Healing Canada’s social infrastructure
How can every Canadian play their part in the co-creation of the social infrastructure of tomorrow so that no one is left behind?
climate crisis
The place that coal built and fire killed
Extractive industry laid the infrastructure for the suburban sprawl that fuelled Colorado’s destructive Marshall Fire.
The ‘freedom convoy’ shows why we need a long-term climate plan
If we can’t handle even two years of what has been an inconvenience caused by the pandemic, how are we going to handle the even bigger changes we need to make to transition our economy to renewable energies and systems?
Zain Haq willing to go to jail if it helps save the planet
On Feb. 15, the 21-year-old history student at Simon Fraser University is to be sentenced for his alleged obstruction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
Twelve of the 50 bumblebee species in North America are listed as at-risk, some declining by almost 90 per cent in last two decades
If bumblebee populations do continue to dwindle, most assuredly, we will be worse off for it.
Canadians want a clean energy economy and believe the significance of oil will recede, polling shows
Most Canadians think clean energy is critical for Canada’s economy and its importance will only grow over time while the significance of oil and gas will recede, according to a poll released Thursday.
When measuring climate change, don’t forget about the humidity
A team of scientists in the U.S. and China decided to use an obscure weather measurement called equivalent potential temperature — or theta-e — that reflects “the moisture energy of the atmosphere.”
Andrés Jiménez Monge on finding birds and happiness
Andrés Jiménez Monge amplifies the voices of birds to elevate hope. As urban program co-ordinator for Birds Canada, he hosts podcasts profiling bird lovers and runs online courses empowering city dwellers to love the birds around them.
A true count of climate deaths
Climate change is already killing people, but countries don’t have an easy way to count the true mortality cost of carbon. A new project might change that.
Environmental progress means changing politics for youth
Youth dissatisfaction and distrust of politics in Canada is high, as evidenced every time we have an election.
Rosie Simms helps keep the fresh water flowing
As research lead and project manager at the University of Victoria’s POLIS Water Sustainability Project, Rosie Simms helps decision-makers centre water in planning and building healthy communities.
Across the boreal forest, scientists track warming’s toll
From Minnesota to the Northwest Territories, researchers are studying dramatic changes in the vast northern forests: thawing permafrost, drowned trees, methane releases, increased wildfires, and the slow transformation of these forests from carbon sinks to carbon emitters.
The throne speech Premier John Horgan means to give
Columnist Seth Klein believes he has had a sneak peek at the B.C. government's Feb. 8 throne speech. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.
We saved the puffins, but a heating planet is unravelling that work
"Seabirds are climate change prisoners. Our inaction makes us the executioners."
Defusing the climate crisis depends on defusing the democracy emergency
The collapse of U.S. democracy would carry especially damaging climate consequences, writes Mark Hertsgaard, co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now.
