NEWS
New Discoveries About Human Origins
Editor's note: Humans have lived in balance with nature for millions of years. It was only in the last ten thousand years, with the advent of civilization, that humans have become unbalanced. If we continue on this course, we will reach our destination in less than a...
The World Is Farming More Seafood Than It Catches
Editor's note: The author asks if that is a good thing. The short answer is no. For the same reason, agriculture is bad for the land, aquaculture is bad for the ocean. It is because humans have overcaught wild fish and depleted their numbers that people have more and...
Sick Chimps Seek out Medicinal Plants to Heal Themselves
by Basten Gokkon on Mongabay 14 May 2024 A new study concludes that chimpanzees displaying a range of ailments seek out plants with known medicinal properties to treat those ailments. The finding is important because it’s a rare instance where a species is shown to...
ACTION
How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
Editor's note: Climate change is a symptom predicament of overshoot and is exploited by power elites to deflect from what is necessary, ending modern civilization. The slow death of nature started with civilization, it has exponentially sped up since the 1700s. The...
Combatting Violence Against Nicaragua’s Indigenous Communities
By Max Radwin 29 JUL 2024 / Mongabay Indigenous communities on Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean coast continue to suffer threats, kidnappings, torture and unlawful arrests while defending communal territory from illegal settlements and mining. Residents say they’re...
Building Environmental Activism In the Next Generation
Editor's note: Environmental activism will only play a role in the lives of young people if adults are great role models and walk the talk. As custodians, we need to take the young out into nature to help them gain an appreciation for wilderness. So that they will...
ANALYSIS
These Books Are Based On A Faulty Premise
ELISABETH ROBSON JUL 03, 2024 How a lack of imagination perpetuates this ecocidal way of life I’ve recently read three books, all of which I’m glad I read, and all of which have the same fatal flaw: they are all constructed around a faulty premise. A Poison Like No...
Coastal Restoration: Saving Sand
Editor's note: It's a coast - not a beach, we forget that when our society talks about going to the beach. A beach is for basking in the sun, getting a drink, and dabbling in the water. But a coast is far more than an entertainment place for humans, it's a habitat for...
Shark Awareness Day: Protecting Our Ocean’s Guardians
Editor's note: Sharks are beautiful, intelligent creatures, but they have been overexploited for decades. Because of their "high market value" industrial fisheries hunt sharks for their fins and other body parts. But it's difficult to control the protection of the sea...
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