“Caribou really dislike crossing roads. They really dislike being around or near mine infrastructure,” Gurarie said. “The places that caribou once visited a lot, they now visit a lot less because of this fragmentation and avoidance.”

It did warm up to - 32 C. It will be easier to go to the outhouse....

Our results point to shifting agriculture, commodity-driven deforestation, and forestry being the top three drivers of forest loss within the assessed raptor ranges. Commodity-driven deforestation—that is, permanent loss of forest habitat due to agriculture, mining, or energy infrastructure

Every characteristic that defines us as a species—compassion for unrelated others, intelligence, foresight and curiosity—evolved in the Pleistocene (Shepard, 1998). We became human as hunters and gatherers and we can regain our humanity when we return to that way of life.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that 13,581 species are currently threatened by mining.

…agricultural expansion is the primary driver of land-based biodiversity loss, while overfishing is the leading cause of marine biodiversity declines. Both are worsened by an increasing human population through higher consumption and production.

Since then, Carney has removed key planks from Canada's climate plan: cutting the consumer carbon tax, pausing the electric vehicle mandate, backing additional LNG exports and potentially supporting the building of another bitumen pipeline to the Pacific coast.

#newissue Our latest issue Number 58 is now published! doi.org/10.22584/nr5... Thanks to Ray Marnoch, Whitehorse, for the dazzling cover art photo "Layers of Autumn Splendour at the Takhini Salt Flats" #openaccess #multidisciplinary #YukonUniversity

The project looks at the critical state of the Bathurst caribou herd, the Dene researchers working to protect it, and what the animal means to Dene people and their families. A survey counted just 3,609 adult Bathurst caribou, down from 6,851 in 2022 and from an estimated 470,000 in the mid-1980s.

“Hell is here” isn’t a metaphor. It is a daily reality for millions of nonhuman lives and increasingly for human ones. Honesty doesn’t cause collapse. It simply names the collapse we were born into.

False hope fills me with despair. It surprised me how many of those who (should) know better have been celebrating the *false* narrative that the Paris agreement has supposedly limited warming to below 2.6°C this century. Genevieve breaks it down here:

Over the last two decades, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd has plummeted from nearly half a million to some 164,000 — a 66 per cent decline, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. No to Ambler road.

🌡️ November 2025 was the third-warmest November on record globally, keeping 2025 on track to be the second- or third-warmest year recorded. The global three-year average temperature for 2023–2025 will likely exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time.  Read more ⬇️

More fundamentally to survival, AI data centers are stealing basic needs, like water, clean air, land, and energy. Water has been diverted from residential sources to cool data centers while land has been gobbled up, sometimes at public expense, that might otherwise house wildlife and human beings.

Their silence in the forest is not absence; it is sovereignty. It is a reminder that freedom does not always speak loudly — it often lives quietly, beneath the canopy, where the human spirit remains truly untamed.

People often don’t consider that farmed seafood still comes from animals who, themselves, need to eat. And their food comes either from wild-caught fish or feed crops: Farmed fish consume about 1.2 trillion other fish, amplifying the pressure of industrial fishing.

Oh Canada! For the third year in a row, Canada set a new record for the warmest fall (Sep-Nov).

Collectively, we are using far, far too much of everything: land, water, metals and minerals, lumber, living creatures, and more. We must decrease our use of all of it. It’s way past time to power down, and not just find another way to keep the machine running full speed ahead.

Vuntut Gwitchin elder Lorraine Netro said ANWR contains six months' worth of oil reserves and she questioned the value of extracting oil in the coastal plain. “Imagine that, six months of oil in this sacred area. And the United States wants to drill and destroy our very livelihood," she said.

Overpopulation is not merely a policy failure; it is a failure of consciousness. A species that cannot see where its hunger comes from will consume its own home. A civilisation that defines success through accumulation will accumulate until nothing remains.

Canadians use more than four times as much energy per capita as the world average, and 17 times as much as the average person in 1800 before the fossil fuel blowout got started. Half of the world’s population presently lives at, or below, levels of per capita energy consumption circa 1800.

Farmed pigs weigh as much as all of the world’s whales, orcas, sea otters, seals, and dolphins combined. All the dogs in the world, including pets and feral dogs, weigh as much as all wild mammals on land.

Why the so-called "abundance agenda" and its proposed weakening of environmental laws creates an abundance of concrete and a scarcity of nature; How the renewable energy abundance of solar and wind farms, and AI data centers, spells even greater destruction of wildlife habitat;

The modern villain doesn’t clear-cut a forest; they approve a permit. They don’t burn wetlands, they subsidize the companies that do. They don’t deny the consequences outright. They deny them by minimizing them, recasting them as overblown, or insisting technology will solve them “later.”

