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From the archive | Having spent twenty years articulating the more-than-human predicament, Nate Hagens shares a timely first-pass framework for action and response organized around what to do now, which could be applied in various contexts and at multiple scales.

As geopolitical tensions drive up resource costs and disrupt supply, fertilizer prices may soar, endangering farming systems dependent on imports. Regenerative solutions, like green manure and community finance, are expanding across African countries, restoring local control over food systems.

In On Natural Capital, Partha Dasgupta argues that mainstream economics has failed to recognize the finite nature of the natural world. Blending ecology and economics, he sets out a framework to account for our impact on the environment.

A childhood moment on a Canadian farm shaped Bill Rees’s understanding of ecological limits, leading to the development of ecological footprint analysis and decades of warnings about global overshoot.

In his new book, the author argues that without a clearer view of the systems we’re embedded in, as well as our cultural and historical contexts, our responses to the polycrisis will continue to fall short.

A reflection on animal behaviour, evolutionary feedback systems and why living beings can appear both extraordinarily intelligent and strangely “dumb” depending on context.

A new study shows that toxic dust from Southern California’s shrinking Salton Sea impedes lung development in children, as water loss and industrial expansion reshape the region’s environment.

A landmark International Court of Justice advisory opinion has clarified that states have a duty to prevent climate harm, marking a shift toward enforceable climate accountability and strengthening the emerging framework of ecological and rights-based environmental law.

The drivers behind the polycrisis, including relentless extraction, extreme inequality, and environmental degradation, are often attributed to human nature, but evidence suggests they are products of historically conditioned systems.

As Indigenous knowledge gains recognition and environmental crises deepen, a growing movement argues that granting legal rights to nature can protect it from exploitation.

Solar power has enabled off-grid living and low-carbon energy, but its industrial supply chains and large-scale rollout come with environmental costs we cannot ignore.

The climate crisis demands urgency, not ideological uniformity. In an already fragmented movement, requiring adherence to specific positions on issues beyond climate action deepens division and opens space for anti-democratic influence.