Climate Desk

Degrowth/Rewilding/Preservation Campaigns
Blue Planet Society
A volunteer pressure group campaigning to protect the world’s ocean.
Blue Carbon | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Understanding blue carbon
Blue-carbon ecosystems have a small global footprint, but they can bury many times more carbon per acre than even a tropical rainforest.
Blue Carbon Canada
Protecting People and Planet | Systems Change Lab
Systems Change Lab monitors, learns from and mobilizes action toward the transformational shifts needed to protect both people and the planet.
Fossil Free
100% Renewables for all. No new coal, oil or gas projects.
Raincoast | Investigate. Inform. Inspire.
We’re committed to rigorous, peer-reviewed science and community engagement. We’re committed to informed advocacy: investigate, inform, inspire.
When independent journalism exposes crimes against people and planet
In 2015, independent journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown and Sarawak Report uncovered the beginnings of what is now considered the world’s biggest money-launder...
HEATED Discourse: Media objectivity in an environmental crisis
Objectivity is a long-standing pillar of journalism, but its definition and application are loosely defined and humanly impossible to achieve, media experts ...
What is the global plastic treaty?
Problem Solved is a video series by Mongabay examining big, systemic, environmental issues and potential pathways to addressing them. You can watch all the e...
Indigenous economics offers alternative to Wall Street's financialization of nature
Putting a dollar amount on a single species, or entire ecosystems, is a contentious idea, but in 2023, the New York Stock Exchange proposed a new nature-base...
The rights of nature, legal personhood, and other new ways that the law can protect the planet
“Legal personhood” and laws regarding the “rights of nature” are being trialed in nations worldwide, but whether they lead to measurable conservation outcome...
“What If We Get It Right?” marine biologist & climate action author Ayana Elizabeth Johnson asks
Marine biologist and climate policy advocate Ayana Elizabeth Johnson joins this episode to discuss her latest book, What If We Get It Right? Visions of Clima...
Ecologist calls for a 'moral reckoning' of aquaculture's environmental impacts
Animal aquaculture, the farming of fish, has outpaced the amount of wild-caught fish by tens of millions of metric tons each year, bringing with it negative ...
Human rights and environmental justice are inextricable, says Arcus Foundation
Bryan Simmons, the vice president of communications for the Arcus Foundation, joins the Mongabay Newscast this week to share the philosophy behind the 25-yea...
How to use the law to save the planet | Against All Odds
Increasingly, legal courts have become the battleground in the fight for a climate-positive future. In the last two decades, 320 cases around the world have ...
‘Degrowth’ gains a foothold in Barcelona and support internationally
With the purchasing power of middle and working-class citizens shrinking as billionaires hoard ever more wealth, many people are searching for a new economic reality in line with their ecological values and planetary boundaries. “People are really hungry for solutions [and] really hungry to find alternatives,” says Alvaro Alvarez, a journalist and filmmaker of the […]
Rethinking carbon: The climate movement needs to be a human one, says Paul Hawken
Celebrated author, thinker and entrepreneur Paul Hawken joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss his new book, Carbon: The Book of Life, and argues that the jargon and fear-based terms broadly used by the climate movement alienate the broader public and fail to communicate the nuance and complexity of the larger ecological crises that humans are causing. […]
The world needs a new UN protocol to fight environmental crime (commentary)
In Brazil’s Yanomami Indigenous Territory and across other parts of the Amazon Basin, illegal gold mining has metastasized into a transnational criminal enterprise. What starts with illegal deforestation and mercury poisoning ends with laundered gold flowing into global supply chains. The trade finances organized crime, corrupt officials, and crosses borders via shell companies into Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela, before […]
Conservation and environmental science news - Mongabay
Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.
Capitalism Is Destroying Us - The New Climate Report
It's never good to hear the words "total societal collapse" from a scholarly paper, but that's exactly the phrasing used in the new UN climate report. We all...
World Resources Institute - Research for People & Planet
WRI is a global research organization working to improve people’s lives, protect nature and halt climate change.
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Indigenous voices at the intersection of health and the environment
At our AGM in November, Dr. Ojistoh Horn, Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada President and CAPE board member, presented on the inequitable burden of...
School for Climate Jusitce | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.
Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign
Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign
Show the Feds What's Possible
No one wants to struggle to survive. Fossil fuel dependence is making life more expensive, unsafe, and volatile for everyday people, all while billionaires profit from fuelling climate chaos. Everyone deserves a safe, affordable future. Cheap, clean renewable energy is the key to a better future. We need action now to ensure affordable energy, breathable air, and a liveable climate.
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