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Race Against Climate Change

Race Against Climate Change is at the heart of Canada's National Observer's journalistic mission and coverage. It began with the launch of the publication in 2015. Thousands of articles later, the world continues to warm and the race has intensified. Follow this special report to learn how your country and the world is (or isn't) tackling this enormous challenge. This report is produced in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainability, Education and Action (I-SEA).

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Backlash in bike-friendly Berlin

The centre-right Christian Democratic Union has called for a moratorium on new bicycle lanes, saying “demonizing” cars is the wrong approach. The party tapped into resentment that people in the outskirts of the city feel about the difficulties of driving and parking in many neighbourhoods, and the sense that they were being made to feel bad about owning cars.
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September 6th 2023

As Japan releases Fukushima wastewater into the ocean, a fallout of fear follows

After years of nuclear detonations in the Marshall Islands, fallout and forced relocations of communities began a ripple effect: Many Indigenous Marshallese people who had relied on subsistence farming and fishing for 4,000 years suddenly couldn’t trust the safety of their food, becoming reliant on imported and processed foods. And those were the lucky ones.
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August 31st 2023