These disruptions may impact the long-term survival of bird populations — making the future uncertain for hundreds of species across North America. Indeed, the total North American bird population has lost a staggering 2.9 billion birds since 1970 — a 29% decline.

Like any technological product manufactured by industrial processes from raw materials extracted from the earth, solar panels have an ecological footprint that negatively impacts the more-than-human world.

"The planet’s life support systems are already under strain and, without rapid shifts in how we use energy, land, and food, billions of people will face increasing instability. Our study shows these limits are unfolding right now.”

The old of civilization is always falling apart even as it newly grows. Additional decay forced by climate change need only grow by 0.1%/year to lead to civilization collapse by 2070, sooner for higher rates. We will collapse slowly then all at once. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Yukon Territory, Canada had the coldest March since at least 1950, easily exceeding 2007 and 1964. There is no significant long term trend in March average temps. Data from ERA5 reanalysis courtesy @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social. #ytwx #Canada #Climate @jkanadisk.bsky.social @evaholland.bsky.social

March 2026 temperatures in the Arctic varied dramatically. Much of Arctic North America was very cold. Coldest March on record (since 1950) forYukon Territory, Canada. Northwest Territories 2nd coldest & Nunavut 3rd coldest. ERA5 reanalysis courtesy @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social. #Arctic #Climate 1/2

Collapse is often framed in abstract terms: GDP curves, debt ratios, sea‑level projections in 2100. Food refuses abstraction. When the system that feeds you becomes unreliable, you feel it in your stomach before you see it in a graph.

In a news release last week, the First Nation says those rights include the right to exist and thrive throughout its natural range; the right to ecological protection; the right to be free from destructive industrial activity; and the right to representation and legal protection.

Evolution can happen anywhere with genetic variation and selection pressures — from our cities to our pesticide-laden crop fields to our antibiotic-laden bodies. How much protected area should we set aside to witness how evolution will unfold when (to the extent possible) we keep our hands off?

Whitehorse -8.4 C. It was a cold month.

“The hard truth is you do not rebuild the herd by just focusing on the animal. You rebuild it by fixing the land first, because that's [the] caribou's home,” Rabbitskin said. He says that means limiting further industrial development, like mining and logging roads.

The enormous gap between that sustainable number and today's population of now 8.3 billion highlights the scale of global overconsumption. They argue that this overshoot has been hidden for decades by heavy reliance on fossil fuels, which boosted food production, energy supply, and industry.

This will keep me warm for some time.

Seems like a problem. Not "the" problem because we have many -- dysfunctional economic & political systems, among others -- but ever-growing population is a key driver. If this were any other species besides humans we'd recognize it for what it is. But it's us, so we can't be the problem.

If a practice degrades ecosystems, drives species decline or treats animals purely as commodities to be killed, can we still question it? Or are we required to accept it as culturally or economically valid?

The Arctic remains one of the last places where large-scale terrestrial migrations still unfold largely intact. But that distinction is increasingly under pressure. Proposed infrastructure projects such as the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor in northern Canada.

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.

Roads would be decommissioned, riparian systems restored by encouraging the return of beavers, livestock grazing ended, and fences and other industrial infrastructure removed from the landscape. This vision must incorporate traditional ecological knowledge.

A Ricker logistic model fitted to the negative phase predicts that the global population could reach 11.7 to 12.4 billion people between 2067 and 2076. The same model fitted to the facilitation phase predicts a maximum population of 2.5 billion people that Earth might be able to maintain.

Industrial civilization is killing life on earth. It needs to be dismantled.

Life in the woods is good. High gas price = less trucks with snow machines.

Snowshoe hare at - 30 C. I have to put extra wood in my stove. All animals in the Yukon are tougher than me. Humans lived and hunted in this valleys for 10000 years.

“Much of the beauty we find in nature – the scents of flowers, the colours of butterflies and the sounds of songbirds – did not evolve with us as the intended recipients, yet we still find these signals captivating,” said Sarah Woolley, study co-author and Associate Professor of Biology at McGill

Instead, their hunting was organised in a way that even enormous prey animals could be deliberately targeted. The research also found that the human ancestors consumed plant foods like hazelnuts and acorns alongside meat.

