Clamshells put through the acid test
As acidification threatens shellfish along North America’s Pacific Coast, Indigenous sea gardens offer solutions.
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Jude Sampson finds climate resilience in community-building
In high school, Sampson co-led the organizing of 10,000 people in the 2019 Fridays for Future Halifax climate strikes. This 20-year-old is now encouraging their university, Dalhousie, to divest from fossil fuels.
Tiny aerosols present a big challenge for global warming
Fossil fuels are rapidly heating the planet, but their aerosols also help cool it. Just how much, though, is a major uncertainty in climate science.
TC Energy predicts cost of Coastal GasLink pipeline project will rise
TC Energy Corp. is expecting what it calls a "material increase" in the cost of its Coastal GasLink pipeline project.
The Order of Ontario rewards a climate villain
By continuing to fund fossil fuel expansion, RBC is complicit in robbing us of a livable future, write Jordan Thaker, Dani Michie and Amy Mann.
Ontario teachers decry new pension board members with oil and gas ties
The boards of Canada’s largest pension funds are already inundated with fossil fuel connections and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is about to add a former executive with ongoing ties to the industry to the mix.
Canada backed bid to scale back ‘unabated’ fossil fuels, but pledge never made it into the final COP27 agreement
Canada was one of more than 80 countries to call for the phasedown of unabated fossil fuels as COP27 negotiations went into overtime.
She left home over toxic pollution. An update to Canada’s main environmental law might help her return
Melissa Daniels is from Fort Chipewyan, an 850-person roadless hamlet in northern Alberta. It's the land her people have lived on for time immemorial, and the place her relatives and friends call home. Yet, despite her love for her home community, she doesn't live there. The settlement is directly downstream from the tarsands, which has contaminated the hamlet and nearby forests with chemicals.
Canada refuses to back COP27 call to 'phase down' oil and gas production
Canada won't agree to add language calling for the phaseout of all fossil fuels — including oil and gas — to the final agreement at this year's United Nations climate talks in Egypt, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Thursday, November 17, 2022.
Crunch time at COP27 reveals rift over fossil fuel future
As COP27 enters its final days, the pressure is on for countries to make their case on what place fossil fuels — the main driver of climate change — have in the future.
Indonesia set to accelerate clean energy transition with deals worth $10 billion
Indonesia signed deals with international lenders and major nations on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, that will bring billions of dollars in funding to help the country increase its use of renewable energy and reduce its reliance on coal.
UN climate are half over and key issues remain unresolved
It's half-way time at the U.N. climate talks in Egypt, with negotiators still working on draft agreements before ministers arrive next week to push for a substantial deal to fight climate change.
Shaming Big Oil won’t work. Canada needs a windfall profits tax
Big Oil created the climate crisis; they haven’t even begun to pay their fair share towards climate action.
Cut your meat intake down to two burgers a week to save the planet
Climate crisis report says "we are not winning in any sector" as experts call for urgent action on fossil fuels.
At UN climate summit, India to flex its negotiating muscles
As countries gathered in Scotland were crystallizing their pledges at last year's United Nations climate conference, India used its might to intervene. Along with China, India took issue with the draft deal's suggestion to “phase out” coal, preferring the wording, “phasedown."