global warming

When Alain Bourque started working in the field of climate change in the mid-1990s, he recalls how, from one presentation to the next, people didn't take him seriously.

Environmental groups to go to court to fight an executive order from President Donald Trump that eliminates many restrictions on fossil fuel production and would roll back plans to curb global warming

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on March 28 that will suspend, rescind, or flag for review measures that were part of former President Barack Obama's plan to curb global warming.

The problem remains: how do we ensure that high-integrity scientific truths genuinely inform public policy?

Michael Chong used the word “they” instead of “we” to refer to his own Conservative party and its “battle” with scientists while it was under the leadership of Stephen Harper.

Global warming could mean that mountain snow melts at a slower pace, researchers said Monday, a peculiar finding that might be bad news for the West and other regions that depend on snow for water.

Minister Garneau was generous with his time; our meeting exceeding the allotted 30 minutes. For all his hospitality and diplomatic courtesy, however, we still walked away feeling patronized.

Chief Allan Adam says he has always tried to balance the environment, public health and economic development issues. But he doesn't want people to call him an environmentalist.

There are some changes that even the biggest and most powerful caveman in the global village can’t stop.

​For Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, pipeline politics begin and end at home. She won't weigh into the B.C. election where the NDP is opposed to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion pipeline.

Canadian corporate executives whose companies together employ more than a million people are urging Prime Minister Trudeau and the premiers to press ahead with climate action and carbon pricing.

In a strange interview with the New York Times, U.S. Presidential-elect Donald Trump appeared to retreat on key pledges to jail Hillary Clinton and pull out of the Paris climate change treaty.

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is announcing a plan to phase out the use of coal-fired electricity by 2030.

Donald Trump's ascendency to President-elect has sparked fears about the ramifications for the global climate agreement, since he campaigned to withdraw from the international treaty.

It is estimated that the agreement will cut the global levels of hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) by 80 to 85 per cent by 2047, the World Resources Institute said in a statement.