
Levelling the Energy Playing Field is a Climate Necessity
Too many people are consuming more than Earth’s systems can replenish. But while population growth…
Too many people are consuming more than Earth’s systems can replenish. But while population growth…
On July 6, the world’s average temperature was the hottest ever recorded, at 17.23 C. That…
In 1989, I did a radio series for CBC called It’s a Matter of Survival. It…
Photo Credit: Bob Hunter.org Robert Lorne Hunter was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author, and politician…
Urge the Canadian government to end the commercial seal hunt and issue emergency directives to…
Earth Month is here and with it a whole bunch of exciting stuff is happening…
Human activities affect the Ocean in different ways, the same Ocean that provides us goods…
A South Tyneside Council-led project aims to strengthen North Eastern coastlines and communities in the…
The human population just reached eight billion! Does it matter? Our numbers have quadrupled in…
This summer, a Fortis BC booth at a Vancouver farmers market displayed the slogan, “Natural…
Researchers only began to understand the “diel migration” a few decades ago. It’s “the largest…
Near the end of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns…
The Riverhurst Ferry, which transports vehicles across the South Saskatchewan River northwest of Moose Jaw,…
The longer we put off seriously addressing climate disruption’s causes, the more we’ll have to…
Over the past year, we’ve become increasingly aware of the disastrous impacts of climate change…
It’s truly heartwarming to hear stories of young people taking action to protect and restore our oceans. Jeremy Lynch, an 11-year-old from British Columbia, and his Cards…
Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker Jill Heinerth shares stories from her…
We recently wrote that the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report contained little we didn’t…
There’s little in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report that we didn’t already…
In 1970, to make the world safer from humanity’s worst self-destructive impulses, most nations joined…
John Englander joins Dive In with Liz and Sylvia. John is a sea-level rise and…
“Can you turn off the cameras” Seaspiracy by Netflix investigates the global fishing industry, debating…
Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions is critical to avoiding increasing climate change impacts. Doing so…
There’s truth to the saying, “Think globally, act locally.” To resolve a planetary crisis like…
Another year, another record. Even with a global seven per cent drop in fossil fuel…
Marking the momentum on ocean climate action and setting the agenda for progress at COP26.…
The following is adapted from The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (Greystone Books), a book…
This project aims to change students’ behavior and societies’ mindset concerning climate change and environmental…
“Under Thin Ice”, the documentary from explorers, Jill Heinerth and Mario Cyr, has won a…
I’m fortunate. This slowdown is giving me time with my grandchildren who are with me,…
UK Specialist Dive Tour Operator Diverse Travel is now a ‘Climate Aware’ company, partnering with…
Under Western legal systems, the concept of “personhood” includes rights, powers, duties and liabilities. In many countries, corporations are recognized as having legal “personhood” and accompanying rights as well
Climate-wise connectivity looks at a number of strategies for conservation planning amid the climate crisis, as emergent ecosystems appear.
Let’s hope 2020 marks the start of a year and decade when we finally take…
With easily accessible gas and oil deposits becoming depleted, companies have turned to fracking to extract it from shale formations. This involves drilling deep, often horizontal wells and pumping large amounts of pressurized water, sand and chemicals into them to fracture rock and release gas or oil.
Ecojustice will see the Ford government in court today, April 1, for its gutting of Ontario’s cap and trade program in July 2018 with no public consultation.
Too many adults become complacent, unwilling to even imagine making sacrifices for their children and grandchildren — even though many changes required to bring emissions and warming under control would confer numerous benefits, from healthier diets to reduced pollution to greater employment and economic opportunities in clean energy.
In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings…
Global warming isn’t a partisan issue — or it shouldn’t be. The many experts issuing…
When faced with conclusive evidence of a major threat to citizens, a true leader would…
Canadian climate change opinion is polarized, and research shows the divide is widening. The greatest predictor…
As the U.S. administration denies or downplays climate science, some more sensible Americans have been rewarded for developing climate solutions. Economists William Nordhaus and Paul Romer recently won the Nobel
WWF-New Zealand says that today’s new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the…
UPDATE 09/12/2018: Hours after we filed the lawsuit, the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks…
Over the past few months, heat records have broken worldwide. In early July, the temperature in Ouargla, Algeria, reached 51.3 C, the highest ever recorded in Africa! Temperatures in the eastern and southwestern United States and southeastern Canada have also hit record highs. In Montreal, people sweltered under temperatures of 36.6 C, the highest ever recorded there, as well as record-breaking extreme midnight heat and humidity, an unpleasant experience shared by people in Ottawa. Dozens of people have died from heat-related causes in Quebec alone.