The world’s axis of rotation has shifted. America is no longer able to provide leadership in global discourse and guidance. US President Donald Trump has effectively sidelined America. China’s hard-earned, multi-decade focus on economic success and global acquisition of resources and critical minerals has accelerated its geopolitical ascendance.
The global climate emergency is no longer a distant warning – it is an unfolding catastrophe. Longer heatwaves, recurring cyclones, changing rainfall patterns, and rising sea levels are already reshaping lives across South Asia. A UN report notes that over the past 50 years, 130,000 lives in India have been lost due to extreme weather events. Between 2001 and 2019 alone, it is estimated that more than 20,000 people died from heatwaves – though the real figure is likely much higher.
As oil and gas companies drill and frack more wells in British Columbia than ever, they are using record quantities of water while frequently not paying the province for that resource, a new report warns.
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A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge
The ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem.
Eleventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world.
CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen.
Raw log exports, capital flight and shuttered mills signal the fall of BC’s forestry sector.
The provincial Conservatives wasted no time calling for Forests Minister Ravi Parmar’s head this week after Domtar announced it would soon shutter its Crofton pulp mill.
Canadian lentils are exposing simmering tensions between Carney's European trade ambitions and his government's proposal to eliminate a key part of Canada's pesticide risk assessment, observers say.
