The 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize (known as the "Green Nobel" and the world's leading grassroots environmental award) has been awarded to six women, marking the first time in the prize's 36-year history that all recipients are female. The winners — from Nigeria, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea, the United States, and Colombia — each receive $200,000 for activism ranging from halting oil fracking and copper mining projects to winning landmark climate litigation and protecting endangered bat species. The cohort's achievements include a Colombian fisherwoman who stopped commercial fracking in her country, a South Korean youth activist who secured a constitutional court ruling against her government's climate policy, and a British campaigner whose Supreme Court victory now requires authorities to weigh global climate impacts before approving fossil fuel extraction.