The waters of an ancient lake once pooled in this basin in southwestern China. Now haze and air pollution do the same.

Subsistence communities, those who live off the forest and lead largely sustainable lifestyles, can actually become drivers of forest loss and degradation under certain circumstances, according to a new study. This happens when external changes put pressure on their traditional lifestyles. This could be anything from market demands that shift agriculture practices to increased populations […]

As a group of plants, weeds are unloved by some people. However, this dislike is not universal. Weeds are colonizing, pioneering plants, with special botanical and ecological attributes that allow them to succeed in ‘disturbed’ habitats. Weedy species are a critical component of Mother Earth’s rich biodiversity. As frugal, thrifty and simple beings, which never […]

BANGKOK – A few dawns into 2022, authorities raided a shophouse in the heart of Thailand’s capital city. Officers from the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division of the Royal Thai Police and the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources discovered the shop was breeding coral and selling it on Facebook for as little as $4 […]

Editor's note: Welcome to Canary Media’s first cartoon! We’re delighted to be partnering with the Climatoonist on a series of cartoons that capture the hopes, frustrations and absurdities of working on the front lines of the energy transition. You can read all about the Climatoonist and see past cartoons in a profile…

JBS’s sustainability-linked bonds may be audited after Mighty Earth filed a complaint against the company in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, on Jan. 17. According to the NGO, a global advocacy organization, the world’s biggest meat company had used “misleading and fraudulent” information to persuade investors to buy debt bonds attached to its […]

More homes are burning in wildfires in nearly every Western state. The reason? Humans.