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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.

Xie, 74, retired in December, and Kerry recently announced that he’s stepping down soon.

International climate talks turned to a power game on Friday as dozens of world leaders including the Saudi crown prince and India's prime minister were to speak, but two of the world's most powerful men — President Joe Biden of the U.S. and China's President Xi Jinping — were glaringly absent.

Canadian liquefied natural gas projects looking to fill gaps in the global market left by the absence of Russian gas may run into more challenging conditions than expected, industry experts have told a global conference in Vancouver.

After all the talking, time for tangible solutions?

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry urged the world to be “very skeptical” about claims from oil and gas producers that emerging technology soon will allow people to adequately capture the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by their cars, planes and businesses.

Russia's Gazprom is increasing gas supplies to China and expects soon to reach the maximum planned level through a Siberian pipeline, its chairman said Wednesday, highlighting Beijing's importance as his country's top export market in the face of Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.

Joe Biden's last official visit to Canada came with a palpable sense of foreboding.

The level of caution Canadian institutions must now take when dealing with China was not top of mind when the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation accepted a pledge from a Chinese billionaire, says the former head of the charitable organization.

A Spanish civil rights group says Vancouver has at least one secret police station operated by Chinese authorities. 

China's zero-COVID lockdowns have been linked to a rare wave of protests across the country in recent weeks, and immigration industry experts say the strict pandemic rules are also fuelling a surge in requests to live in Canada.

A major UN conference on biodiversity will get underway in Montreal on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, with a lofty goal to get every country to agree to protect almost one-third of the world's land and oceans before the end of this decade. 

A Global Affairs Canada official says the department has called in China's ambassador numerous times over allegations that secret police stations are targeting that country's diaspora in Canada.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says everyone in China should be allowed to express themselves amid Beijing's crackdown on COVID-19. He also says an Ottawa university should not have barred reporters from filming China's ambassador this week.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered his most detailed explanation yet on Wednesday, November 23, 2022, about what kind of "interference" he brought up with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a meeting earlier this month.