Nature · Biodiversity Climate Change Water
More than Carbon Sticks
The concept that planting trees will help mitigate climate change by storing CO2 is too simplistic, ignoring the large effect that plants have on the water cycle. Careful restoration of native plant ecosystems can rebalance that cycle, further mitigating climate change while also reducing flood and drought.
Scientific American · Biodiversity Conservation Slow Water
To Revive a River, Restore Its Hidden Gut
Radical reconstruction in Seattle is bringing nearly dead urban streams
back to life
Scientific American · Biodiversity Science
The Meaning of Lichen
How a naturalist’s observations in the wilds of British Columbia inspired a scientist to discover hidden symbioses—overturning 150 years of accepted scientific wisdom.
bioGraphic · Biodiversity Conservation
Patience, Peace and Persian Leopards
Despite myriad threats, two Kurdish scientists in Iraq are fighting to create a peace park in the heart of the Middle East.
Greenpeace Report on P&G’s Palm Oil Sources Could Spur Industry Change
By calling out the consumer goods giant on its sourcing practices, the campaign group hopes that other corporations will start to clean up their supply chains.
Mom and Pop Forests Struggle to Make Sustainable Harvesting Pay
For family foresters, managing a wood lot means striking a balance between a living legacy and a complex business.
bioGraphic · Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Justice Food Indigenous Water
Hawaii’s Ancient Aquaculture Revival
In an ocean state that now imports half of its seafood, a determined group of activists is restoring the age-old aquaculture practices of Native Hawaiians.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Justice Policy
Laos’ Elephants Take to the Road to Save Their Forest Home
An elephant caravan draws attention to the illegal logging that threatens the country’s 900 remaining pachyderms.
TakePart · Biodiversity Environmental Justice Food Policy Water
Investors Are Grabbing a Japan-Size Chunk of the Developing World for Food and Water
Activists tracking these deals say rich countries are buying up land—93 million acres—and displacing local people and wildlife.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Policy
‘Killing Contests’ Target Pregnant Cownose Rays
Scientists fear the hunts will decimate the cownose ray before they can learn of its role in the marine ecosystem.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Justice Policy
Cambodian Activist Wins Goldman Prize for Exposing Illegal Logging
Leng Ouch has risked his life to go undercover and gather evidence of collusion between timber companies and government officials.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Oceans
An Earsplitting Threat Is Endangering the World’s Rarest Killer Whales
Noise pollution from ships imperils Southern Resident orcas that depend on sound to communicate and find food and mates.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Climate Change Oceans Policy
Designing Marine Protected Areas in a Changing Climate
How can vulnerable marine species be protected when climate change is a reality?
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Canada Has New Rules Governing Its Marine Protected Areas. Do They Go Far Enough?
Fisheries and Oceans Canada cites public backlash as one of the motivating factors for changing the rules governing marine protected areas.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Is Canada Taking Shortcuts to Hit Its Marine Protection Targets?
The government is counting fisheries closures as protected spaces in order to hit a 2020 target. Many scientists argue this is not meaningful conservation.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Proposed Amendment Could Actually Protect Marine Protected Areas
New legislation would give planned MPAs interim protection during the years-long approval process.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Canada’s New Marine (Less) Protected (Than It Could Have Been) Areas
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.
