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.

"We are not talking about if these migratory bats go extinct. We are just talking about when," said Cori Lausen, director of bat conservation with the Wildlife Conservation Society, based out of B.C.

Yukon's recent hard rock mines have a 100% failure rate, so a 'lower chance of failure' is a pretty low bar: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Human and ruminant population sizes are increasing by approximately 1.3 million and 0.5 million individuals per week, respectively (figure 1a, 1c). Global gross domestic product reached an all-time high in 2025, on the basis of preliminary data, with the world economy expanding by approximately 3.5%

These are not faceless statistics. These are families who have buried their loved ones in the same ground where they hunted, fished and gathered for generations. Their displacement is not just a loss of land; it is a loss of language, tradition, and the rhythm of life itself.

In the Yukon, the longest land migration on earth is under threat: thenarwhal.ca/counting-por...

These processes accelerated considerably following technological innovations introduced in the 19th century, with the global human population growing from 1.2 billion in 1850 to the current 8 billion individuals over less than 200 years.

So plastics, like climate change, while they garner a lot of headlines (and not much action) are only a small facet of a very much larger, Earthwide problem: the metacrisis or compound human emergency.

Caribou and muskoxen help preserve shrub free tundra, which keeps the ground cooler and slows climate warming. We need more #caribou www.arcticwwf.org/the-circle/s...

“Opening the entire coastal plain of the Arctic refuge to drilling would destroy one of the most ecologically significant landscapes on earth – the birthing grounds of the porcupine caribou herd, vital habitat for polar bears and migratory birds, and sacred land for the Gwich’in people.

While nations have repeatedly pledged to protect their forests, they continue to be cut down, albeit at a slower rate in some areas. In 2024, more than 8m hectares (20m acres) of forest were permanently lost.

🚨 Launched: State of Wildfires Report 2024-25 The Americas felt the harsh reality of what it means to live on a more fire-prone planet, with extreme #wildfire episodes made 2-3 times more likely by #climate change. 🔥 Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/

The fate of Asian elephants is more than a conservation issue, as it reflects the bigger question of whether humanity can share land with wildlife in an increasingly developed world.

When you see the cold numbers -- 8% cuts in emissions needed per year, every year, from now -- it's clear that even 2° is a fantasy (Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)

As the Guidelines note, rewilding seeks to reinstate self-regulating, resilient ecosystems capable of adapting to change and supporting life in all its diversity.

Temperatures were warmer than 5°C above the 1981-2010 average in September 2025 across northern Canada and into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The southern route of the Northwest Passage was ice-free and open for transit this past melt season. Data freely available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.

The capitalist worldview, with its emphasis on infinite growth and the commodification of nature, is the primary antagonist to the rewilding vision. This perspective frames "freedom" as the liberty to exploit and consume, and views the natural world as a collection of resources to be owned and sold.

A recent study that analyzed DNA from caribou fossils dating back 21,000 years projected North American caribou populations could see average declines of 84 per cent by 2100, if the planet warms by two to three degrees Celsius.

The enemy is not “us” but rather the peculiar economic system we stumbled into 10,000 years ago. Understanding how hunter-gatherer economies functioned as social systems has direct relevance for today’s environmental and social policies. l 💡

Yes - because it works across Canada already "there is clear, strong evidence to show that when people feel they have a secure income, they have the opportunity to get the education and employment that can better their lives and their families"

New paper out! This was a fun collaboration with Dr. Trent Holliday, Libby Cowgill, and Scott Maddux to work up a broad review on Neanderthal cold adaptations ranging from technological to physiological. This is a good one for teaching. We referred to our collaboration as the "Coldies but Goodies"

The last three years (so far) account for more than a quarter of all hectares burned by wildfire in Canada over the last 43 fire seasons.

Whenever I suggest that humans might be better off living in a mode much closer to our original ecological context as small-band immediate-return hunter-gatherers, some heads inevitably explode, inviting a torrent of pushback.

Using the largest dataset to date, the report presents the clearest — and starkest— picture of wildlife loss in Canada yet. More than half (52%) of the species studied are decreasing in abundance. On average, every species group included — birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles and amphibians.

An honest and imperfect response to the climate crisis would require a political, behavioural, economic and moral transition that would systematically reduce our energy and material consumption at an unprecedented pace.

Check out this beautiful interview in @terrainorg.bsky.social with #author Elspeth Hay about #farming, #food, and the future: "we need a new economic system to regenerate life instead of gambling with it." www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...

Emissions from the oil and gas industry rose, especially the oilsands, offsetting any emissions reductions in other sectors like transportation and buildings, it said.

To ensure a sustainable level of resources for future generations, global consumption will need to be reduced from 12.6 metric tons per capita in 2022 to below 5 metric tons per capita by 2050.

It bears repeating that if you are anti-anti-fascist, you’re just a fascist.

IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C By @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #climatecrisis www.carbonbrief.org/iea-reiterat...

Despite its manifold and clear benefits, rewilding (along with other NCS) is not a pancea for all our troubles, many of which are rooted in the systemic issue of human ecological overshoot, and it is this that must be addressed to begin fixing the current global polycrisis.

Sounds good to me.

We remind @theguardian.com and everyone else that there is no such thing as an "anarcho-capitalist." Anarchists do not assume control of governments, order police to brutalize protesters, or immiserate populations for the benefit of the rich. Anarchists seek to render those things impossible.

A new World Bank report cites data from a forthcoming study: it shows the biomass of wild terrestrial mammals as being 2% of all mammals on earth. A widely quoted 2018 study had shown that proportion as 4% (see next post). The rest is us & our livestock. openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...

As of Thursday afternoon, there were 90 active wildfires in the territory, with seven of them receiving a full response.

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is. Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

This is all very well, but - even for current atmospheric CO2 levels - we are committed to a return at least to the Pliocene, and probably the Miocene period - 15 million years back If we refuse to face this, and act accordingly to adapt, it will be beyond grim www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Turbocharging wildfire isn’t the only way humans are draining carbon from Canada’s managed forest into the atmosphere. Logging still remains the largest source. But surging wildfires are starting to rival the impact from logging.

The deeper problem is scale. Both projections assume total energy use keeps rising, which means a larger human footprint: more extraction, more waste, more pressure on ecosystems. Even if the mix shifts slightly toward non-fossil sources, the overall scale drives ecological overshoot.

Fifty-two wildfires have been put out and more than 160,000 hectares burned, according to the Yukon government's online wildfire website.

On the broader western landscape, it’s an effect that’s largely been lost. Although there are a few exceptions and efforts to grow more free-roaming herds, bison are generally not allowed to behave like wildlife in the modern world.

From pollination and nutrient cycles to being the base of food webs for countless other animals, the loss of insects has cascading effects beyond what we could imagine. Oliver outlines the human activity that is driving the worst of these trends.

Harvest time north of 60. I grow 7 varieties of haskap berries, 3 black currants, 3 rapsberries, saskatoon, gooseberries, red currants and seabuckthorn. The hot and sunny weather makes the berries sweet and juicy. It is 7 to 10 C degrees warmer than average.

How do we feel about a story on Yukon River chinook decline that doesn’t mention pollock industry bycatch as one potential contributor? www.science.org/content/arti...

“There’s just so much energy consumption in the world. I’m up here hauling all my water to soak my hides. We don’t need all of this gas. What I need is for my hides to be soft, and my caribou herds to be healthy, and my freezer to be full.”