climate change

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.

Canada will have a hard time meeting its climate goals at home if it keeps producing its main fossil fuel, oil. But there may be an even bigger story about oil and Canada: the global impact of oilsands growth could undermine international progress just as much.

IKEA moved to ban single-use plastics on Friday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off the G7 summit in Quebec where he is pushing for a charter to reduce plastic waste pollution in the world's oceans.

Asked how long he thinks it will take to fulfill a campaign trail pledge to extricate Ontario from its cap and trade system for controlling emissions and how much it will cost, Premier-designate Doug Ford instead started talking about how he thought it would be hard for him to pick out a cabinet because of the strength of his team.