climate crisis

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.”

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.

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.

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.

Climate change-induced angst is helping fuel growing youth mental health instability across North America, according to a cross-border investigation involving more than 70 journalists, academics and students across Canada and the U.S.

"Over millennia, we have developed confidence that we will overcome challenges with each other," says 32-year-old La'goot (Spencer Greening). "Yes, you face fear and worry in times of a changing climate, but you have faith that you can overcome together."

To the atmosphere, this year’s “return to nature” — a silver lining for some amid a deadly virus — was virtually meaningless.

If we want to get to net zero by 2050, we first have to get to roughly half as many emissions in 2030 as in 2010, Elizabeth May says.

Meet ​'Cúagilákv (Jess Housty), a 34-year-old Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) change-maker helping to promote food security and self-reliance in Bella Bella, B.C.

In his new book, 'A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency,' Seth Klein imparts an unflinching warning about where this country stands in the fight to curb catastrophic climate change, and offers a plan for the path ahead.

Canada's top central banker is making a plea for the country to more quickly address the impacts of climate change to avoid any economic ripple effects on households and businesses.

Naomi and Seth Klein are probably Canada’s most famous sibling activists, but you could say they are just following in the family business.

Meet Vanessa Corkal, a sustainable development researcher who's not afraid to ask the big questions.

By consciously making space for women in the green recovery from COVID-19, we’ll find new pathways for fixing the economic and ecological imbalances with which our society is reckoning, write Jesse Firempong and Lydie Padilla.