B.C. company sucking carbon from air, making fuel
It sounds like spinning straw into gold: suck carbon dioxide from the air where it's contributing to climate change and turn it into fuel for cars, trucks and jets.
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For 400 months in a row, our planet has been unusually hot
Our overheating planet just reached another staggering — maybe even astronomical — new milestone.
Video: How sprinkling sand might slow Arctic ice melt
In a recent article, a team led by Dr. Leslie Field was up in Alaska spreading sand on a frozen lake. The researchers are hoping to find a way to stop sea ice from melting. Could this actually work?
No province asks to use federal carbon pricing system by deadline
No province has yet shown interest in signing on to the federal government's carbon pricing system instead of creating their own, potentially setting up a log jam for Ottawa to meet its deadline for every province to have a $20 a tonne price on pollution by Jan. 1.
Hotting up: how climate change could swallow Louisiana's Tabasco island
With thousands of square miles of land already lost along the coast, Avery Island, home of the famed Tabasco hot sauce, is under threat
Norwegian technology employs 'artificial magma' to stifle Alberta gas well leaks
New technologies employing brute force as well as artificial volcanic action are being developed to better seal thousands of inactive oil and gas wells in Canada that are leaking methane, a greenhouse gas with an outsized impact on global warming.
Judge holds climate change class in suits against big oil
A federal judge presiding over lawsuits that accuse big oil companies of lying about global warming to protect their profits is turning his courtroom into a classroom in what could be the first hearing to study the science of climate change.
Don't blame God or nature. This is our fault
Empowered by fossil fuel–driven technology, a rapidly growing human population and an insatiable demand for constant growth, our species is responsible for the calamitous consequences.
McKenna says countries agreed to prevent half a degree of warming
An amendment to the Montreal Protocol has been signed that will lower the levels of a type of greenhouse gas that warms the planet even more quickly than carbon dioxide, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017.
Sea level maps show Canada's coastal communities in race against time
From the slow-paced, tree-lined streets of downtown Charlottetown to the modern, western architecture of metro Vancouver, Canada's urban waterfronts are a beacon for condo developers, tourists and everyone in between.
EPA to hold hearing on climate plan repeal in West Virginia
The Trump administration announced on Thursday, November 3, 2017, it will hold a public hearing in West Virginia on its plan to nullify an Obama-era plan to limit planet-warming carbon emissions. The state is economically dependent on coal mining.
Canada not walking the walk on cutting greenhouse gas emissions: OECD leader
To an international diplomat, the irony is painful — the country that promised action on climate change is falling behind while the country that has spurned a major treaty on the issue is making progress.
Government for the people, not fossil fuel corporations
Corporations can’t vote, but by putting enormous amounts of money into campaigns and lobbying, they can hijack the political agenda.That’s the case with the fossil fuel industry — the most profitable in human history, writes scientist David Suzuki.
GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses
A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year.
Nova Scotia vineyards flourish, for now, as temperatures grow warmer
The skies have been brilliant blue in Nova Scotia wine country this October, the vines heavy with grapes, and winemakers like Sean Sears are seeing crops they could only vaguely hope for in the past.