climate change

Ottawa will invest $222 million to help a Quebec company increase production of critical minerals for goods such as electric cars and batteries while simultaneously cutting emissions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.

The United Nations' development program is calling on rich countries and financial institutions in them to do more to help alleviate a growing debt crisis faced by the world’s poorest countries, including by writing off debts — not just rescheduling them.

New Zealand's government has proposed taxing the greenhouse gases that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change.

California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.

The British government opened a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas exploration on Friday, October 7, 2022, despite criticism from environmentalists and scientists who say the move undermines the country’s commitment to fighting climate change.

New Zealand’s Tūroa ski area is usually a white wonderland at this time of year, its deep snowpack supporting its famed spring skiing. This season, it's largely a barren moonscape.

U.S. officials are touting bioethanol in Japan, which trails other nations on using the green fuel made from corn and other crops.

A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t. It hasn’t for a very long time.

Methane emitted from burps and manure from about 75,000 cows in a massive Brooks, Alta., feedlot is the 11th highest source of the gas nationwide. 

For Liam Coleman, scuba diving in B.C. waters is like taking a weightless walk in the woods.

The worsening effects of climate change are compounding the historical loss of British Columbia’s old-growth forests, says the co-author of a new paper that shows decades of logging on the province’s central coast targeted the highest-value forests first.

It’s time the industry that bears an immense burden of responsibility for the climate emergency is forced to pay its fair share, writes Avi Lewis.

Quebecers are heading to the polls today, October 3, 2022, after a five-week provincial election campaign dominated by issues such as immigration, the environment and the rising cost of living.

King Charles III has decided not to attend the international climate change summit in Egypt next month, fueling speculation that the new monarch will have to rein in his environmental activism now that he has ascended the throne.

Conservative politicians and advocacy groups linked to Canada's far-right and fossil fuel lobby have been posting erroneous information about the federal government's fertilizer plan, a Canada's National Observer investigation reveals.