climate change

Two years after the Trudeau government promised to plant two billion trees, the only thing growing is criticism from the opposition

In examining powerful institutions like Big Oil, costly investigative journalism takes a backseat to reactive coverage, write Robert Hackett and Hanna Araza.

Under existing climate policies, electric vehicles could wipe out the use of two million barrels a day of diesel and petrol.

Many of the common hurdles for large-scale carbon capture and storage can be addressed when projects share knowledge and do not start from ground zero in their development, writes Beth (Hardy) Valiaho of International CCS Knowledge Centre.

Oregon State University’s massive snake collection is helping researchers learn how animals adapt to climate change in their environments.

Reaction to the B.C. budget from clean energy think tanks and environmental groups in the province has ranged from, at best, tepid to, at worst, scathing.

As Epicurious cut beef from its digital diet this week, conservative culture warriors used misinformation to invent their own meat-related scandal, writes columnist Max Fawcett. But at some point, we're going to have to reckon with the climate impact of our diet.

Join Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna and Canada’s National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood on May 4 for a Conversations event about climate-focused infrastructure spending and Canada's future.

The massive melting of glaciers has tilted Earth's rotation, showing the impact human activities are having on the planet.

On Day 2 of the Nobel Prize Summit, the celebrated immunologist, who received death threats last year after he corrected Donald Trump’s pandemic lies, had a warning for scientists seduced by the proximity to power.

Xiye Bastida, a young climate activist from Mexico, urged scientists and world leaders to pay attention to traditional Indigenous knowledge in addition to their usual information sources as she spoke at the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit.

Lightning strikes in the far north could double by 2100. That means more wildfires, which could release massive amounts of planet-warming gas.

"We aren’t the U.S., and implementing their solutions doesn’t get us as far," writes energy-worker-turned-environmental-poet Ross Belot.

The primary fuel of the climate crisis — CO2 in our atmosphere — continues to accelerate upwards, unchecked by decades of Earth Days, climate summits and even a global pandemic. Barry Saxifrage shows us where we are now, globally and in Canada.

The former leader of Canada's federal Green Party discussed climate change solutions, the road to COP26 and the urgency of the climate emergency in an interview with Canada's National Observer.