Forests burn. Rivers are contaminated. Wildlife disappears. Soils are scarred by craters and heavy metals. Entire ecosystems are pushed into states from which they may not recover. Yet the environmental dimension of war is rarely discussed.

Going to work to make the Rich richer. No, thank you.

According to their report, the top 1 per cent of economic families in Canada hold 24 per cent of the country’s total net wealth; the top 10 per cent hold 53 per cent of total net wealth; and the top 20 per cent hold 69 per cent of total net wealth.

Having slain over 200 million people since 1850, it is arguable that the nation state is the most destructive invention humans have ever made – and maybe it is now time to consign it to the garbage tip of history before it destroys us all.

FFS. They are building another road for a cyanide heap leach gold mine. The project includes the installation of a power plant and generators, and will use approximately 19 million kWh of energy and as much as four million liters of water a day.

Destroying the last wild places on earth for what?

I am reading the 1999 spring issue of Wild Earth again, it was one of the best. Coming home to the Wild. Rewilding for Evolution. Bring back the Elephants. Why we need Mega reserves. Just amazing.

The insanity of the system that destroys life on earth.

The snow shovel doesn't get a break this winter.

9/ A sanity check, forget the lag model entirely. The annual mean took 30 years to go from 0.5°C to 1.0°C, and 14 years to go from 1.0°C to 1.5°C. If the next 0.5°C takes the same 14 years, we reach 2.0°C around 2038. Not 2050. Are we prepared for that?

we live in the worst society in history, one where everyone is miserable, one that is literally killing everything alive, and millions defend it every day because they can’t imagine anything else

The sun is shining after another snowfall. The snowshoe hare likes it as well.

The expansion of knowledge has unfolded alongside the expansion of harm. The damage is neither unforeseen nor poorly understood; it is documented in real time. What impedes response is not ignorance, but the gravitational pull of convenience, entrenched power, and habitual patterns of consumption.

The world lost as much as 95 million hectares of non-forest natural ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas and wetlands, to annual crops between 2005 and 2020. A comparable area (95 million hectares more) was likely converted to pasture. Together, this is an area nearly as large as Indonesia.

The most concerning part of Canada’s slow progress toward 30x30 is not that lands and waters aren’t being protected quickly enough to meet the target, but that they continue to be degraded and destroyed at a faster pace than being conserved. This imbalance is not new, but it is accelerating.

What was life like before farming? Was it nasty, brutish, and short? Or did our hunter-gatherer ancestors live lives that were relatively free, affluent, and ecologically stable?

But in places like Mount Lorne, a hamlet located forty kilometres south of Whitehorse, off-grid residents are rallying around the blue jug. “The world turns and places change, but I feel like Mount Lorne is a little bit of a gem because we’re still very community oriented,” says Jess Sellers.

A degraded ecosystem, released from constant pressure, is being allowed to biologically manifest itself as fully as it still can. And that turns out to be enough to reorganize abundance.

Good morning grouse. Grouse are sitting on my my deck. They really like the sand under the cabin.

Currently, half of farmed insects end up in the pet food market, and only a few percent of total production goes to direct human consumption. In practice, it mostly replaces already low-impact plant ingredients, not high-emission animal products.

Agriculture has simply not had time to prove itself, and has every indication of being an ecological misfit that has monotonically pushed us toward this moment of planetary peril.

Global population is now approaching 8.3 billion people, who together consume 105 billion tonnes of materials a year – almost twice what the Earth can sustainably supply. That’s thirteen tonnes of materials to support every human – four times more than in the past.

Once again I’ll make the point that we should be actively seeking how to reduce our overall collective energy consumption rather than trying to replace our current level with different sources.

Gain back capacities for food autonomy, gain back traditional skill sets required for meeting basic needs, and to reestablish traditional indigenous and hunter-gatherer inspired socioeconomic lifeways centered on relations of ecological wellbeing within bioregionally specific contexts.

The power sector emitted more than 5.6bn tonnes of carbon dioxide (GtCO2) in 2024 – meaning that if it were its own country, it would have the highest emissions of any country except China itself.

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