Adjusting the intensity of farming can help address climate change

A productive but moderate range of farming intensity is ideal for preserving the soil, its carbon content and biodiversity. (Unsplash/Red Zeppelin) We have little chance of...

China’s lucrative orchid industry is a test for the nation’s commitment to conservation

China is well known for its medicinal use of wild plants, a tradition that dates back thousands of years. These traditional Chinese medicines include many wild...

Five options for restoring global biodiversity after the UN agreement

To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada, promising to...

What are mud volcanoes?

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam....

Four steps to jump-start Canadian climate policy

December 19, 2022 The outcome of the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) was both promising and disappointing. Developing countries celebrated an agreement to build...

Clearer rules on reporting companies’ climate risks could soon put us on a path to decarbonising corporate Australia

Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse

Frida Lannerstrom/Unsplash, CC BY Climate change is one of the main drivers of species loss globally. We know more plants and animals will die as heatwaves,...

COP15: A call to action for investors to help us meet vital biodiversity goals

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, opened the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Montréal with a stark message: “Without nature, we are nothing. Nature is...

The two best ways to help oil and gas workers exit the sector

December 15, 2022 In 2020, Canada’s oil and gas sector contributed more than one-quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions produced by the country. The sector, however,...

1.5°C: where the target came from – and why we’re losing sight of its importance

The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s, when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than...