climate change

Pandemic lockdowns left Canadian cars sitting idle in driveways and garages for weeks on end last year

Last week, the Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition event saw hundreds of participants from across the globe convene in Milan for three days.

Clean hydrogen could replace fossil fuels for almost everything. But should it?

Doug Ford’s speech on Monday to mark the start of a new legislative session in Ontario touched on economic growth but did not mention education, child care or climate change.

Because rural communities have fewer resources, disasters often hit harder and linger longer.

Even as we mourn the loss of life due to the climate crisis, we’re out hunting for more oil and gas, building more pipelines and fighting over carbon taxes, writes pediatrician and science writer Dr. Elaine Blacklock.

Youth activists in major cities in Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Nigeria, Uganda, Togo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo staged protests, delivered petitions to leaders, and dropped banners protesting climate change.

An international conference aimed at tackling hunger and reducing the environmental impact of our food could end up making the situation worse, including in Canada, a coalition of farmers, activists, and scholars are warning. 

Climate protesters blocked the entrance to Britain's busiest ferry port on Friday, September 24, 2021, to highlight the climate crisis and fuel poverty in the U.K.

"Avoided deforestation" projects do not represent genuine abatement, say researchers, who liken the Coalition policy to "cheap tricks and hot air."

At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the UN’s most powerful body to do more to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all UN peacekeeping operations.

Two years ago environment groups applauded the federal election results as a win after almost two in every three voters picked a party with a clear commitment to combating climate change.

In what officials call a key step to combat climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is sharply limiting domestic production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners.

Although deforestation may seem like a problem far away from cities, more than 50 mayors from around the world are assuring us it’s not.

A new study of the American West shows that climate change is driving more days that are hot, dry, and windy — the perfect conditions for deadly wildfires.