Opinion

The rise of COVID-19 has resulted in an increase in global poverty for the first time in years.

Out of the B.C. provincial election may come a greener, younger, more climate-savvy legislative body. It's a long shot, but better than none at all.

The province's new plan for old-growth forest management must also be done in partnership with Indigenous governments, says Jens Wieting.

The story of the ancient yellow cedar in B.C.'s Dakota Valley illustrates the shortcomings of the province's response.

We listen. We watch. We remember.

Investors should be making data-informed decisions, and consistent and reliable climate-related data is imperative to do so. However, Julie Segal writes, based on traditional risk and reward principles, pricing in physical risks imposes a surcharge for those most liable to climate damage.

Ahead of your annual Thanksgiving tête-à-tête with your right-wing uncle, Matthew Klippenstein reads Bjorn Lomborg’s 'False Alarm' so you don’t have to.

The world is now producing half a trillion plastic water bottles every year, and only nine per cent of all plastic ever produced has been recycled.

Is it wrong to cheer such terrible luck for possibly the most sadistic figure in the Trump administration? Or for Trump himself, the others in his administration and the GOP senators who have so debased their office in his service?

Even though the divided United States is so neatly summed up by the choice between Trump and Biden, the division isn’t simply partisan.

Despite Trans Mountain's repeated assurance that the terminal tanks at the end of the pipeline meet "all relevant regulatory requirements... consistent with environmental best practices," residents still fear for their safety.

Forests — with their significant carbon reduction and removal potential, health benefits, provision of livelihoods and food security for many rural poor and their potential to create an additional 80 million green jobs — are crucial for a sustainable, long-term global recovery.

The federal government has struggled in the past five years to engage constructively with the manufacturing sector. It has juggled with its green agenda and the need to keep its traditional industries running at the same time.

The question is whether Ford will apply his new conciliatory approach to another looming threat — climate change.

Green and inclusive recovery plans make for smart economics, and will lay the groundwork for future prosperity. But a full recovery can't start while this pandemic continues.