climate change

The website Women for Natural Gas is a pink-tinged, fancy-cursive-drenched love letter to the oil and gas industry, complete with testimonials from several women. But there’s a catch: The women don’t exist. 

Production of concrete, metal, plastic, bricks and asphalt is greater than the mass of living matter on the planet, new research says.

"Five years (after the Paris Agreement), facing the ravages of the worst public health crisis in a century, what can we apply from our response to public health to our response climate change?" asks Catherine McKenna, former environment minister and current minister of infrastructure and communities.

Five years after it was passed, the Paris agreement may finally be changing the climate on climate change.

The environment and climate change minister's remarks come after former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon urged Canada to “demonstrate greater leadership in the collective effort to tackle climate change.”

The United Church of Canada offers grants of up to $30,000 for faith communities looking to retrofit old churches with environmentally friendly alternatives.

Federal scientists are predicting a hot, dry and fiery future for the Prairies.

Ross Belot spent a career helping oil companies maximize profit, but gradually came to recognize the climate crisis. He now shares his newfound views through poetry.

International analyses suggest Canadian financiers are oiling the wheels of the fossil fuel industry at a far greater rate than their peers.

Rising seas and stronger storms are increasing the risks of living along the world’s coasts. As governments look to move millions of people out of harm’s way, geographer Jola Ajibade says they must ensure that managed retreat is done in a just and equitable way.

The broad-based mobilization of citizens is essential to ensuring the implementation of emissions reduction measures are commensurate with the urgency of the crisis, says Bruce Campbell.

What is already known is stunning: the average cost per weather-related disaster has soared by 1,250 per cent since the 1970s, and the number of catastrophic events has more than tripled since the 1980s.

The stark message from António Guterres follows a year of global upheaval, with the coronavirus pandemic causing governments to shut down whole countries for months at a time, while wildfires, hurricanes and powerful storms have scarred the globe.

Scientists say a year in which almost 200 tundra lakes drained away could point to what's in store for Canada's North.