One of the mega projects juicing the saliva glands of corporate Canada is the construction of an all weather highway from NWT across the tundra, through the ranges of several endangered caribou herds to the Arctic coast, to foster industrialization of the Arctic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0J...

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Hunters from an Arctic community release a new film about impacts of a proposed road and port on an already dwindling #Caribou herd. New in our news section, www.northerncaribou.ca/news

I hope that: Modernity stumbles before human enterprises commit a sixth mass extinction (and necessarily self-terminate Homo sapiens in the bargain); Humans continue to enjoy a place on Earth after modernity fails, living authentic ecological lives; Biodiversity recovers and builds to new heights.

Those guilty of polluting the planet, the missive read, should “be witness to some of the most destructive eco-sabotage and criminal damage ever seen”—though the anonymous authors took pains to make clear that all violence should be inflicted on property, not people.

Why humanity is likely driving a mass extinction, even though we may never be able to fully measure its scale because most species remain undiscovered; Why rising wealth and technological efficiencies have resulted in more ecological degradation, not less;

The global energy supply in 2025 comprised 518 exajoules of fossil energy, and 83 exajoules of everything else, with fossils comprising 86.2 percent of the total, down from 86.6 percent in 2024. Thus, for the first time in human history, humanity’s primary energy use exceeded 600 exajoules.

Finally, the pronatalist discourse is largely misconceived. Perceptions of fertility decline often conflate lower birth rates with a shrinking population (Dowd, 2025). In reality, while global fertility is declining, the number of women of reproductive age is projected to rise.

This summary discussion mainly focuses on history, 'war' being defined as between two 'states', which doesn't count in nomadic HG ancestors. So basically the vast majority of Homo sapiens species lifespan has been war-free. It's really recent […]

They became institutionalized as city-states and empires arose about 5,000 years ago. Population growth was needed to strengthen state power and outnumber competing empires, so women were pushed into producing as many children as possible.

As anthropogenic climate change and habitat alteration reshape prey distributions and ecosystem dynamics, wolves may face novel selective pressures, particularly in small, isolated Arctic populations.

Canada has passed the 1 million ha area burned mark. Still below the 10 year normal for area burned for this time of year. However, 2026 just passed 2024 that turned out to be a very active year. Expect an active summer fire season and possibly an extended fire season going well into Autumn.

June 2026 was warmer than normal in Canada, with pockets of cooler anomalies here and there. Warmest June on record in Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay, and rainiest June on record in Edmonton.

The rising demand for meat comes at a time when agricultural land is already becoming less fertile, with an area the size of Canada now suffering degradation. This situation is worsening: about 90% of water withdrawn from natural systems for irrigation is used to grow animal feed.

"The biggest threat to barren-ground caribou in the NWT is industrial development" .

Rainbow over my garden at 10 pm. I love summer in the Yukon.

Over just the last couple decades, the footprint of animal agriculture has dramatically worsened, driven by a global: 53%⬆️ in livestock populations, 22%⬆️ in their GHGs, & 27%⬆️ in cropland use for feed. New report on the trends since the seminal 2006 FAO "Livestock's Long Shadow": rb.gy/1873pj

Corporations and the empires that host them have amassed so much power that it seems the only way out of the nightmare of our ecocidal and genocidal techno-capitalist civilization is the nightmare of civilizational collapse triggered by climate and biosphere breakdown.

What many overlook is the other side of that relationship: Wildlife can help heal our climate. Wild animals help shape how ecosystems store carbon, move nutrients, recover from disturbance, and remain resilient as conditions change.

The flowers of the Saskatoon berry bushes are really beautiful this year. I hope I will get a lot of berries.

Tipping points are critical limits in human pressures–such as greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, pollution–beyond which small changes can trigger large, potentially abrupt and hard to reverse shifts in components of the Earth system.

Smith: unleashed dogs in backgountry double risk of bear attack. Yet, some people still think 'their' dog will protect them. Unleashed dogs in wilderness are bad for everyone: the dog, people, bears, other wildlife. Leave dogs at home. 🧪 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Despite birthrates declining in many countries, global population is going up, projected to swell by 2 billion to 10.4 billion by the 2080s, with vast ecological and social consequences. Extreme climate events are expected to kill more than a billion people and displace up to 3 billion this century.

The current outlook for bats is not too promising. In North America more than half of all species are at risk of severely declining populations in the next 15 years, according to a 2023 report by the Bat Conservation Alliance. The trend is mirrored globally.

