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Climate Solutions Reporting

The Climate Solutions Reporting Project is a powerful educational force designed to reshape how we understand our response to the climate crisis. This public education initiative doesn't just report on climate change — it teaches through story, illuminating the extraordinary human ingenuity rising to meet our greatest challenge.   Read more about the project here.  

617 Articles

How a Vancouver advocate tells the story of climate change

Chloe Fraser, a 23-year-old Vancouver writer, was named a top environmentalist under 25 for her accredited university course that teaches participants about the power of stories to motivate engagement in climate issues. 
Opinion
  • Profile photo of Patricia Lane
  • Profile photo of Chloë Fraser
Youth climate action
By
  • Patricia Lane
  • Chloë Fraser
  • Opinion
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 12th 2024

Research is clear — as smog recedes, the oceans get hotter

The decline in smog-causing aerosol particles resulting from China's ambitious cleanup efforts are an unlikely culprit for recent extreme heat waves in the Pacific. Scientists are grappling with the fact that reducing such pollution, while essential for public health, is also heating the atmosphere.
Race Against Climate Change
By
  • Fred Pearce
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 12th 2024

Protection for spotted owl unreasonably delayed, says judge

A federal judge says it's "difficult to fathom" how it could be reasonable for Canada's environment minister to take more than eight months before recommending an emergency protection order for B. C.'s northern spotted owl.
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  • The Canadian Press
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 11th 2024

After three decades of labour, non-profit finds much to love

Founded in 1992 as a response to the toxic Sydney tar ponds, the Atlantic Coastal Action Program has dedicated itself to sustaining and restoring watersheds and building habitat for the wildlife that thrives there. Their work is yielding results.
Race Against Climate Change
By
  • Alison Auld
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 10th 2024

Farmed fish top number caught in wild for first time, UN finds

The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world's waters for the first time ever, the United Nations reported Friday.
By
  • Associated Press
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 7th 2024

How new federal climate funding will help communities

Building better dykes to prevent flooding, constructing fire breaks to slow wildfires, and creating more cooling centres for people — these projects could be among those to soon benefit from over half a billion dollars in funding provided by the federal government this week to help Canadian communities adapt to climate change.
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 6th 2024

Entrepreneur hopes to harness homegrown power

Nova Scotia's Dan Roscoe started as a renewables investor, but now he's at the head of a local company with plans for localized energy generation that he sees as key to the energy transition.
Race Against Climate Change
By
  • Philip Moscovitch
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 4th 2024

As energy costs rise, provinces urgently seek solutions

A new report from Nova Scotia — the province with the highest percentage of people experiencing energy poverty in Canada — suggests urgent solutions to help those struggling to pay their energy bills, while measures in Ontario have made them more affordable for some.
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 4th 2024

Recyclables fill Ontario dumps like nowhere else in Canada

Even though a recent Abacus poll confirmed that more than 80 per cent of Ontarians want to see an expanded deposit-return program for non-alcoholic beverage containers in the province, an estimated 1.7 billion containers are still ending up in landfills, incinerators or as litter. Advocates want to change that.
By
  • Abdul Matin Sarfraz
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 4th 2024

In Halifax, green roofs net great results

Among their benefits, green roofs can both offset flooding and help to moderate temperatures, all while providing a richer and more vibrant skyline.
By
  • Evert Lindquist
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 3rd 2024

Challenges remain, but good news about electric BC Ferries

With a $75-million loan announced last week, BC Ferries will be purchasing its first four ships run only on electric propulsion power.
By
  • Marisa Sittheeamorn
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
May 31st 2024

Innovative programs make Colchester homes cosier — and more climate-friendly

The Nova Scotia municipality’s retrofit programs make normally expensive retrofits far more attainable for homeowners while also lowering the carbon footprints of their homes.
By
  • Allison Lawlor
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
May 30th 2024

MIT spinoff offers a simple way to decarbonize heavy industry

A U.S. federal grant has helped bolster Electrified Thermal Solutions, which is manufacturing a new heat-conducive brick that the company's founders claim will dramatically reduce the fossil fuel needs for heating in heavy industry.
Race Against Climate Change
By
  • Phil McKenna
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
May 28th 2024

An old house still teaches new tricks

Thirteen years after it was built, Middleton’s NSCC living lab home illustrates that passive building design is still the single most important factor in creating an efficient build or renovation.
By
  • Zack Metcalfe
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
May 28th 2024
Shir Gruber at student climate march 2019

Student climate striker still inspiring change

Shir Gruber helped lead the 2019 climate student strikes. Now she has parlayed that experience into a leadership role with Sustainable Youth Canada.
Opinion
  • Profile photo of Patricia Lane
Youth climate action
By
  • Patricia Lane
  • Shir Gruber
  • Opinion
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
May 27th 2024

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