climate change

We have entered an era in which children and young people are standing up and stating truths that many of their adult contemporaries either ignore or flatly deny.

“Faith leaders have been completely invisible, as far as I can tell, in the public debate in Ontario about how to fight climate change in general, and about carbon pricing in particular,” says Dianne Saxe

Doug Ford delivered the partisan message at a staged event in a suburban community west of the Greater Toronto Area, launching into a full-frontal assault on the federal government’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, without acknowledging the science underpinning global efforts to stabilize the planet’s atmosphere and prevent dangerous climate change.

One day last summer, aged 15, she skipped school, sat down outside the Swedish parliament – and inadvertently kicked off a global movement

Facebook should ban posts by so-called anti-vaxxers in order to protect children against measles and other contagious diseases, says a British Columbia mother who launched a petition urging parents to start home schooling if they're against immunization.

A surge in U.S. and Canadian oil production over the last decade has added the equivalent of “one Russia or one Saudi Arabia” to the markets — pushing the planet farther away from ever getting a grip on its pollution and limiting climate change.

"If Washington’s not going to lead, Minnesota will lead," Gov. Tim Walz said, joining California and other states looking to push beyond federal green energy targets.

As economics challenge coal’s future, Wyoming passes a law to prop it up.

Former United States president Barack Obama called on global leaders to pay attention to the ways the world is rapidly transforming, urging action on climate change and wealth inequality in speeches in Western Canada on Tuesday, March 5, 2019.

David Wallace-Wells and Eric Holthaus discuss telling stories about the end of the world, facing climate fears, and finding hope in the face of doomsday studies.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought to divert attention from the disunity in Liberal ranks at a climate change rally in Toronto on Monday, but ran into protests about his government's treatment of Indigenous sovereignty and support for pipelines as well as against the meat industry as a major cause of pollution and environmental degradation.

Mentioning climate change can kill a conversation. But a new Alberta project is using the topic to start one — and is showing people from geologists to farmers to environmentalists that they have more in common than they thought.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to shift the focus from the SNC-Lavalin affair to his preferred campaign battleground — climate change — with the release this week of the Liberal party's first election-year ads.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is telling Americans that he’ll make “defeating climate change our nation’s No. 1 priority.”

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