climate change

An analysis of dozens of blogs that question the threat climate change poses to polar bears has found those publications ignore virtually all the science on both the bears and sea ice.

There's an image circulating the Internet comparing the environmental damage of a lithium battery to the oilsands. Pay them no mind, writes David Suzuki.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provoked outrage as well as glowing praise when he first announced that the free ride for climate polluting industries would end. Today, as the deadline looms, the office of Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna says the government is ready to take action.

Washington state's governor took aim at President Donald Trump in a speech to British Columbia's legislature on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, saying travel bans on immigrants and refugees have caused economic and moral wounds in the United States.

Canada and the rest of the world have punted a lot of the hard work on climate change ahead, leaving a massive "to-do" list for 2018. National Observer's managing editor, Mike De Souza, just back from Germany, analyzes the state of play in the complex international negotiations.

An amendment to the Montreal Protocol has been signed that will lower the levels of a type of greenhouse gas that warms the planet even more quickly than carbon dioxide, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017.

Canada boasted about its leadership at the annual United Nations climate conference after spearheading the Canada-UK Powering Past Coal Alliance. The alliance includes more than 25 countries and sub-national governments pledging to phase out coal by 2030.

B.C. Premier John Horgan met Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced plans to strengthen the partnership between British Columbia and Washington state, and fight climate change while creating jobs across the region.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley arrived at the doorstep of federal power today to deliver a stern message to the Trudeau government on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion: “step up.”

Even back in August 2017, as U.S. President Donald Trump raged over Congress's failure to kill Obamacare, oil billionaires Charles and David Koch, must have been popping champagne.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan opened a security conference on Friday, Nov. 17, 2017, by saying Canada is embracing a more muscular approach to international security, touting a new peacekeeping strategy and increased military spending as signs of an "increased role."

When asked about Kinder Morgan’s plans to proceed with its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, linking Alberta’s oilsands producers to the west coast, Gov. Jay Inslee says he’s very worried about expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and the impacts on his own state, including impacts on endangered orca whales.

On the surface, the Canadian government's commitment to gender equality in climate change policy is inspiring, but two youth delegates to the COP23 negotiations say it still doesn't go far enough.

A U.S. effort to stoke the fires of coal-powered electricity didn't escape the attention of Canada's environment minister on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, as Catherine McKenna used her Twitter account to troll the carbon-based fuel just as American officials were extolling its virtues.

Catherine McKenna said that Canada is leading efforts to introduce new provisions in the Paris Agreement that force countries to address the impacts that climate change has on women. She said the goal is also to ensure that there are more women at the negotiating table.