Doctors know banning fossil fuel ads is a matter of life and death
The movement to ban fossil fuel advertising is about saving lives. People in Canada are already dying from fossil fuel pollution, with more deaths to come.
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In Bermuda, the signs of spring are changing
Data collected by birdwatchers reveals that the iconic white-tailed tropicbird is arriving earlier and earlier.
Singapore is building world’s largest facility to suck carbon from the sea
A startup is zapping seawater with electricity to extract and store away carbon, but scientists remain skeptical.
Zero Carbon: Kicking the hornet’s nest
Switzerland kicked the hornet’s nest of geoengineering with an official proposal to find a way to shade the Earth at the UN Environment Assembly’s latest gathering in Nairobi.
Exciting new position opens at Canada's National Observer–climate business reporter
Canada's National Observer is hiring! If you are an experienced business journalist, this job could be for you.
B.C. wine industry to regroup after climate-related catastrophes
The heart of British Columbia's wine industry is reeling after suffering a litany of climate-related hits, resulting in two years of crop losses in the southern Interior.
California towns are banning new gas stations. That has Big Oil’s attention
As the urgency of addressing climate change grows across the United States, one unprecedented heat wave and flood at a time, cities are finding ways to cut fossil fuels out of their future.
Scientists probe impacts of historic lack of Great Lakes ice
Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks.
Oilsands companies want Pierre Poilievre to save them
The oilsands industry keeps saying it can't proceed with carbon capture and storage projects because of "political uncertainty." What its leaders won't say is the name of the politician who's actually creating it: Pierre Poilievre.
Greenwashing death threats ‘show you who the Conservatives are,’ NDP leader says
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh slammed the federal Conservatives on Wednesday for spreading falsehoods that left his party's natural resources critic facing death threats and homophobic slurs.
MP gets death threats over greenwashing bill
MP Charlie Angus has been "inundated" with death threats, swearing and homophobic slurs over his proposal to curb greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry.
Logging emissions must be on the ledger
Logging is a carbon polluter on the scale of the high-emitting agriculture and building sectors.
Ottawa celebrates signing a watershed ocean treaty
Ocean conservation groups celebrated Canada's move but also urged the federal government to quickly ratify the accord aimed at protecting ocean life in shared international waters.
Reflections on John Kerry's time as top US climate negotiator
Joanna Depledge said Kerry will be remembered as “a force for good in the negotiations,” turning the page on low points, such as previous U.S. administrations pulling out — twice — from international climate agreements.
Keeping new homes out of harm’s way
Canada lacks up-to-date, accessible and location-specific information about climate hazards such as floods and wildfires, undermining the ability of governments, developers and homebuyers to make good choices.
