climate change

The world burns 65 percent more coal today than it did in 2000, according to the IEA’s new report.

As the world warms, scientists say that abrupt shifts in weather patterns — droughts followed by severe floods, or sudden and unseasonable fluctuations in temperature — are intensifying, adding yet another climate-related threat that is already affecting humans and natural world.

“Climate change is like the weather on steroids,” Environment Canada climatologist David Phillips said.

Industry group says a levy on fuel consumption could subsidize development of zero-carbon vessels, but an analyst at the David Suzuki Foundations says the idea is "too little too late."

In a courtroom in British Columbia on Monday, December 17, 2019, Indigenous communities were arguing the federal government overstepped in approving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and that it has to be stopped over concerns about its impact on the environment.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney heads to the UK today for a trip his office says will highlight the province's "responsible energy sector" and to counter what Kenney says is a campaign against investment in the oilsands.

The findings reflect increasing concerns about global warming across the country.

Some unlikely neighbours are moving in around the northernmost communities of the Northwest Territories, across the icy tundra of Canada's High Arctic.

Seventeen members of Trudeau's cabinet get explicit orders to work on climate issues.

“The impacts of a changing Arctic are not confined to those who live there,” researchers wrote in the 14th annual Arctic Report Card.

You’ve been hearing there's a global climate summit happening in Madrid this week. If you’re wondering what these international negotiations are and whether they have been making any progress, you’ve come to the right place.

"I’m here because President Trump is not,” the billionaire philanthropist and 2020 Democratic contender said in Madrid.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said she was surprised and honoured on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, to learn she had been named Time’s youngest “Person of the Year,” saying the accolade deserved to be shared by others in the global movement she helped inspire.

Climate shocks and significant deviations from the average temperatures blamed for 16% fishing job loses in New England’s coastal counties, according to new study 

Exxon Mobil won on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, in a closely watched lawsuit over the costs of climate change, with a judge saying there was no proof the energy giant duped investors about the toll that regulations could take on its business.