Everything you need to know about the last 20 years of climate conferences
Everything you need to know about the last 20 years of global climate conferences in one chart.
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Climate change drives political instability and crises: CIA director
If climate change is not brought under control, the world will face more humanitarian crises such as the one in Syria, CIA's director John Brennan warned.
As warming leads to more Bering Strait vessel traffic, Coast Guard studies shipping lanes
Coast Guard is taking steps to plot a shipping route that will help the ships safely navigate the 53-mile wide waterway separating Russia and Alaska.
Trans-Pacific Partnership deal "an act of climate denial"
Environmental advocates say the controversial TPP deal exposes climate change policy to costly lawsuits.
UK: Global temps average this year could hit 1 degree Celsius mark over past for 1st time
2015 forecast to be 1 degree Celsius hotter than the 19th-century average, hitting a symbolic milestone in the temperature rise that scientists blame mostly on human activities.
Transition Alberta off oil sands, climate thinkers urge Trudeau
“If we get to a two degree Celsius world, then forget the Marshall Islands. Forget large parts of Bangladesh. Forget parts of the U.S. and Canada coastline."
UN food security expert warns about impact of climate change on agriculture, malnutrition
The negative impact from climate change on agriculture could subject another 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080.
Surprise! Canada's a global leader in one area of climate action
Canadians have become world leaders in making electricity less climate pollution. Compared to the Americans...
All eyes on Justin Trudeau for real change on climate policy
For starters, set a more ambitious GHG emissions target. Also, appoint a new environment minister, and make that person “Minister of the Environment and Climate Change.”
Sandy Garossino new associate editor at National Observer
Since August, her columns have attracted enormous attention. We can take a hint.
Ben West's Great Climate Race
Join the 10k run or 2.5k walk that begins at Stanley Park on Sunday, November 8th— and that raises funds for renewable energy projects in B.C.
University of California unveils plan to combat climate change, saying it's 'moral imperative'
UC President Janet Napolitano vows to turn the system's 10 campuses into a living laboratory for solutions that can be scaled up to state, national, and global level.
Jet-setting profs pour CO2 into the air
Fifty-six scholars from around the world launch a petition asking academics to curtail their air travel and lower their carbon footprint.
