Vanguard refuses to sign up to climate commitment with BlackRock
US asset manager that built up fossil fuel portfolio fails to join rivals in engaging with climate
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How to ease the environmental footprint of 2020 travel
It was a recent trip to Australia during the country's devastating wildfires that got Paul Winston thinking seriously about changing his globetrotting habits.
World's largest investor, BlackRock, joins climate action group
World’s largest investor signs up to Climate Action 100+ after criticism from activists
New sci-fi series 'Endlings' eerily prescient
Amid climate crisis concerns and youth activism from the likes of Greta Thunberg, it was a given that the conservation message in the new CBC/Hulu tween series "Endlings" would be timely.
How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation
Activists say Democratic climate proposals won’t be able to pass until lawmakers put a stop to oil companies trying to rebrand themselves
Shutdown of US coal plants saved over 26,000 lives, study finds
Shift to gas saved more than 300m tons of planet-heating carbon dioxide as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide levels dropped
Amazon threatened to fire workers speaking out on climate, employees say
Revealed: emails show group of employees who called for stronger climate action by the company were told they risked dismissal
Nuclear power is clean – except for all the waste
Compare the annual waste produced by a coal-burning power plant and a nuclear generating station.
7 numbers that show how dire climate change got this decade
From melting ice caps to record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes and floods, the deadly consequences of human-caused global warming are here.
How the loss of ice due to climate crisis could alter our way of life
Life in Canada and abroad is intertwined with ice. But the loss of winter could alter our traditions and livelihoods, a new study has found.
Banking regulator compares climate risk to asbestos
The cancer caused by asbestos takes a long time to develop, but once it does, the damage is often brutal and injury lawsuits plentiful — and the Canadian financial industry should keep that kind of slow-burn risk in mind for the climate crisis, its regulator says.
Converting coal plants to biomass would decimate forests, scientists warn
Experts horrified at large-scale forest removal to meet wood pellet demand
Fed's carbon tax fight with Alberta goes to appeal
About a year ago, Alberta's United Conservative Party leader stood in front of 1,500 raucous supporters and called the federal carbon tax an act of "economic masochism" that he would fight with everything in his power if he were elected premier.
McGill is still investing in fossil fuels and has no plans to stop
The question is simple: is it socially responsible, in 2019, knowing what we know about the role of fossil fuels in the creation and acceleration of the climate crisis, to invest in the fossil fuel industry? Amazingly, McGill University has answered yes.
How humans kicked off the Pyrocene, a new ‘age of fire’
Are we reckoning with a new age of fire? Is this the Pyrocene?