The Internet is Evil, Part 3: The most extreme and oppressive weapon of state intrusion human history has ever seen.

In 2025, Canada's total fertility rate (TFR) was unchanged at 1.26 children per woman. It was identical to the all-time low observed in 2024.

The proposed Casino mine promises billions of dollars for the territory's economy from mining two critical minerals — but the project is still years away from actually mining them.

The Anthropocene Experiment The fossil record is often invoked as consolation. Earth has survived worse. It has endured asteroid strikes, continents drowned beneath lava, oceans robbed of oxygen, a…

For more than a decade, it was thought that the world's most plastic-polluted birds couldn't get any more contaminated by the man-made material. But then, from 2023–2026, the record was broken every s...

The Machinery of Overshoot The real question is not whether modern civilization will endure in its present form. It will not. The question is whether we will recognize the limits that govern us soo…

An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.

The Species That Cannot Stop A commenter calling himself Mistah Charley recommended Warren M. Hern’s Homo Ecophagus after reading one of my essays on collapse. In his comment, he mentioned Tom Murp…

The Brooks Range is one of Earth’s largest roadless areas. In 2013, the State of Alaska proposed building a 225-mile industrial access road to facilitate the construction of an open-copper pit mine ne...

New research suggests Great Lake sturgeon may live more than 400 years — far longer than previously thought. The discovery is forcing scientists to rethink the already-generations-long effort to bring...

Researchers used DNA and isotope analysis to figure out how the large cats survived in the far north.

In this immersive episode, join Alex on a walk through an ancient forest as you explore what it means to live life as a forager. It’s a journey through the garden of eden grocery story, a wrestling wi...

Few among us question actions done “in the name of science” when said actions are carried out by credible groups or individuals. It goes without saying that the acquisition and expansion of knowledge is highly valued. As long as the pursuit is not directly harmful to people, it generally gets a pass. But one level deeper, what is science itself done in the name of?

In the circumstances, humane, socially just Roadmaps that show the world community theoretical alternatives, however brilliantly conceived, are destined merely to reveal inviting roads that cannot be ...

Canada’s calm, low-fire summers are gone, cooked away by unchecked fossil fuel burning. Here’s what we’ve replaced them with and where we are headed if we don’t stop feeding the fire weather beast.

Most urban sustainability efforts focus on aspects of climate change and emissions reductions mostly involving technological fixes. These techno-fixes involv...

Part two: Prospects for—and barriers to—moving on

A new rapid analysis has found that human-induced climate change has made wildfire in the Northwest Territories and Ontario about twice as likely to occur, and it warns that the world must step away f...

Some creatures that ‘survived all of Earth’s mass extinctions’ might not make it if we go ahead.

I have a confession: I grimace whenever I see images of wildlife crossings over multi-lane motorways. The structure enables animals to avoid a deadly physical b