Climate

The first complete "scientific health check" shows most global systems are beyond the stable range in which modern civilization emerged.

Incentives provided through the province’s CleanBC’s Better Homes program jumped from $3.6 million in 2020 to about $33.5 million in 2022. Those figures include money for air source heat pumps, upgrades to electricity services, insulation and more. That information isn’t publicly available and was provided to Canada’s National Observer by Ecotrust Canada, which received them through a FOI.

Gas companies in two of Canada's largest provinces are relying on reports with erroneous numbers and deleted information that make natural gas appear more sustainable and cost-effective than it actually is.

The report, released Monday, details Nova Scotia’s accomplishments over the past year, including the largest-ever procurement of renewables, the establishment of an environmental racism panel, which will make recommendations to government, and more.

Newfoundland and Labrador is hinging its financial future on the offshore oil and gas industry, but experts say that future looks murkier after recent news coming from the industry. Here's the breakdown.

Indigenous communities remain on the front lines of the climate crisis, suffering the worst effects of climate disaster and tragedy. Here are two components of Ottawa's national climate adaptation strategy that may help.

Bruce Power CEO Mike Rencheck believes the amount generated for the Saugeen Ojibway Nation will reach anywhere between the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, depending on the marketing and sale of an isotope used to treat cancer.

The strategy includes $1.6 billion over five years to put the measures in place, said Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault. More details on regional implementation are expected in the coming months following more talks between the federal government, provinces and territories.

The outage at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station in New Brunswick was supposed to last 22 days, with five additional days allotted to address issues. It’s now been offline for more than 40 days. NB Power, which owns the station, said it expects the plant will be back online later this week.

Hot Politics host David McKie takes the temperature at a conservative lovefest.

As the new associate director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ B.C. office, Lisa Akinyi May leads the organization’s communications and public engagement and is a member of the management team.

There aren't many movies that take on climate change directly. So support this one. It's a mesmerising documentary, has won awards at Cannes and Sundance and is nominated for an Academy Award. It's from India about one of the results of the man-made crisis and the efforts of a pair of brothers to do something to help.

Five days after Steven Guilbeault was appointed Canada's environment minister in October 2021, he headed to Scotland for the annual United Nations climate talks being held in Glasgow.

Some are calling the weather set to hit Ontario over the holidays the storm of the century. But this is just one of the many ‘storms of the century’ to hit Canada in the last few decades, says one expert.

As countries gather in Montreal to hammer out a new deal to protect global biodiversity, farms like the Coens' could offer a blueprint for how we produce food in the future. Agriculture is the largest driver of biodiversity loss worldwide, with farming identified by the United Nations as a threat to 86 per cent of species at risk of extinction.