climate change

Big Oil might have reached its tipping point last week when three major oil companies — ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and Chevron — were rebuked by shareholders and the courts for not aligning their strategies with the threat of climate change.

By restoring ecosystems, conservationists can help the land sequester carbon. But it's still no substitute for drastically cutting emissions.

The automaker said in a presentation for investors Wednesday that it will add about US$8 billion to its EV development spending from this year to 2025.

To hear the International Energy Agency warning about the dangers of the climate crisis is a game-changer, writes Greenpeace Canada senior energy strategist Keith Stewart.

Dr. Samantha Green is part of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, a group that believes the health of patients and their families depends on a healthy planet.

“If we are to talk about economics in general, I think we can’t hide the fact that there is huge divestment happening from the fossil fuel sector,” says David Suzuki Foundation director general for Quebec and Atlantic Canada, Sabaa Khan.

Over 40 leading Canadian researchers signed a letter this week urging Canada to support efforts to create a global UN treaty to address plastic pollution. About two-thirds of countries globally and several major food and beverage companies have indicated support for the approach. 

Nearly 59 million hectares of forest have regrown since 2000, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off.

The first batch of baby crickets moved into Matt Muzzatti's living room when the pandemic hit last year, and he’s been adding more ever since.

Canada’s leading “natural” gas companies seek to impede electrification, writes columnist Seth Klein.

A survey of 800 cities around the world also found almost 43 per cent do not even have plan to adapt to the impacts of global heating.

Patricia Lane introduces us to Mitchell Dickau, who reckoned the best way to illustrate the impact of climate change for skate-loving Montrealers was to calculate how many days without ice rinks rising temperatures will mean.

The Bloc Québécois is pushing the Liberal government to avoid calling an election during the pandemic. But, writes Gérard Montpetit, there is another reason to pay attention to the Bloc: the environment.

The federal fisheries minister, B.C. agriculture minister, and federal and provincial Green Party politicians are all on board to open the week-long Seaweed Days being debuted by Cascadia Seaweed on Monday.

The fund is the latest addition to the Low Carbon Cities Canada network run by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, joining cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.