greenhouse gas emissions

Walmart and other retail giants import millions of goods on polluting cargo ships.

When an unprecedented heat wave "cooked" the cherries growing at his family's farm in Oliver, B.C., Pravin Dhaliwal tried to see past the financial loss to the passion that spurred him to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.

Not a single government is fully prepared to help deliver a safe climate — despite the fact national emissions have only dropped by one per cent since 2005, write Prof. Thomas Gunton and the Pembina Institute's Isabelle Turcotte.

In a major step against climate change, U.S. President Joe Biden is proposing a return to aggressive Obama-era vehicle mileage standards over five years, according to industry and government officials briefed on the plan.

Pope Francis on Monday, July 26, 2021, decried as criminal the existence of hunger in a world which can produce enough food for all, building on a warning from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that climate change and conflict are a consequence and driver of poverty and income inequality.

Wildfires in B.C. are now pumping more climate pollution into the atmosphere than all fossil fuel burning in the province.

While Canada has stabilized its fossil fuel emissions at home, it is also exporting more emissions than ever before, writes Ecojustice lawyer Fraser Thomson.

The atmosphere doesn’t discern between carbon emitted from forests and carbon from fossil fuels — but Canada does, writes Jennifer Skene of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

With forest fires raging in the U.S. and Russia and floods devastating parts of Western Europe, environment and energy ministers from the Group of 20 industrialized countries gathered on Thursday, July 22, 2021, for two days of talks ahead of November’s crucial climate change conference.

The C.D. Howe Institute says 70 to 75 per cent of Canadian passenger auto sales will have to be zero-emission vehicles by 2030 in order to achieve the federal government's emissions targets.

Saskatchewan and Ottawa have disagreed for some years over the Liberal government's approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

The recent heat waves and fires sweeping Canada illustrate that the skeletons in the closets of Exxon and all fossil fuel companies have proven more than metaphorical, writes columnist Jesse Firempong.

The media giant responsible for sowing doubt about the climate crisis is launching a 24-hour weather news channel.

The co-chair of an expert panel designed to advise Canada on how to reach net-zero emissions says it is exploring the idea of creating budgets for greenhouse gas emissions.