climate crisis

COP26, the United Nations climate conference, sets the agenda on climate action around the world — and this year's event is critical in bringing planetary heating under control.

Despite decades of failing, Canada is once again promising big emissions cuts even as it expands fossil fuel production. Has any nation pulled it off? Here's what I found when I went looking.

The world risks widespread hunger and climate chaos unless countries end billions in subsidies to industrial farms and use the savings to support smaller and more diverse farms, a new UN report warns.

What sort of political movement will it take to get our representatives closer to what scientists say is needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, asks Aaron Myran, co-founder and executive director of Future Majority.

A new era of Taliban rule has brought years of environmental restoration efforts in Afghanistan to a grinding halt. Farkhunda Ateel Siddiqi is urging the international community to "take action" so that progress is not lost.

Government directly controls only a small part of our national emissions, and even large government subsidies to households and firms are repeatedly shown by leading researchers to have but a small effect, writes Mark Jaccard.

Study finds the climate crisis, agriculture and pesticide use threaten relatives of the world’s most important crops, considered crucial to food security.

Inspired by the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing for a modern counterpart: a Civilian Climate Corps that would create hundreds of thousands of jobs building trails, restoring streams and helping prevent catastrophic wildfires.

Analysis shows the future is bleak for the fossil fuel industry with trillions of dollars of assets at stake.

In their first-ever joint statement, the three Christian clerics said the coronavirus pandemic gave political leaders an unprecedented opportunity to rethink the global economy and make it more sustainable and socially just for the poor.

A coalition of environmental groups called on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, for this year’s climate summit to be postponed, arguing that too little has been done to ensure the safety of participants amid the continuing threat from COVID-19.

Shitangshu Roy is working with young people and technology for climate solutions.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned U.S. climate envoy John Kerry on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, that deteriorating U.S.-China relations could undermine cooperation between the two on climate change.

The Liberals, NDP and Greens all aim to build on Canada’s climate efforts. They want to increase both ambition and action — and one party, the Conservatives, wants to go backward, write Clean Energy Canada's Merran Smith and Sarah Petrevan.

In the aftermath of an extreme melt event, what do scientists see in the Greenland Ice Sheet’s swirls of white, blue, and ominous grey?