climate change

As Trans Mountain details its next six months of pipeline construction, Oil Change International states that we must stop extracting more oil.

The scorching heat wave that set records in Ontario and Quebec over the Canada Day long weekend can't be directly attributed to climate change — but neither can the likelihood of a connection be ignored outright, says a University of Waterloo climate scientist.

Increased shipping could make parts of the Northwest Passage among the most dangerous places in the Arctic for the whales and other mammals that live there, a study suggests.

Federal documents echo earlier concerns that Canada's largest national park faces long-term threats that could place it on a list of endangered world heritage sites.

Representatives from German industry, environmental groups and unions met on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in Berlin to discuss how and when the country can stop using coal to generate electricity.

Author Adam Weymouth canoed the length of the Yukon River. His brilliant book, Kings of the Yukon, takes the reader on a journey of sound, smells, shifts of light and colour, storms and sunshine, wistfulness, fear, and admiration for the mighty King salmon and the people along the way.

A disappointed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning an intervention in Ontario after Doug Ford announced he was abandoning his province's commitment to a national climate change plan.

Energy efficiency and technology squeeze the carbon bubble, writes David Suzuki. It's a bubble that will burst with or without government action.

Earlier this week, Environment and Climate Change Canada said it would decide later whether its fossil fuel subsidies review would be published in full. After a line of questioning from National Observer however, it appears to have changed its tune.

Germany will likely miss its goal of cutting emissions by 40 per cent by 2020, the country's environment minister said on Monday, June 18, 2018, an embarrassing admission for a government that wants to lead the charge on limiting climate change.

Jim Anderson is the Philip S. Weld professor of chemistry at Harvard, a "titanic force" behind saving the planet from disintegration of the ozone layer. We need to stop all fossil fuel emissions if we want to prevent irreversible climate change. Expanding a pipeline to transport fossil fuels is not a step in the right direction, he says.

The decision to move quickly to fulfill this particular campaign pledge will likely create turmoil in the secondary market, where those that have bought credits to release pollution in the future will feel compelled to sell them at a discount since they now appear virtually worthless.

Scientist David Suzuki asks "how do we ensure the price of fossil fuels includes the costs of pollution, environmental degradation and climate disruption?" The simplest and proven way, he writes, is to put a price on carbon emissions.

The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study.

The deal that emerged from the Trump-Kim summit has been criticized as having weaker language than in past North Korean negotiations. It turns out, it also has weaker language than the G7 statement that the Americans endorsed right before Trump fled Canada for Singapore.