climate crisis

Seeking to re-frame climate policy as a matter of economic justice, not just emissions targets, the party came out of its recent convention with an aggressive policy position that's likely to influence federal Leader Jagmeet Singh in the coming election.

Protesters, joined by faith leaders and members of Extinction Rebellion Toronto, took over the intersection of Yonge and Dundas streets in downtown Toronto on June 10 as part of a demonstration to declare a climate crisis.

Taken as a whole, this project would thus further alter the terrestrial and marine ecosystems on which life on Earth depends, even as UN-mandated experts have recently confirmed an "unprecedented" and accelerating rate of extinction of species, thus eroding "the very foundations of our economies, our livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life around the world."

The change won’t be pretty, but it must be done. Going forward, we must reward sustainable activity only.

Canadians could save as much as $24 billion annually by 2050 by scaling back the use of fossil fuels to heat and cool their buildings and deploying a range of low-carbon and energy efficient technologies, according to a new joint study by a federal regulator and an international agency.

It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet to warm before it began funding a Big Tobacco-style misinformation campaign to discredit climate science. Now the world’s largest publicly traded oil company will face public questions for the first time over its role in creating a climate crisis on Earth.

On a particularly windy Friday afternoon, thousands of students gathered outside Canada to demand a better future. Their chants echoed through the air: “We are unstoppable. Another world is possible,” they roared.

Human cost of climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals

Philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, will invest $3.5 billion within the next 10 years to address the climate crisis, a spokesperson for Emerson Collective, Jobs’ organization, said Monday

A new study finds that slow-moving, low-pressure storms could become 14 times more frequent in Europe over the next century.

“The community hasn’t done as good of a job projecting how bad climate impacts would be at 1.2 C,” one scientist said.

Even though Parliament won’t look much different, some experts say Justin Trudeau’s bruised minority government has given other parties leverage to push for more ambitious climate action.

Brazil, France and Germany say UN can’t hear complaint against five countries of flouting child rights to clean air