From the Bank of England to the People’s Bank of China, monetary authorities of the world’s largest economies are gauging how climate change could rock the financial system. Though long committed to being “market neutral,” some are even starting to push greener investments. Climate change is rattling the world’s central bankers. With unprecedented heat and... Continue Reading →
From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds. In 1908 the U.S. government seized some 18,000 acres of land from... Continue Reading →
How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature
Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests on Earth. Now, scientists see the beginnings of a more sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora — a trend that will intensify if greenhouse gas emissions are not reined in. Some 56 million years ago, just after the Paleocene epoch... Continue Reading →