Rochelle Baker joins Canada's National Observer as a reporter, thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative of the Government of Canada. Rochelle has worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer in BC's Lower Mainland for over 7 years.
Our oceans are the unsung heroes of climate sequestration and must be factored into international global warming strategies and targets at COP26 or the globe is sunk, says a Canadian scientist.
The village of Old Crow, 120 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, was quiet for the first time in decades, as the nation brought its solar energy micro-grid online, said Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm at an official COP26 side event Thursday.
There is a strong alignment between clean energy project development and the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), said Eryn Stewart, the managing director of the non-profit Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE).
The Global North is largely responsible for the climate crisis, but the Global South weathers the worst impacts and is left to come up with solutions, say climate justice and human rights activists attending COP26 in Glasgow.
Two children, aged 10 and 12, suspended themselves from a bridge high above the Clyde River near the COP26 summit in Glasgow on Monday afternoon to protest global leaders lack of action on the climate crisis.
The climate movement is shaking off the shackles of the pandemic, readying for disruption, and rallying to hold world leaders to account at the COP26 conference in Glasgow.
Many of Canada's marine protected areas are weakly protected and vulnerable to threats from extraction industries, trawling, or dumping despite Canada's ambitious conservation goals as it heads to COP26.
Tapping into the West Coast’s tidal waters is a highly predictable source of renewable energy that when channelled into a micro-grid might help shift remote communities off dirty diesel to generate electricity.
Author Ruth Ozeki talks about her new work, The Book of Form and Emptiness, which explores grief, love, the nebulous boundaries between madness and creativity, and the complicated relationship humans have with things.
At the current UN summit aiming to pull biodiversity back from the brink, global leaders emphasized conserving nature is vital to achieving climate targets set at COP26.
