White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’
Nasa cuts contract that convened USGCRP, which released assessments impacting environmental decision-making
climate crisis
US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive
Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
The American beef Industry understood its climate impact decades ago
New research finds the industry’s campaigns to confuse the public about beef’s climate impact go back longer than previously recognized.
US withdraws from fund that compensates poorer countries for global heating
Trump pulls out of Cop28 loss and damage deal that recognises harms done by richer, polluting economies to vulnerable nations
Total collapse of vital Atlantic currents unlikely this century, study finds
Climate scientists caution, however, that even weakened currents would cause profound harm to humanity
Climate research under fire from the pro-fossil fuel Trump administration
The US government is withdrawing grants and other support for research that even references the climate crisis, academics have said, amid Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg upon environmental regulations and clean-energy development.
World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study
Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets
How the meat-loving Danes moved toward 'insanely tasty green food’
Agreement between farmers, politicians and environmental groups led to a €170m action fund for plant based food
‘The world order could start to evolve from the Arctic’: Trump, thin ice and the fight for the Northwest Passage
While the US president seems hellbent on securing Greenland, local experts believe that controlling the potentially lucrative shipping route will be no mean feat.
Will Quebec toss out environmental progress over tariffs?
Quebec must stay the course on its climate efforts and not be deterred by threats of U.S. tariffs, says a council of environmental, health and advocacy groups.
How Trump’s day one orders reveal a White House for big oil
From LNG to drilling in Alaska, here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s energy and climate executive orders
‘It’s ironic’: how climate crisis is driving Trump push on Greenland and Panama
What the president-elect calls a ‘giant hoax’ is changing the strategic calculus in the Arctic and for the Panama canal
Skate the Rideau Canal… while you still can
Climate change may have put Ottawa's historic Rideau Canal on life support.
Feds invest $117 million to protect drinking water on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast
A new large-scale reservoir project in Chapman Creek watershed is getting millions in federal funds as climate change causes a string of severe summer droughts and stringent water bans on the southern B.C. coast.