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When it comes to ending climate change, international climate negotiations have typically focused on ending the world's reliance on fossil fuels. Food — responsible for about a third of the world's emissions and vulnerable to a chaotic climate —has largely flown under the radar. 

Student Energy’s Global Youth Energy Outlook got more than 40,000 young people from 129 countries to share their views on the transition to clean energy. The vast majority want it to happen much faster than their governments and industry are currently moving.

Inuit young people have a tough path to traverse as they seek an active and meaningful role in the building of climate resilience in the far north of the planet, where actions taken elsewhere are having a profound impact on both geography and cultural life.

Over 100 cities, towns, and other regional governments worldwide informally launched a pledge Wednesday to put food at the heart of their climate plans — even as their national counterparts have failed to do the same. 

Premier Jason Kenney is rejecting accusations that he is blaming the province's chief medical officer of health for Alberta’s failures in the handling of the fourth wave of COVID-19.

In June, Birmingham, U.K., did what few other cities outside London have had the temerity to do and imposed a fee on high-polluting vehicles entering certain city zones.

Canada’s National Observer asked Jonathan Wilkinson how he will approach his new role as natural resources minister after serving as environment and climate change minister from 2019 to 2021.

Eric Garcetti's office announced a positive test result in a tweet, adding only: “He is feeling good and isolating in his hotel room. He is fully vaccinated.”

The groups behind the push say the federal government's current promise of ending exports by 2030 isn't soon enough to keep global warming below 1.5 C.

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero say it wants to align capital with a net-zero world. Or as its leader Mark Carney describes it, the new “plumbing” for the world’s financial system to ensure green investments flow.

The chief executive of one of Canada's major oilsands producers said he's not opposed to a federal cap on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector, as long as the government realizes large-scale emissions reductions will take years to achieve.

Silflower was among native plants that blanketed the vast North American prairie until settlers developed farms and cities. Nowadays confined largely to roadsides and ditches, the long-stemmed cousin of the sunflower may be poised for a comeback, thanks to solar energy.

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.

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.

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.