climate crisis

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

“Canadians don’t like to hear it, and I don’t like to say it, but even under Donald Trump, the Americans did a better job at tackling the climate emergency over his four years than Canada did,” newly elected Green party Leader Annamie Paul said during a public conversation via Zoom on Thursday.

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s win gives the globe a better chance of averting climate catastrophe, but major obstacles remain.

After five days of nail-biting, anxiety-inducing ballot counting in half a dozen key swing states, Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Leaders are happy to set targets for decades ahead but flinch when immediate action is needed, the teen climate activist says.

Meet Galen Armstrong, 31, the father of twins and an organizer with For Our Kids, a national network of parents and grandparents asking for meaningful action on climate change.

The logging industry continues to cut faster than Canada's managed forests can keep up with. The resulting flood of CO2 is a rapidly growing climate threat, Barry Saxifrage writes, and Ottawa needs new climate policies to rein it in.

France, Germany and UK among more than 60 countries promising to put wildlife and climate at heart of post-Covid recovery plans

Heat and wildfire smoke force residents to seek respite – and buy cooling systems and air purifiers, if they can afford them

The 18-year-old climate activist is trying to protect the iconic wilderness area that the Trump administration opened to oil drilling.

Rise in carbon capture as global warming speeds growth of forests would be negated by earlier deaths, say scientists

Coronavirus denial shares many similarities to climate denial, the dismissal of the scientific consensus around global warming.

"You’re taking a population that’s been suffering this year, and then you don’t want to put that population more at risk," says a biology professor who organized initiative.

Revealed: Oil and mining firms – some with ties to Trump officials – taking advantage of funding, review shows

Far from just impacting transportation today, the pandemic and ensuing economic fallout could have big implications for the transit systems of tomorrow.