climate change
Australia challenges duty of care ruling to prevent future climate change
The Federal Court battle over a proposed coal mine expansion comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison battles to persuade his conservative government colleagues to commit to a zero emissions target for Australia by 2050.
For decades, economists helped Big Oil obstruct climate action
Science historian Benjamin Franta on the role economists played in the fossil fuel industry's decades-long disinformation campaign.
UN climate summit leader says rich countries need to pay up
Alok Sharma, the British official who will preside over an upcoming U.N. climate summit said he's losing sleep over how to get long-promised funding for poorer nations to switch to cleaner energy and cope with the worst impacts of climate change.
How to reform Big Oil from the inside out
Mark van Baal, the man behind a series of climate-friendly shareholder rebellions, shows how it’s done.
Scientists says future of Middle East depends on speedy transition to renewables
A climate change conference will underscore to policy-makers in the Middle East and the east Mediterranean that the switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is needed urgently.
U.S. may finally restrict plastic industry’s preferred method of ‘recycling’
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, formally announced it was considering tighter regulations for pyrolysis and gasification — controversial processes that are associated with “chemical recycling.”
'We know it's possible': Severn Cullis-Suzuki sees roadmap for climate response in Canada
Public pressure and lessons learned from Indigenous peoples and the pandemic are keys to tackling the climate emergency, says Severn Cullis-Suzuki, the David Suzuki Foundation’s new executive director.
Why Canada has an essential role to play at COP26
In just a few weeks, Canada will join nearly 200 other countries at the United Nations climate conference to set goals and make promises that will be essential to reduce emissions worldwide.
Pacific salmon are struggling. Researchers think heat waves could wipe them out
Heat waves like those that scorched western North America this summer risk wiping out B.C.'s salmon fisheries in future decades, on top of expected declines due to long-term climate change, a new study has found.