The modern city concentrates human bodies at high density, imports energy and biomass from elsewhere, converts those flows into economic activity and waste, and presents the arrangement as civilisation. Feedlots and cities perform the same function for different species.

The bats in my bat house are happy with the amount of mosquitos this year.

There are about 345,000 kilometres of seismic lines crossing boreal peatlands in Alberta alone, which would go around the Earth nine times if laid end-to-end, representing a massive chunk of forest that has been damaged.

In fact, Turiel notes, because the manufacture of renewables depends on the consumption of fossil fuels, they represent just another embedded compartment of the megamachine.

No amount of dollars will bring species back from extinction. No hollow funding announcement will calm the pain of an endangered orca on the West Coast carrying her dead calf through a habitat that shrinks with each megaproject approved by the federal government.

If sufficiency is the principle of “enough,” which justifies specific policies and practices, I would say that degrowth is its macroeconomic counterpart: the deliberate, equitable downscaling of an economy as a whole.

"We highlight how much we're already stuck in a figurative 'Anthropocene quicksand', where only an active pull can free us from consequences like global heating [and] even very modest continuation of GHG emissions will keep us at high warming levels." agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Reach little buddy! #BeaverWatch #NatureConservation #WildlifePhotography

in the year 2025, increasing at a rate of 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2016–2025. This high rate of warming, which matches the all-time high seen last year in the instrumental record, was caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 54.6 ± 5.5 GtCO2e yr.

Bajaj defines pronatalism as the cultural pressure to have children to meet the demands of state power and economic growth. She said pronatalism has been a feature of patriarchal states for thousands of years.

Civilization is no way to comport ourselves on this planet, since that road leads to a sixth mass extinction. For millions of years humans lived in satisfying political arrangements as free agents in egalitarian bands enjoying great autonomy and freedom from coercion. They were anarchists.

A study, led by Myers, observed that managed honeybees “have not been able to compensate for wild pollinator losses nor keep pace with the growth in pollinator-dependent crops that rely on them”. This, the study says, makes the use of managed bees a risky solution to compensate for wild pollinator.

Agriculture is the worst mistake in human history.

Animal ag in the US is figuratively and literally a shit show, with that shit running off into the rivers and making dead zones in the oceans, while what ground water that isn’t being depleted is being toxified and forests are being razed for pasture and feed crops.

We built a civilization where harm is not released in accidents, but shed continuously through ordinary use. Like most environmental damage, tire microplastics do not cause failure immediately. They accumulate quietly until tolerance is exhausted — and then consequences appear suddenly.

The sheer weight of humans is ten times greater than that of all wild mammals combined. More broadly, the human enterprise has effectively merged (albeit destructively) with the ecosphere and is warping major geophysical processes from the climate and water cycles to landscape erosion.

Against all the mindless alarmism about the so-called “fertility crisis”, the real crisis is that majority of women and girls around the world do not have reproductive autonomy. According to UNICEF, almost 650 million women and girls alive today were child brides -because of #pronatalism.

May monthly CO2 average breaks record again: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...

Complete collapse of the system, as painful as it may be, is the only option to prevent the biosphere from being consumed by the technological beast. Failing this, our technological “progress” will become our annihilation.

Our modernity-steeped culture is prepared to do anything to keep the sixth mass extinction fully underway—I mean, keep modernity intact. Same thing.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a 19.6-million-acre designated wilderness in northeastern Alaska. A refuge, created in 1980, that was meant to be protected. A refuge that the Trump administration has legally clawed open for oil and gas development.

2026 is now on track to be just above 1.5C for the year as a whole in ERA5, though exactly how warm it will be is conditional on how quickly El Nino develops in the latter half of the year.

By some estimates, 190 million animals are used in research globally each year. Despite this figure being miniscule compared to the 85+ billion animals killed for food annually, animals used for experimentation and research often live horrible lives and are subjected to extreme acts of violence.

May 2026 was full of temperature swings in #Canada, but overall the warm anomalies slightly outweighed the cold ones. Ontario was cooler than normal while BC, the Prairies, most of Nunavut and Labrador were warmer than normal.

I am well aware that this vision doesn’t fit well with cities of 20 million people sourcing their food from all continents. But the right question is “Why should there be such cities?”

The Porcupine caribou undertake one of the longest land migrations on Earth, travelling roughly 4,000 kilometres. Their hooves pound out undulating paths across their 250,000-square-kilometre range, moving between communities across the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Alaska.