Climate Change

22/10/25
Author: 
Jordan Omstead
People take their dogs out for a quick break under billowing wildfire smoke off Highway 97 north of Buckinghorse River, BC on Friday, May 30, 2025. File photo by The Canadian Press/Nasuna Stuart-Ulin

Oct. 21, 2025

Two new studies are helping to shed light on the extent Canadians feel climate change is impacting their mental health.

A national study published today suggests about 2.3 per cent of people in Canada experience climate change anxiety at a level the authors considered "clinically relevant," causing meaningful distress and disruption in their lives.

22/10/25
Author: 
John Woodside
The head of the new federal government Major Projects Office Dawn Farrell listens as Prime Minister Mark Carney announces five major projects in Edmonton on Sept. 11, 2025. File photo by: Amber Bracken / The Canadian Press

Oct. 22, 2025

The Major Projects Office can’t substantiate its boss’ claim that the Trans Mountain pipeline helps fight climate change. 

22/10/25
Author: 
Umair Irfan
The wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this year were likely the costliest blazes on record. Photo by Getty Images/Vox

Oct. 22, 2025

This story was originally published by Vox and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

The modern age of burning has been ignited by human hands.

22/10/25
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Illustration by: Barry Saxifrage

Oct. 22, 2025

British Columbians might be surprised to learn they are among the world’s most aggressive extractors of climate-destabilizing fossil fuels, per capita — and major projects that are already being built aim to make the province’s contribution much worse. 

Seven charts help tell the story of how we got here.

20/10/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
It is absolutely gut-wrenching but it appears that tropical coral reefs are now beyond their 'tipping point.' Global heating would have to be reduced from today’s temperatures to 1.2C “as fast as possible” in order for coral reefs to survive 'at any meaningful scale,' the scientists say. Photo courtesy: Francesco Ungaro / Pexels

Oct. 20, 2025

There’s a single figure that encapsulates our climate predicament: the amount of carbon dioxide in the sky. It is surging into treacherous new territory and the size of the surge is even more disturbing: it soared by a record amount in 2024.

17/10/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is dealing with two world powers as Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, increasingly restricts critical mineral exports to the US and President Donald Trump, left, takes an interest in BC mining companies. Photo of Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia, Creative Commons licensed. Photo of Mark Carney via Wikimedia. Photo of Xi Jinping via Wikimedia.

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Oct. 16, 2025

Global instability is creating a rush for critical minerals, which are useful for green energy. And the military.

Last week, Vancouver-based Trilogy Metals announced that it had signed a deal with the U.S. Department of War.

12/10/25
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Northeastern BC is experiencing drought in rivers such as the Kiskatinaw. Despite this, data shows the fracking industry is drawing more and more water every year. Photo by Don Hoffman.

Oct. 9, 2025

A report today from Stand.earth shows the industry’s water use increased 50 per cent in 2024.

s drought in British Columbia’s Peace River region leads to massive wildfires and the City of Dawson Creek scrambles to find a new water source, a report released today concludes that water use by the region’s fracking industry shot up a record 50 per cent last year.

11/10/25
Author: 
Franz Garnreiter
Global GDP Source: Author’s own illustration, based on long-term OECD analysis.

Chart Source: Author’s own illustration, based on long-term OECD analysis.

  Sept. 30, 2025 

Within a historically short period, capitalist society has generated enormous wealth but also caused profound ecological degradation and threats to survival. Yet the capitalist market economy is incapable of resolving the problems it has created or of securing a liveable environment.

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