climate change

Tens of trillions of dollars in economic gains lie in wait as the ultimate prize for nations that can successfully put a price on pollution, kill fossil fuel subsidies and take other steps to tackle climate change — but time is running out.

When I wrote to Justin Trudeau on October 25, 2015—almost three years ago—I warned him that it was critical to implement his promise to redo Trans Mountain’s review and fix the industry-captured National Energy Board as soon as possible.  

On Wednesday, August 29, 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau painstakingly explained to students in Kapuskasing, Ont., how the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is a central pillar of his government's agenda.

B.C.'s Okanagan Valley, known for its long hot summers and beautiful lakes, wineries and orchards, has long been a popular destination for tourists, wedding parties, and families seeking a healthy lifestyle closer to the great outdoors. Although temperatures are starting to cool down, blazes are still raging across the province in the second-worst wildfire season in B.C’s history.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has removed “climate change” from the name of a powerful committee of ministers, and launched another cabinet body devoted to reconciliation.

B.C.'s runners and outdoors enthusiasts have been devastated by the smoke and haze from wildfires scorching the province this summer.

Ottawa has posted a tender asking engineering firms to assess how climate change and extreme weather will affect some of Atlantic Canada's major ferry terminals, airports and the Confederation Bridge.

Dozens of epitaphs written over the weekend proclaim the late U.S. Senator John McCain as an American hero, writes Eric Holthaus. But history may miss one of his greatest achievements: His decades-long call for climate action.

A traditional hunter in the Northwest Territories says he used to welcome the cruise ships coming into the Beaufort Sea in Canada's Arctic.

Alberta’s ruling New Democrats are reassuring the oil and gas industry that a revamped science curriculum won’t portray them negatively, even as they move to ensure students learn that climate change is real.

Justin Trudeau's twin objectives to reduce Canada's carbon emissions and build a pipeline to carry oilsands bitumen to the coast collided Wednesday in a province ravaged by wildfires that the prime minister's own government attributes to climate change.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his newly shuffled cabinet gathered on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, for a retreat on Vancouver Island, under smoke-filled skies amid a province-wide wildfire emergency.

Premier John Horgan says successive B.C. governments have budgeted "laughable" amounts of money to fight wildfires that are becoming all too common through the ravages of climate change.

Conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the U.S., the Trump administration declares in a major new policy statement that threatens to undermine decades of government campaigns for gas-thrifty cars and other conservation programs.

Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary.