Why Thomas Clark is turning flies and food waste into face cream
This 29-year-old is disrupting the beauty industry by using oil from flies that consume food waste to make beauty products.
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Climate progress? Someone forgot to tell the atmosphere
Reality check — as the world embarks on a fourth decade of climate meetings and promises, all three major greenhouse gases are accelerating upwards, unchecked. And Canada …
Environmental groups urge federal government not to 'water down' oil and gas emissions cap
As environmental groups urge the federal government to move quickly with an aggressive cap on emissions from the country's oil and gas sector, the industry itself says such a move could actually slow down the sector's own decarbonization efforts.
Emission cuts will hit growth, but costs of inaction much higher, IMF says
IMF says taking swift action to achieve a 25 per cent cut in greenhouse gases by end of the decade will cost less than failing to act.
How carbon emissions got rebranded as ‘pollution’
California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.
Nuclear technology critical to mitigate climate change, says EPA head
Michael Regan, after holding talks with his Japanese counterpart Akihiro Nishimura in Tokyo, told a joint news conference that nuclear energy in their countries plays a role and "the opportunities for advanced nuclear technology will be critical if we’re going to meet our climate goals."
Global heating has brought staggering changes to forests
Trees are advancing into the Arctic tundra and retreating from boreal forests farther south, where stunting and dieoffs are expected.
China and US argue on Twitter about climate
The world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are sparring on Twitter over climate policy, with China questioning whether the U.S. can deliver on the landmark climate legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden this week.
How Canada’s plan to curb farm emissions could make plastic pollution worse
Environmentalists are warning that slow-release nitrogen fertilizers, central to Canada's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on farms, are filling fields with microscopic plastic pollution.
EU countries approve stricter climate rules
European Union countries reached a deal following hard−fought talks that dragged into early on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, to back stricter climate rules that would eliminate carbon emissions from new cars by 2035.
Heat wave, drought raise fears of wildfires in Europe
Extended drought conditions in several Mediterranean countries, a heat wave last week that reached northern Germany and high fuel costs for aircraft needed to fight wildfires have heightened concerns across Europe this summer.
Feds pitch in to rebuild Lytton, B.C., with new fire-resistant buildings
Harjit Sajjan toured the ruins of Lytton, B.C., on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, witnessing the full impact of what a wildfire did to the community when it raced through the village in June last year.
Trust this expert when she says we can’t adapt our way out of climate crisis
Katharine Hayhoe says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilization.
Residents fear rising damage as natural gas expands in Gulf of Mexico
The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: Remnants of cabinets and chunks of pink shower marble lie between dumpsters. She lives in a FEMA trailer out back, her home in shambles more than a year after Hurricane Laura tore through Lake Charles.