climate change

There was momentum, and then it was gone. In an exclusive interview with National Observer, the environment and climate change minister defends her record despite recent electoral gains by the right.

A new study finds that being better informed about the facts underlying policy-related issues doesn't necessarily influence people's beliefs about the policies needed to address those facts.

World leaders met in France on Monday, August 26, 2019, to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change, biodiversity, and warming oceans. The members of the G-7 — the world’s richest nations — walked away from that meeting with a plan to release $20 million in aid to the countries battling historic blazes in the Amazon. But one leader was notably absent: Donald Trump.

He may have spent the weekend an ocean away from home, rubbing elbows with world leaders during tense talks on international crises, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kept cool, collected and decidedly out of the fray.

The federal government is spending $15 million and offering up the use of Canadian water bombers to help fight the wildfires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, August 26, 2019, as he wrapped up several days of meetings with G7 world leaders in France.

A new book arriving on the eve of the federal election campaign is offering policy geeks a comprehensive take on whether Justin Trudeau lived up to his 2015 vows.

We need the voices of the imams, rabbis, bishops, priests and monks in our communities to speak to their congregations of the urgent need to act on behalf of our climate.

Inhabitants of low-lying atolls and archipelagos in the Pacific have to worry about losing their security and livelihoods — and even the very existence of the places they call home.

A research expedition in northern Labrador is currently assessing vital yet relatively unexplored marine habitats.

Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother Charles poured a fortune into right-wing causes, transforming the American political landscape and shaping U.S. policies on such issues as climate change and government regulation, died on Friday, August 23, 2019, at 79.

The blazes are roasting South America's biggest country just as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is rolling back environmental and indigenous protections.

Federal fisheries experts are painting a devastating picture of the challenges facing Pacific salmon and point to climate change as the main culprit.

A leading climate expert’s modelling of the Conservative climate plan shows emissions will rise, as the proposed tools are not proven to work.

A cereal and beers are now being made with a new variety of perennial grain known as Kernza. Proponents say this marks a significant advance for a new agriculture that borrows from the wild prairie and could help ensure sustainable food production in a warming world.

Canada won't back down in its defence of Canadians against an increasingly assertive China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, following another round of sharp criticism from the Asian country.