Kemp also argues that a “deep collapse” would level the playing field, equalize wealth and discredit Goliath’s institutions and leaders. “A deep collapse,” he says, “could provide fertile soil for democracy to take root.”

"The new types of societies that arrived with the first empires,” writes McDonald, “were extracting and expanding rapidly, to the detriment both of the ecological diversity in their region and certain members of these societies.” These “parasitic societies” …

The number of people living in cities has more than doubled since 1950, when urban dwellers accounted for 20% of the world’s 2.5 billion people, according to the report. Now they comprise nearly half of the planet’s 8.2 billion people.

Life in the woods, north of 60.

We are witnessing how a technological elite wants to turn us into humachines. Humans at the service of technology, favoring those who hoard power. We let it happen, we even promote, but what are the consequences? How can we confront this new form of dehumanization? www.instagram.com/p/DRatnrxgQY...

The rapid pace of change to our habitat, combined with mounting evidence of compromised function in industrialised environments, leads to the hypothesis that industrialisation has created an environmental mismatch.

Loblaw said this grid tie is really about powering the mines — among them, the colossal Casino project, which, as it stands, would be off-grid, meaning fossil fuels would be needed to power it. Loblaw said the grid tie would fuel further harm to the land.

Of all herds, only the Porcupine herd in Yukon, Alaska and parts of the northwestern NWT is thought to be at or near an all-time high – but the United States’ move to open up drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could fundamentally alter the herd’s calving grounds.

Land-use change stemmed from rapid population growth and economic development, with population density rising from 30 to 430 people per square kilometer between 1913 and 2022.

It should go without saying that the first step in #rewilding is to keep what's left untouched. There's so little that hasn't been marred by humans left that there should be not one more inch of development on the relatively pristine wildands left. Not one more inch.

Africa has the highest fertility rates in the world — the continent’s human population has more than tripled since 1979, to around 1.5 billion today, and is projected to more than double again by 2070. This is bad news for elephants, very large-bodied mammals that require vast tracts of wilderness.

The proposed Casino gold mine, for example, would use more power (200 megawatts) than the territory produces (148 megawatts). A steady supply of hydroelectricity from the national grid would allow the company to adjust its plans to power the project with LNG.

Reducing the climate impact of air travel is a key goal, as the sector continues to expand globally. Aviation contributes 2.5% of global carbon dioxide emissions, but the industry is responsible for 5% of global warming

Acceleration “In 2015 our projected deadline for reaching 1.5°C was 27 years away. Now that threshold is only 4 years away – 23 years closer. This striking change suggests that global warming has accelerated quickly in recent years.” Source: climate.copernicus.eu/rapid-approa... #ClimateCrisis

Despite the critical role that forests play, deforestation continues at an alarming rate primarily driven by the expansion of agricultural land.

We've been hearing plenty recently about how Canada will save the world's climate through electrifying and exporting LNG. Here is the plan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...

The newest data show an estimated 28,759 adult Bluenose-East caribou. That’s down from the 39,525 counted in 2023. In 2021, officials counted only 23,202.

But the forest, the world's largest wild walnut grove, has for years been slowly fading—hit by the overgrazing of livestock, illegal logging and rising temperatures.

The Aka-Bo are just one of countless peoples who’ve been wiped out through forced contact. For the 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups that Survival has identified that exist, the threat of gen*c*de is still very real. Take action to stop more Indigenous peoples being wiped out: svlint.org/SurvivalB

The new 2025 Global Carbon Budget finds that fossil fuel emissions will reach a new high in 2025. Total CO2 emissions (including land use) remain flat at 2024 levels. While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...

And oilsands emissions figure very prominently here. In 2023 those emissions were a record 89 million tonnes. This new record was nearly six times higher than the 15 million tonnes the oilsands emitted in 1990. Becoming the fourth-largest oil producer in the world.

When agriculturally degraded land is allowed to rewild, even on its own with no hands-on restoration, carbon stocks and biodiversity loss can often rapidly approach pre-disturbance levels.

Extraction of the very metals needed to address global warming will be increasingly impeded by the extreme weather that accompanies climate change.

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded #Canada’s rating to "Highly insufficient". It has weakened policy ambition, implementation is slow; there's a widening gap between current emissions levels and its 2030 target. This despite 2025 seeing second worst wildfire season in history. bit.ly/CAT_CAN

Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention. THE most critical tasks of our time are: • Protect what remains of wild ecosystems • Mass rewilding where damaged or lost www.earth.com/news/africas...

Wilderness and rewilding are about freedom.