Canada's accelerating forest carbon crisis
Canada's forests are being logged faster than they are growing back, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage. That's pouring billions of tonnes of CO2 into our rapidly destabilizing climate.
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Canada is a rogue super-emitter
When it comes to climate action, Canada is increasingly out of step with our peers, says columnist Barry Saxifrage.
Canada’s failure to cut emissions is coming back to bite us
Decades of rising emissions are saddling Canadians with ever-steeper climate targets. And columnist Barry Saxifrage has the receipts.
Missing pieces of new climate plan will determine outcomes
Linda Solomon Wood, editor-in-chief of Canada's National Observer, spoke with Cat Abreu, founder of Destination Zero, about Canada's newly released Emissions Reduction Plan.
Canada’s Top 10 emission changes show what’s worked and what’s failed
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, those who fail to learn from their climate polluting history are doomed to repeat it, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage.
Student divestment groups shake things up to get their universities to drop fossil fuels
Students with a youth divestment group at McGill University are staging an unusual protest. They are using an "occupation" to draw extra attention to the school's pension fund investments in fossil fuels.
Atlantic Canada’s pandemic responses, 100 years apart
The influenza pandemic of 1918 is best understood not as a carbon copy of our current circumstance but, rather, a reflection of our present moment in a funhouse mirror.
Wrong-way Canada emitting more while our G7 peers clean up
Canada is the only G7 nation still emitting far above 1990 levels — and we are still heading in the wrong direction, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage.
Canada’s National Observer nominated for prestigious National Newspaper Awards
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Canada’s economy will survive a breakup with fossil fuels: Carbon Tracker’s Mark Campanale
Canadian banks can drop their fossil fuel investments and the economy will survive, says Carbon Tracker founder Mark Campanale, an expert in getting the financial sector on the path to a climate-safe future.
High gas prices? Some Canadians are filling up for under 35 cents a ‘litre’
Columnist Barry Saxifrage breaks down how much it costs right now to power a car with gasoline versus electricity in cities across Canada.
Lab-grown meat’s bloody little secret
These test-tube cells need food to flourish, and researchers found that fetal bovine serum provided the special sauce.
How B.C.’s forests became a carbon-spewing liability
British Columbia's valuable carbon sink is gone. Its forests are hemorrhaging CO2. And the wood harvested from the province is now adding fuel to our climate crisis.
The war profiteers
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Climate snapshot: Driving off the climate cliff in Alberta versus Norway
Same number of new cars. Five times more CO2 to drive them around.