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World carbon pollution nearly back to 2019 pre-pandemic levels
The dramatic drop in carbon dioxide emissions from the pandemic lockdown has pretty much disappeared in a puff of coal-fired smoke, much of it from China, a new scientific study found.
New maps show parts of Vancouver and Montreal underwater as climate change worsens
Low-lying areas of major cities like Vancouver and Montreal could become inundated with floods in the next 80 years under various climate change scenarios, suggests a floodplains map developed by a Western University researcher.
"Major cities really matter": Mayors from cities across the world demand climate action
On a train hurtling toward Glasgow, the mayors of Seattle and Freetown, Sierra Leone, greeted each other like long lost sisters, bonded by years of Zoom calls and collaboration in the fight against climate change.
Huge majority of federal public servants have taken the mandatory jab
Treasury Board President Mona Fortier says 95.3 per cent of federal public servants have indicated they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Are lab-grown chicken nuggets actually more sustainable?
Last year, a restaurant in Singapore made headlines when it became the first place in the world to serve lab-grown meat. With meat and dairy responsible for roughly a sixth of global emissions, the U.S. company behind the pricey plates of artificial chicken nuggets, Eat Just, branded them "a revolutionary step towards solving climate change."
Women hardest hit and least heard, delegates from Global South tell COP26
The Global North is largely responsible for the climate crisis, but the Global South weathers the worst impacts and is left to come up with solutions, say climate justice and human rights activists attending COP26 in Glasgow.
Canada and U.S. to invest heavily in ‘climate-smart’ agriculture
On Tuesday, Canada backed a controversial initiative aimed at boosting countries' support for high-tech farming methods designed to reduce emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change on farms and food.
Report ranks Canadian fossil fuel firms’ climate plans at the ‘bottom of the pack’
The breakdown found the producers’ plans are set to accelerate the climate crises and hinder the Paris Agreement goal of keeping warming to below 1.5 C.
Youth activists ask media to tell more of the climate story
Young climate activists want the media to do a better job explaining the causes and consequences of climate change to students, and to listen to them even when they are not skipping school to demand climate action.
US oil executives subpoenaed to turn over internal documents on global warming
The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, to top executives of ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil giants, charging that the companies have not turned over documents needed by the committee to investigate allegations that the oil industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global warming.
PM says Indigenous talks may allow flags to be lowered on Remembrance Day
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is confident a "solution" will be reached to allow Canada to honour its war dead on Remembrance Day by lowering the flag to half-mast.
Villages in Bangladesh carry the brutal cost of climate change
With each tide, Abdus Satter watches the sea erode a little more of his life.
Liberals urged to reshape supply chains for economic recovery amid trade bottlenecks
The situation is leading to calls on the federal government to use the current snarl in global supply chains to become more active in rethinking and reshaping the country's reliance on foreign suppliers.
B.C. gives First Nations one month to decide on large swath of old-growth logging deferrals
The provincial government announced Tuesday that an independent panel of scientific experts has mapped priority areas and it's asking First Nations to decide within 30 days whether they support the deferrals or require further discussion.