandoned its plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions.