TakePart · Climate Change Environmental Justice Science
Earth’s increasingly volatile weather conditions have been linked to numerous global crises, from terrorism to child marriage.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Policy
Scientists fear the hunts will decimate the cownose ray before they can learn of its role in the marine ecosystem.
Hakai magazine · Environmental Justice Food Indigenous Oceans Policy
First Nations’ occupations of fish farms are rooted in a deeper conversation about Indigenous land rights.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Justice Policy
Leng Ouch has risked his life to go undercover and gather evidence of collusion between timber companies and government officials.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Oceans
Noise pollution from ships imperils Southern Resident orcas that depend on sound to communicate and find food and mates.
Hakai magazine · Adaptation Climate Change Environmental Justice Food Indigenous Science
Northwestern tribes and the University of Washington climate group have joined forces to help protect salmon, roots, trees, and other important resources.
TakePart · Energy Renewable Energy
Half of Africa’s population lacks access to electricity, but microgrids powered by solar energy are lighting the way to energy independence.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Climate Change Oceans Policy
How can vulnerable marine species be protected when climate change is a reality?
Ensia · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Groundwater recharge is the latest wave in water security – though challenges remain.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Fisheries and Oceans Canada cites public backlash as one of the motivating factors for changing the rules governing marine protected areas.
Ensia · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Solutions to floods, droughts, and pollution that look upstream, downstream and everywhere in between save dollars and make sense.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
The government is counting fisheries closures as protected spaces in order to hit a 2020 target. Many scientists argue this is not meaningful conservation.
Ensia · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising way urban areas are dealing with water woes
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
New legislation would give planned MPAs interim protection during the years-long approval process.
California drought underscores the need to improve how the state – and the rest of us – divvy up a resource in demand.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
A string of concessions to the oil and gas and fishing industries has severely weakened the protective value of Canada’s largest planned marine protected area.
Conservation and recycling can reduce the need for massive municipal water infrastructure.
Hakai magazine · Environmental Justice Food Oceans
The country is putting restrictions on its domestic fishing fleet, but its distant water fleet has been growing to compensate.
Ensia · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
With climate change bringing more intense storms, urban areas are looking for better ways to manage runoff.
China’s fishers indiscriminately target predators as well as prey, putting different pressures on the ecosystem.