At that meeting, Indigenous guardians — who steward and monitor their territories — called for a national guardians network, stable funding and for the role of guardians to be established as a profession in Canada. // via @AinsCruickshank bit.ly/46JpwRw

The Baltic Sea, it turns out, was a nearly ideal crime scene. Its floor is latticed with telecommunication cables and pipes that are not closely monitored. Ships can easily hide by turning off their tracking transponders. // via Rebecca R. Ruiz nyti.ms/46UEl3Y

Already, the amount of acreage burned by this point in the year has eclipsed previous years, standing at roughly 220% higher than the 10-year average. // via Gabrielle Canon bit.ly/4gPHYg1

Despite the importance of reliable water availability, the authors noted, “most macro-economic assessments of the costs of climate change have found precipitation changes to affect economic growth rates insignificantly.” // via @Dana1981 bit.ly/4gY4Nyc

The Indonesian government’s strategy to minimize the marine impacts of building a new capital city on the island of Borneo is severely lacking, researchers and activists say. // via Basten Gokkon news.mongabay.com/2022/10/mangro…

Power-sector reductions are particularly important for achieving the 2030 goals. When Rhodium modeled how to meet Biden’s target, it found power plant regulations provided 250 million tons of emissions reductions in 2030. // via @BStorrow eenews.net/articles/hope-…

'The lack of water in the Yangtze river and dozens of tributaries, during what is supposed to be the wet season, had severely affected power supply in Sichuan—which draws 80% of its electricity from hydropower—and downstream regions.' // via @HelDavidson theguardian.com/world/2022/aug…

The report warns of climate-driven changes in habitats further shrinking the suitable range for already threatened and endemic bird populations particularly in the island’s wet and montane zones. // via Malaka Rodrigo news.mongabay.com/2023/01/update…

But [to reach] a deal, the WTO’s 164 member states put off dealing with certain subsidies where agreement proved elusive: those that contribute to building fleets with capacity to fish unsustainably and other forms of overfishing. // via Mongabay news.mongabay.com/2022/06/wto-fi…

Mongabay managed to visit multiple illegal mining sites, interview investors, and review their work contracts to better understand how the industry operates in secluded parts of the Amazon. // via Max Radwin news.mongabay.com/2022/11/shady-…

A growing body of research has found that global warming is increasing the likelihood of a monster storm that could inundate the Central Valley once again. // via Jake Bittle grist.org/extreme-weathe…

"The Climate Club’s goal will be to drive urgent, ambitious, and inclusive action in alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement." // via sophie hirsh 🌱 greenmatters.com/p/g7-climate-c…

The Indonesian government plans to reopen its capture fisheries sector to foreign investment, prompting concerns among marine observers about a return to the rampant illegal fishing practices that depleted the country’s fish stocks. // via @bgokkon news.mongabay.com/2022/01/foreig…

'Despite the stricter regulations, many automakers have been broadly receptive to phasing out internal combustion vehicles while increasing production of electric vehicles.' // via Budryk Zack thehill.com/policy/energy-…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is home to around 70% of the world’s cobalt resources, an estimated 40,000 of the 255,000 miners involved in the industry are children, some as young as 6 years old. // via @MollyTaft gizmodo.com/child-labor-co…

In the north, there are still large stretches of land unencumbered by industry. That means there’s still time to prevent caribou populations from reaching the crisis levels of their neighbours to the south. // via @AinsCruickshank thenarwhal.ca/northern-mount…

Whales exert strong effects on the carbon cycle. They do so by storing carbon more effectively than smaller animals, as well as by “ingesting extreme quantities of prey” and generating large amounts of waste, the researchers noted. // via @SharonUdasin thehill.com/policy/equilib…

Indonesia is in the process of revising that timber legality system by adding sustainability components such as geolocation so that its timbers could still be exported to the EU without much due diligence at European ports. // via @Hans_Nich news.mongabay.com/2022/11/with-n…

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Research shows that 30 percent is the lower limit for maintaining the functionality of ecosystems: Species such as leopards or tuna need large spaces in which they can move freely. // via @FritzHabekuss zeit.de/2022/53/hindou…