Ecocide: The fifth crime

Graduate students in the Washington Program of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism produced a series of stories on climate change and the campaign by environmental activists and legal scholars to make ecocide the fifth crime before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

The students, who are in the Politics, Policy and Foreign Affairs Specialization program, fanned out across the U.S. to report on examples of severe environmental damage and its effect on local communities.

This work was part of a collaboration with Inside Climate News and NBC News. The students contributed their original writing, reporting, photography, data analysis and video storytelling, and collaborated with Inside Climate News staff members.