About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority
The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89% Project – and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read more
An overwhelming majority among the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis, but they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research has shown.
Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say.
Hotter seas supercharge storms and destroy critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs
The climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs.
‘When we need to urgently build big things we have to do it ourselves,’ Vancouver-based author Seth Klein tells DeSmog.
U.S. President Donald Trump continues to upend global financial markets, with his chaotic tariff announcements last week plunging the Dow almost 4,000 points in two days and wiping out more than $4.8 trillion in value on the S&P 500.
Municipal politicians across Canada have written a letter to the five main federal party leaders calling for climate-related actions they say would improve the country's resilience to environmental calamities.
LNG Canada is 'largest single private sector investment' in Canadian history, government says
A 204-metre tanker ship has arrived on B.C.'s North Coast, making it the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier to arrive in Kitimat, as a major energy export project prepares to come online.
The Maran Gas Roxana, sailing under the flag of Greece, made its way through the Douglas Channel Wednesday, carrying a load of LNG that will be used for equipment testing at the LNG Canada site.
Instead of turning towards nationalism, in the face of rising fascism, we should turn to each other and the planet.
Our neighbours across the colonial border are grappling with what is shaping up to be a United States dictatorship, with outsized influence from a syndicate of the world’s richest men. With a federal election around the corner and geopolitical tensions rising across the world, this is a moment for Canada to dive into audacious changes that can unite us all through visionary climate justice rather than rugged individualism and nationalism.
The fossil fuel industry’s call to roll back environmental policy at a time of economic crisis will hurt Canadians in the long run, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the executives of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies Thursday.