Reconciliation & Sustainability

“They’re paying with their lives,” a human rights activist says about indigenous groups trying to protect the rainforest from mining and agribusiness.

Humans could burn every living thing on the planet and still not dent its oxygen supply.

Dairy farmers say that regenerative farming has brought back the bees and increased profits.

Maps and images based on satellite data provide clues to how the fires started.

A new study from the World Bank and UN finds we’ll need ways to boost yields faster than ever before to prevent agricultural emissions from soaring.

So far Hawaiians have managed to stop all efforts to begin construction through legal challenges and civil disobedience. Mauna Kea , also known as Mauna a Wakea

Áísínai’pi, home to the highest concentration of rock carvings and paintings on the Great Plains of North America, was designated as Alberta’s first World Heritage site in 25 years because of the Blackfoot stories that surround it

Researchers have identified exactly where we can plant a certain amount of trees in order to stop the climate crisis in its tracks.

Indigenous Peoples have been protecting biodiversity on Earth for thousands of years. Yet their rights are increasingly being eroded and they face multiple thre

NASA has some good news, the world is a greener place today than it was 20 years ago. What prompted the change? Well, it appears China and India can take the majority of the credit.

All over the world today, Indigenous peoples are confronting the destructive practices of industry.

Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake

Scientists once ridiculed the idea of a living planet. Not anymore.

From September 2018: Ambitious dreams have now become a reality as the Ocean Cleanup deploys its $20 million system designed to clean up the 1.8 trillion pieces of trash floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The abundant winter weather has also resulted in the state's second wildflower super bloom in just a few short years.

We need to throw the kitchen sink at this with a total rethink of our relationship to ownership, work and capital, says economics writer Phil McDuff

From Alaska to Australia, scientists are turning to the knowledge of traditional people for a deeper understanding of the natural world. What they are learning is helping them discover more about everything from melting Arctic ice, to protecting fish stocks, to controlling wildfires.

A groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published today in the journal Environmental Research found that switching to an organic diet significantly reduced

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"A forest is much more than what you see," says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery -- trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes.

Most of us wish we could eat with the confidence that everything on our plate has a story we can feel good about, a story about taking care of both people and the environment. In the food system (as elsewhere) these twin issues, justice and sustainability, have often been talked about as if they wer

BRAZIL’S indigenous population issued an urgent appeal for international solidarity today to avert a genocide as they try to assert their social and cultural rights.Community leaders warned that far-right racists have stepped up attacks on indigenous groups following the election of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has claimed that Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement and other minority rights organisations are “terrorists.”

Who has a scythe sharp enough to fell the stalks of capitalism today? It’s not Marx, Lenin and Mao

If you’ve decided to go vegan because you think it’s better for the planet, that might be true—but only to an extent.

Advocates for the embattled Wet'suwet'en people are gathered in full force at Nathan Phillips Square today to express support for the First Nation's …

The Majorville Medicine Wheel, a sacred First Nations site that has been left largely intact in Alberta, is one of the oldest man-made structures you can visit in C…

The WWF’s report avoids the C-word – here’s why that matters.