"If we’re willing to welcome it, to not try to outrun it, push it away, numb it out, or distract ourselves from it, our grief is a compass towards what matters most to us, what we love, the world we long for." kiraw.substack.com/p/the-world-...

Ghosts of the Little Smoky 🦌 #caribou kiraw.substack.com/p/ghosts-of-...

We’d be wise to heed the signals the caribou—and the land—are sending us, lest these creatures who have roamed Earth for over a million years, surviving the Ice Age, the assaults of colonization and over a century of industrial extraction, soon vanish into ghosts kiraw.substack.com/p/ghosts-of-...

Some of my most cherished memories involve cities, but oh do I feel this: "Chronic stress and many modern health issues are the result of an evolutionary mismatch between our primarily nature-adapted biology and the industrialized environments we now inhabit." phys.org/news/2025-11...

“And its song, my freight.” ‘Prayer for When I’m Lost’ by Patrick Rosal, in Orion’s Autumn 2025 issue orionmagazine.org/article/pray...

"There is so much we can do when our hearts can’t take it anymore." What a wonderful, rich conversation between @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and @julianhoffman.bsky.social

'Though the specificities of colonization are unique to each location, what is consistent about colonialism is that it “has operated and continues to operate through the disruption and re-ordering of relations between humans, land and lively beings.”' kiraw.substack.com/p/the-gaze-o...

Bird lovers and bird-friendly people: please join me in helping support birders of Gaza and their families as they try to survive genocide and ethnic cleansing, while still encouraging their love for birding. birdersofpalestine.com

"If this level of horror can be written about, recorded, Tweeted, livestreamed, and broadcast by journalists in Gaza, only to be ignored by politicians and journalists in the West, then what is the point of journalism?" lithub.com/how-do-we-te...

I wrote about the Prespa lakes region in northern Greece for @theguardian.com today. At the crossroads of three countries and my home for the past quarter of a century, it's a place that continues to surprise me with its wild beauty and rich human cultures. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

One year after wildfire devastated Jasper, Canada, a reflection on one of the defining emotions of our time: solastalgia. kiraw.substack.com/p/when-ashes...

Ever since I first visited, I’d felt haunted by how somewhere so precious, so rich in life, could be so recklessly destroyed. I’d returned because I wanted to see the landscape when it was flooded. To imagine how Doñana was, and maybe still could be, in all its lush, watery, bird-rich glory.

"Stopping threats is not enough. As many as 250-350 species will require complementary conservation measures … to survive the next century.”

Essential piece by the great Suzy Hansen. "A society still conducting this kind of manmade technological violence after many decades of knowing exactly the suffering it causes to innocent people must believe in these weapons much more than in life itself." nymag.com/intelligence...

Looking forward to Sadiah Qureshi's new book Vanished on how extinction is entangled with race, empire and colonialism. "Paying attention to the life around us and recalibrating how we value that life is just as powerful as having more scientific research”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#CanadaIsBurning, and it won't be solved by expanding oil and gas. @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social #cdnppli

Must watch, like the must read. @johnvaillant.bsky.social has straight answers to our Qs. Do we want it any other way? We and our planet deserve this kind of respect. @livewirecalgary.bsky.social @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAL0...

“One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night. It is too devastating to see how few there are.” On climate change and a shifting world: for insects, for birds, for bats, for us. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The boreal zone of Canada is being transformed by fire faster than any other forested region on earth. The Amazon is not far behind. "We are the world, and the world is on fire..."

In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing. Natela Grigalashvili photographed one pastoral nomadic community over 10 years to explore how people adapt to changing circumstances and create new meaning in today’s world: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Western governments have made it clear that they do not care about human rights and the rule of law when it comes to people of colour, the global majority. They spit on humanity. 500 years on from the beginning of the European colonial project and they have hardly changed in this regard.

"The decision marks a shift away from science-based policymaking in the new EU mandate, setting a worrying trend that can reach far beyond the wolf." www.birdlife.org/news/2025/05...

I've started a Substack, Amor Mundi, where I'll be writing about love of the world through themes like awe, beauty, courage, coexistence and grief—often with a connecting thread to the natural world. Here's my first essay: kiraw.substack.com/p/when-the-w...

For the birds—and the people who endeavor to save them, including @julianhoffman.bsky.social, my story for the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...

Great to see so many wonderful winners of this year's Goldman Prize for grassroots environmental action, including Olsi Nika and Besjana Guri for their incredible efforts to protect the free-flowing Vjosa River in Albania from the threat of hydro-electric dams. news.mongabay.com/2025/04/meet...

It takes an almost impressive level of cognitive malfunction to think of Grozny, Sarajevo, Aleppo, and Mariupol as war crimes while considering this legitimate warfare.

What ‘the world’s loneliest whale’ may be telling us about climate change. grist.org/oceans/what-... #Whales #Ocean #Climate #Seas

🚨 BREAKING: Turtle-dove hunting season reopens! The EU Commission just gave the green light for EU countries to resume the hunt for European Turtle-doves, ending a 3-year pause. This is reckless, short-sighted and will take this bird back to the brink. More info: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04...

This young man had more dignity and integrity in his short career than the thousands of comfortable Western journalists who have remained silent as their governments have armed and funded a genocide.

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Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been assaulted & injured by settlers at his home in the West Bank & arrested by the IDF. No trace of him since. The vengeance is clear. Do not let Hamdan disappear. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

From Greenland

🐺 Today, the Bern Convention's decision to weaken #wolf protection officially enters into force. Wolves in Europe are still far from a favourable conservation status: this move threatens their fragile recovery instead of promoting true coexistence and listening to science. #SavetheWolf

Given that whales have been around far longer than humans it might be more accurate to say that human languages have patterns that resemble humpback whale songs. www.newscientist.com/article/2467...

I heard from someone who works closely with a Canadian premier that during a trip to the US, Republican senators were pulling them aside and saying, we know it sounds crazy, but yes, he's dead serious about the annexation stuff.

12. Every freedom, every improvement we have ever gained has been achieved through struggle. Our rights have arisen through previously powerless people combining to develop networks of community power. Democratic power is never given. It has to be taken.

It's instructive to see which media orgs have been willing to stand up against this seizure of power, and which have chosen to lie down. This is history in the making, and these choices will be recorded.

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

"Reality does not require human belief in order to be real." -- Fire Weather, ch. 10.

One of The Economist's most-read articles this week: why Canada should join the EU. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Lucy Grossmith, Mumurations over Fields

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

“There’s more water carried along the roads in lorries than runs in our streams.” How has it come to this: that private companies are licensed to abstract water from aquifers below parched regions, then sell it back in bottles to those who live & struggle there? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"As the planet hurtles towards environmental & societal breakdown, it is becoming ever more evident that modernity was founded on a profoundly mistaken understanding of the world, and that the elevation of humans above all other species, and indeed the Earth itself, has had disastrous consequences"

"What is distinctive about our time is that its monsters consist not only of political extremists of all kinds, but also of weather events that could not have been conceived of in Gramsci’s lifetime: supercharged storms, megadroughts, catastrophic rain-bombs and the like."

One of the many resonant and vital highlights of @amitav.bsky.social's Erasmus Prize acceptance speech. erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...

"I think the pathway to living in a world of gifts is quite simply, paying attention to the earth, whether as water or a peach or a bowl of cereal or a flock of geese in the sky. It’s an act of resistance to reclaim your attention from what the market wants of you" orionmagazine.org/article/gift...

"It’s time we realise we do not only walk on this Earth to make a living, but to make a contribution towards the future"