climate change

The freakish, "rainy-season" Thomas Fire in California has just burned itself into the record books. On Dec. 22, 2017 it officially became the state's largest recorded wildfire, having already burned 273,400 acres.

Canada loses 20 times more forested land to fires and invasive bugs each year than it does to harvesting wood for industry — and Canada's lumber association says climate change is making it worse.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada says there's "reasonable uncertainty" that it is "extremely unlikely" juvenile Fraser River sockeye will catch Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus from farmed Atlantic populations in British Columbia waters. National Observer explains.

Canada and the United States will co-host in a meeting of foreign ministers in Vancouver on Jan. 16, 2018 on the North Korean nuclear crisis.

President Donald Trump removed climate change from the list of worldwide threats menacing the United States on Monday, December 18, 2017, a shift that underscores the long-term ramifications of the "America first" world view he laid out in his new National Security Strategy.

In this era of climate action, trying to sell natural gas with weak methane regulations is like trying to sell oil that produces higher emissions. The world is less and less interested.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released its assessment of Canada’s environmental performance on Tuesday.

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is suggesting New Brunswick’s approach to carbon pricing won’t meet Ottawa’s requirements, but Premier Brian Gallant is defending his plan.

Canada's national clean fuels strategy will apply to every kind of fuel — be it liquid, solid or gas, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Wednesday.

Two years after the historic Paris Agreement, world leaders and business officials gathered in France to find financial solutions in the fight against climate change. Among the major announcements of the day, the World Bank said it would no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019.

The Liberal government wants to lift the mystery surrounding the G7 summit as it prepares to host the gathering next year, in hopes that Canadians will feel more included and, perhaps, less inclined to protest on the periphery.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says Canada and China have made good progress on environmental laws and regulations that are among the barriers to launching official free trade talks.

Empowered by fossil fuel–driven technology, a rapidly growing human population and an insatiable demand for constant growth, our species is responsible for the calamitous consequences.

The themes raised at a recent workshop in Europe represent a great opportunity for the Bank of Canada and our financial market regulators to consider how Canadian financial sector giants are preparing for a clean energy future.

He may have just become head of the David Suzuki Foundation, but Stephen Cornish already has some clear and direct messages for governments and Canadians. There are some serious challenges ahead for all, but some solutions at hand. He also shares his thoughts about the controversies that follow the famous co-founder and namesake of the Vancouver-based environmental organization.