If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?

If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?

A stretch of the Mississippi River once called "Plantation Country" is now the "Petrochemical Corridor", known to those who breathe its toxic air...

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Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024

Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024

Since 2014, Palestinian farmers along Gaza’s perimeter have seen their crops sprayed by airborne herbicides and regularly bulldozed, and have...

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'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland

'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland

On 2 June 2020, the PPB deployed large amounts of tear gas in an attempt to force protestors to withdraw from the streets and squares of downtown...

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The Battle of Ilovaisk: Verifying Russian Military Presence in Ukraine

The Battle of Ilovaisk: Verifying Russian Military Presence in Ukraine

In late summer of 2014, the Ukrainian Armed Forces battled pro-Russian separatists for control of the town of Ilovaisk, in the border region of...

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The Enforced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa Students

The Enforced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa Students

On the night of the 26-27 September 2014, a group of students and activists from the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa were attacked in the town of...

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Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest

Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest

Since Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of Brazil in 2019, vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and...

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Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta

Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta

Vaca Muerta, Argentina, is one of the world's largest shale oil and gas deposits, that deposit is also home to the indigenous Mapuche people. In...

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A City Within a Building: Mariupol Drama Theater

A City Within a Building: Mariupol Drama Theater

Before it was destroyed by a Russian airstrike, the Mariupol Theater was a key refuge in the besieged city, a unique site of solidarity and...

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Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia

Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia

The region, on Colombia’s northwestern Caribbean coast, is the heartland of the country’s banana industry. Urabá is known for extreme political...

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Nakba Day Killings

Nakba Day Killings

Every year on 15 May, acts of memorialization and resistance take place throughout Palestine to commemorate the Nakba catastrophe of 1948, when...

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Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura

Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura

Commissioned by Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, this investigation reveals new evidence about massacres conducted in the...

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Lethal Warning: The killing of Luai Kahil and Amir al-Nimrah

Lethal Warning: The killing of Luai Kahil and Amir al-Nimrah

On July 14 2018, in Gaza City, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, two Palestinian teenagers climbed onto the rooftop of the al-Katibah...

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Rafah: al Tannur Neighbourhood Strike Methodology

Rafah: al Tannur Neighbourhood Strike Methodology

Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture (FA) were denied entry into the Gaza strip, and as such our investigation into the bombardment of...

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The Use of White Phosphorus in Urban Environments

The Use of White Phosphorus in Urban Environments

We examined videos from the 2008–2009 Gaza conflict, and from Fallujah, Iraq, where US forces had deployed against the Iraqi army in white...

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The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas

The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas

Shortly after midnight on 18 September 2013, Pavlos Fyssas, a young Greek anti-fascist rapper, was murdered in Athens, in his home neighbourhood of...

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Russian Strike on Kyiv TV Tower

Russian Strike on Kyiv TV Tower

On 1 March 2022, Russia launched a missile strike on the Kyiv TV tower. The missiles targeting the TV tower landed on the territory known as Babyn...

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Ecocide in Indonesia

Ecocide in Indonesia

In 2015, fires in the Indonesian territories of Kalimantan and Sumatra consumed over twenty-one thousand square kilometres of forest and peat lands...

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No Traces of Life

No Traces of Life

Building on Forensic Architecture’s previous investigation into herbicidal warfare and its effects on Palestinian farmers along the eastern...

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Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015

Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015

On 28 October 2015, a migrant boat left the coast of Western Turkey heading to the closest European coast – the Greek island of Lesvos. The...

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Drone Strike in Mir Ali

Drone Strike in Mir Ali

On 4 October 2010, a home on the outskirts of Mir Ali, North Waziristan, was struck by several missiles. The attack killed five people, including...

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