Climate Solutions Reporting

Climate Solutions Reporting Project produces written stories, podcasts, and newsletters about Canada's action and inaction in fighting global heating, as well as the impact of environmental degradation and solutions on people and communities. We offer these stories free of charge thanks to supporters and collaborators, including individual philanthropists and foundations. Read more about the project here.

536 Articles

Canada’s only underground coal mine is back in business — and emissions rules don’t apply

Nova Scotia's Donkin coal mine reopened this week. But it won't be required to follow federal cap-and-trade rules, meaning greenhouse gas emissions from the site will continue unchecked.

Cloe Logan

September 16th 2022

Investigation: Past safety violations loom large over reopening of Canadian coal mine

More than a dozen roof cave-ins, 152 warnings, 119 compliance orders, 37 administrative penalties and a series of provincial stop-work orders. Nova Scotia's Donkin coal mine reopened this week, begging the question: what has changed?

Cloe Logan

September 15th 2022

Listen and learn. Michael Bartz builds a life on his climate values

But getting to carbon zero is hard. Determined to keep learning, the 34-year-old Albertan started the In Over My Head podcast so we can all benefit from his journey.

Opinion

Youth climate action

Patricia Lane

September 12th 2022

Climate activists looking for help, meet Mackenzie Harris

As the librarian and knowledge translator for the Climate Justice Organizing Hub (Le Hub), this 25-year-old is supporting a richly resourced community of practice for grassroots climate activists across the country.

Opinion

Youth climate action

Patricia Lane

September 6th 2022

Meredith Adler taps into student energy

This 33-year-old is the executive director of Student Energy, which has already supported over 15,000 young people in Canada and 50,000 students in 120 countries to accelerate the fight against climate change.

Opinion

Youth climate action

Patricia Lane

August 29th 2022

Ben Simoni helps steer the way for the Youth Climate Corps

The project is now in its third season in Nelson and has expanded to Cranbrook. The work in wildfire risk reduction, flood control and wetland enhancement is making a real difference.

Opinion

Youth climate action

Patricia Lane

August 22nd 2022

How do you turn seaweed into plastic? Ranah Chavoshi will tell you

This 29-year-old Simon Fraser University master’s student in biological sciences won first place in the 2021 Greater Vancouver YMCA Youth Mean Business Pitch Competition for this concept.

Opinion

Youth climate action

Patricia Lane

August 15th 2022

Chilling without air conditioning

Even though her Ottawa home has AC, by August, Joan Lawrence still hadn’t turned it on even though temperatures have frequently cracked 30 C.

Opinion

One small thing: Taking action in the climate crisis

Becky Rynor

August 9th 2022

Time’s running out on Canada’s reckless, inefficient $8.6-billion Big Oil support

While some industry players rally to benefit from the current energy crisis, Canada must not cave to pressure from oil and gas companies to ramp up production.

Opinion

August 9th 2022

A male worker installs a heat pump outside a home

How to get the most out of the feds’ home retrofit loan program

Homeowners applying for the federal government’s interest-free loans to make energy-efficient renovations should look into provincial and municipal incentives for extra support, one energy-efficiency expert recommends.

Natasha Bulowski

August 8th 2022

Terrell Roulston shares the science behind being the bees’ best friend

During his undergraduate studies at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, this 22-year-old helped discover there are many more bees in Nova Scotia’s salt marshes than previously thought.

Opinion

Youth climate action

Patricia Lane

August 8th 2022

Conservation meets true crime in ‘The Salmon People’

Coming Tuesday, Aug. 9 on iTunes: The Salmon People builds on the success of CNO’s 2021 debut podcast series, Race Against Climate Change, which earned a nomination for Best Climate Solutions Reporting from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. This new collaborative podcast cements CNO’s commitment to telling impactful and creative stories about the climate.

Luke Ottenhof

August 5th 2022

Could lab-grown meat ever be Indigenized?

“Once that land goes, or those ways of eating go, Indigenous food culture goes as well,” says Atlanta Grant, a UBC master's student working on Indigenous food sovereignty.

Kat Eschner

August 2nd 2022

Letter to the U.K. from Canada: We feel your pain

It may be hard to see the connection between heat waves in British Columbia and Britain’s most flammable day since the Second World War, but our world has shrunk, and the 21st-century version is one of close connections and brutal teachings.

Opinion

John Vaillant

July 28th 2022

Canada’s fossil-fuelled sprint away from climate safety

The relentless rise of fossil fuel burning in Canada is leaving climate-safe energy alternatives — and climate hope — far behind. And columnist Barry Saxifrage has the charts to prove it.

Race Against Climate Change

Barry Saxifrage

July 27th 2022