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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 7h

$5.9bn = the amount spent annually on protecting and restoring forests

$409bn = the amount of subsidies going to agriculture industries destroying forests

Anyone else see the problem here?

The Guardian: "'Dismal' health of world's forests is threat to humanity, report warns. Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus. Jonathan Watts, 14th Oct."

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 13h

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.

Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 18h

Asia's elephants face extinction as habitats vanish
->Daily Sabah | #ecosystem #habitat #wildlife #extinction #elephant | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Asia's elephants face extinction as habitats vanish

Once rulers of Asia’s vast forests, Asian elephants now struggle to survive as shrinking habitats and rising human conflict push them closer to extinction. "We believe the current estimate is around 50,000 - less than 50,000 individuals left in the...

www.dailysabah.com

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 1d

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)

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Short comment on 'carbon trading' climateuncensored.com/what-role-fo...

Paris 1.5°C needs >20% cuts in global emissions every year - starting now!
For Paris 2°C, it’s ~8%.
Which country/company/institution can exceed these rates?
Only those that do have any real “emission space” for carbon trading.

What role for carbon trading? - Climate Uncensored

I was recently contacted by a senior civil servant who asked me to provide a short comment on the concept of emissions trading schemes in general, and on the

climateuncensored.com

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 1d

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

Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 2d

IUCN’s new Guidelines for Rewilding mark a global milestone, recognising #rewilding as a core pathway for nature recovery and sustainable development.

IUCN launches Global Guidelines for Rewilding - a Paradigm Shift in Global Conservation | The Global Rewilding Alliance

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released its groundbreaking “Guidelines for Rewilding”, a landmark document offering guidance for implementing rewilding projects…

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 2d

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...

Regional map of the Canadian Arctic showing September 2025 temperature anomalies. Most areas are warmer than average northeast of Hudson Bay. Anomalies are calculated to a 1981-2010 baseline with red being warmer than average, and blue being colder than average.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Jack 🦫 @jackhumphrey.com · 5d

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.

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 5d

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 Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 6d

The Porcupine caribou herd travels more than 4,000 kilometres across the Arctic each year. But its migration is imperilled by climate change and oil and gas expansion. Scientists are rushing to count the animals amid the threat. @trinamoyles.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/counting-por...

The biologists racing to count Porcupine caribou | The Narwhal

Scientists in Yukon and Alaska are tracking the size of the Porcupine caribou herd. It’s urgent work: the animals face environmental and political threats

thenarwhal.ca

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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Hunter Gatherers and the Crisis of Civilization

Stone Age Economics initiated a lively debate about the quality of hunter-gatherer life that has now lasted fifty years. Since the initial debates a large body of ethnographic evidence, and modern tec

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 8d

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"

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Cara Ocobock @caraocobock.bsky.social · 13d

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"

Neandertal Cold Adaptation: Technological, Anatomical, and Physiological Responses to Cold Stress in One of Our Closest Fossil Relatives

Neandertals occupied western Eurasia for over 100 000 years, repeatedly enduring climates that ranged from seasonally cold to glacial. This paper reexamines the question of Neandertal cold adaptation...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 19d

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.

8 Billion Will Die!

Our 8-billion-strong “cloud” is grossly unsustainable, so that it will collapse via its own downpour if not allowed to shrink. It’s possible to do so by natural attrition and generational transformati...

www.resilience.org

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 21d

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.

Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 21d

What are you willing to lose? #biodiversityloss #Canada #TheEndOfNature #SilentSpring #OurCivilizationKills

wwf.ca/media-releas...

The starkest picture of wildlife loss in Canada to date: WWF’s new Living Planet Report Canada - WWF.CA

WWFs Living Planet Report Canada (LPRC) 2025: Wildlife at Home reveals the most severe average decline in the size of monitored wildlife populations to date.

wwf.ca

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 21d

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.

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 21d

Andrew Nikiforuk: Unfortunately, these claims that nuclear power can provide cheap energy security or reverse the persistent failure of national and global policies to reduce CO2 emissions is an illusion. #abpoli #canpoli

The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked | The Tyee

Politicians who push small reactors raise false hopes that splitting atoms can make a real dent in the climate crisis.

thetyee.ca

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Melissa Sevigny @melissasevigny.bsky.social · 22d

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...

There Is No Line: An Interview with Elspeth Hay - Terrain.org

There Is No Line: Cara Benson interviews Elspeth Hay, author of Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food.

www.terrain.org

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 25d

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

In an unprecedented warning, leading climate think-tank says Canada won't meet 2030 climate target | CBC News

Years of progress on bringing Canada’s carbon emissions down have stalled, and future progress looks increasingly fragile, according to an early 2024 emissions estimate from the Canadian Climate Insti...

www.cbc.ca

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 26d

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.

World Resources Institute @worldresources.bsky.social · Sep 12

♻️Transitioning to a circular economy — one built on reducing, reusing and recycling — can reduce environmental pressures while building a more resilient, efficient economic system.

👉 Here are 9 key insights: bit.ly/4pjGfTS #SystemsChangeLab

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 27d

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...

IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C - Carbon Brief

The world would not need to invest in new oil and gas projects if demand for the fuels fell in line with the 1.5C limit on global warming, says the IEA

www.carbonbrief.org

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · Sep 12

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.

Allowing Space for Nature: Rewilding to Heal the Earth

The term “rewilding” often elicits strong emotions, especially as presented in the media. Thus, anger is provoked that farmers will be forced to waste precious cropland, letting it return to the wild,...

www.sciepublish.com

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sounds good to me.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Sep 8

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.

To Change Everything, an anarchist appeal

The case for complete self-determination—a guide for the furious, the curious, and the pure of heart

tochangeeverything.com

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · Sep 5

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...

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

Yukon extends season for wildfire crews amid warm, dry weather | CBC News

Yukon is keeping some of its wildfire crews on contract for at least another week, as parts of the territory deal with a late-summer heat wave and possible strong winds.

www.cbc.ca