Sustainability & Degrowth

To free up land for biodiversity conservation while satisfying growing food demand, techno-optimist narratives suggest indefinitely increasing

Ottawa is increasingly isolated internationally in its fervour to achieve net zero emissions. Read more.

Why “Eco-friendly” bulbs are failing consumers and the environment, and what to do about it

Access to fossil fuels allowed humanity to overshoot Earth’s biophysical limits. The crises we now face are all symptoms of this overshoot, and the only fix is to cut our demands on the biosphere.

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Important ocean currents that redistribute heat, cold, and precipitation between the tropics and the northernmost parts of the Atlantic region will shut down around the year 2060 if current greenhouse gas emissions persist. This is the conclusion based on new calculations from the University of Cope

Weather is the story of Lizzie, a woman who goes down the climate doom rabbit hole after working on a climate change podcast.

The Canadian federal law regulating toxic substances has been updated for the first time in more than two decades

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the Department of Agriculture will invest $300 million through President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda to improve measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in climate-smart agriculture and forestry.

Heat waves like those in Texas and Europe are likely to get worse on the whole, not better.

Why are we at Media Lens utterly terrified by climate collapse while other people we know are mildly concerned, blithely indifferent or cockily

The long overdue modernization of Canada’s Environmental Protection Act shows what we can accomplish when we work together.

A holistic approach to the economy is necessary to avoid social, environmental and economic collapse, according to a new report by the Capital Institute

Renewable power on course to shatter more records as countries around the world speed up deployment - News from the International Energy Agency

The vast majority of the world’s biggest companies have done almost nothing in the past five years to cut their planet-heating pollution enough to avoid catastrophic climate change.

The venture-backed startup believes kelp could be a powerful tool to combat climate change. But some scientists fear the ecological risks on large scales.

Some of the impacts of climate change are already here today. But the worst can still be avoided. Our future is in our hands.

Current and future risks from climate change are far worse than previously estimated, but urgent action is still possible to “secure a liveable future for

FASTER THAN EXPECTED …why most climate scientists can’t tell the truth (in public) One of the clichés of climate change reporting is climate scientists claiming to be ‘surprised’ …

Prestigious law institute publishes EU-specific model law on ecocide

Early modelling suggests the world’s climate could shift to an El Niño pattern towards the end of 2023, which is likely to increase the global average temperature

Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet.

Few people actually believe these climate change myths, but the myths and disinformation persist. One expert calls them "zombie arguments."

Here's how we're using the power of the law to save wildlife and nature