Students with a youth divestment group at McGill University are staging an unusual protest. They are using an "occupation" to draw extra attention to the school's pension fund investments in fossil fuels.
The influenza pandemic of 1918 is best understood not as a carbon copy of our current circumstance but, rather, a reflection of our present moment in a funhouse mirror.
Canadian banks can drop their fossil fuel investments and the economy will survive, says Carbon Tracker founder Mark Campanale, an expert in getting the financial sector on the path to a climate-safe future.
British Columbia's valuable carbon sink is gone. Its forests are hemorrhaging CO2. And the wood harvested from the province is now adding fuel to our climate crisis.
