climate crisis

How does Canada reconcile two seemingly contradictory positions: trying to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 while at the same time supporting oil pipelines and fossil fuel exports?

“The climate issue is so intersectional. It hits housing, it hits social justice, the pandemic — we want to explore all of that,” says Abby Neufeld, co-founder of The New Twenties, a writers’ collective and magazine aiming to shape discourse around climate issues.

Young activists blocked traffic in the heart of Toronto’s financial district for hours on Friday as part of a global action demanding governments take more drastic steps to curb carbon emissions.

The industry has backed polluters for decades. Now, amid growing pressure, Wall Street says it’s going green.

A study of tree rings dating back to the Roman empire concludes Europe's weather since 2014 has been extraordinary.

Ontario's New Democrats say they would create a new cap-and-trade carbon pricing system if elected in 2022.

The federal government published proposed regulations online March 5 that would establish a Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System. The proposal is open for feedback until May 5; the government expects to publish final rules later this year.

Young activists from across Canada want specific climate conditions attached to pandemic recovery funds in the next federal budget and no more new fossil fuel infrastructure, they told federal Green Party Leader Annamie Paul on Friday.

A global energy watchdog's stats found fossil fuel emissions climbed steadily over the second half of 2020.

New peer-reviewed study finds global pollution cuts need to increase tenfold to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Join veteran climate activist Bill McKibben and Canada’s National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood in an exclusive Conversations event on March 4 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

For the second time in a week, police in Prince Edward Island were called to the scene of a wandering seal, and animal specialists say it may not be the last.

Six experts say the failure to reform climate finance risks is undermining trust in the Paris Agreement.

“You can’t just sit around waiting for hope to come,” Greta Thunberg told European leaders in 2019. “Then you are acting like spoiled, irresponsible children. You don’t seem to understand that hope is something that you have to earn.”

The wintry weather that has battered the southern U.S. and parts of Europe could be a counterintuitive effect of the climate crisis.