Bill McKibben

Research challenges idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal

Ten years after launching a global fossil fuel divestment campaign, legendary climate activist Bill McKibben reflects.

After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it’s nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill on Friday, August 12, 2022, that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.

Winning awards is usually considered a good thing. There are, however, various tongue-in-cheek honours that are more about mocking their recipients than celebrating their work.

The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to build the oil pipeline, yet the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene.

Veteran climate activist Bill McKibben joined Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood last week to talk about Canada's climate future.

Join veteran climate activist Bill McKibben and Canada’s National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood in an exclusive Conversations event on March 4 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Fridays for Future, the youth climate campaign, was seeing numbers of protesters decline and its calls for action falling short of its goals. Now, the movement is recalibrating its strategies to try to usher in the next phase of a global campaign.

They’ve launched a new strategy to change the university from within.

Firm’s public calls for climate action contrast with backing for conservative thinktanks

What if alternative energy isn't all it's cracked up to be? That's the provocative question explored in the documentary "Planet of the Humans," which is backed and promoted by filmmaker Michael Moore and directed by one of his longtime collaborators. It premiered last week at his Traverse City Film Festival.

If the NDP want to turn their fortunes around by October, their best (and maybe only) hope is to bring the bold vision of a Green New Deal to Canada.

When I checked my email one day last week, there was a link to a piece just published in The Globe and Mail. A columnist named Gary Mason had used me as his foil to prove that protests against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion were subversive plots imported from the U.S., part of a grand overall strategy to mess with the fossil fuel industry.

British Columbia is a key cork in the climate change bottle, keeping a giant share of the planet’s carbon underground, writes U.S. environmentalist, journalist, and book author Bill McKibben.

Militarized police and the military itself advancing on Indigenous people protecting their traditional land.