May - 2020

Australia’s logging ‘madness’ fuels more fires, hastens ecosystem collapse

A thick, acrid scent of smoke marks the last summer season in Australia, which has become known as the “black summer.” Between June 2019...

Best-practice biodiversity safeguards for Belt and Road Initiative’s financiers

With thousands of projects being built along eight transcontinental corridors, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is driving the...

Logging Fueled Last Year's Catastrophic Megafires In Australia And Could Spark Repeats

From the Amazon to Siberia wildfires set much of the world ablaze in 2019, with some areas suffering the largest burns ever recorded....

Preventing pandemics, global warming and environmental degradation all at once

The Earth and its inhabitants face three global crises: the pandemic crisis, the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis. Unto themselves,...

Biodiversity offsetting requires lots of land

This guest blog by Laura Sonter, Jeremy Simmonds, James Watson and Martine Maron examines why avoiding impacts is a better solution to...

'We may not survive' - UN issues dire warning over climate change

Fire regimes are changing in both Australia and Brazil

Ambitious and holistic goals key to saving Earth’s biodiversity, study says

How Australia Can Rise From The Ashes

Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems

Minimising the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in an intact landscape under risk of.....

World’s protected areas lack connections, recent study finds

Study finds a Mexico-sized swath of intact land lost to human pressure

Planetary ‘safety net’ could halt wildlife loss and slow climate breakdown

Isolation of protected areas a major blind spot in habitat conservation