Climate Change

20/03/23
Author: 
June Sekera
According to the IPCC’s Working Group III report, carbon capture is one of the least-effective, most-expensive climate change mitigation options on Earth. Photo by Shutterstock

"According to the IPCC’s Working Group III report, carbon capture is one of the least-effective, most-expensive climate change mitigation options on Earth."

Mar. 20, 2023

This week, oil and gas lobbyists are gearing up for a busy few days. Today, the IPCC — the UN experts on climate science — is publishing a new report on the impact of global warming and our best options to slow it down.

20/03/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Vancouverites protesting in 2018 after Trudeau pledged $4.5 billion to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The public cost has leapt to $30.9 billion. Photo by Darryl Dyck via The Canadian Press.

Mar. 20, 2023

Shameless spin can’t excuse the burgeoning boondoggle and ‘global warming machine’ called TMX.

20/03/23
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
Deep-sea pink sea urchins aggregate to feed on decaying seaweed. To adapt to climate change, they’ve been expanding their habitat by an average of 3.5 metres per year. Photo by Ocean Networks Canada/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Mar. 17, 2023

But what happens when there’s nowhere left to go?

Species are heading up steep slopes on land and underwater to escape the effects of climate change.

20/03/23
Author: 
Al Shaw, Irena Hwang and Caroline Chen
The next pandemic could emerge from the edges around these patches, where wildlife and humans mix.

Mar. 16, 2023

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19/03/23
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Behrat/Wikimedia Commons

Mar. 14, 2023

A Honolulu company is helping low-income families in Hawaii reduce energy costs while contributing to a more sustainable grid—by linking household water heaters to create a virtual power plant, effectively repurposing the ubiquitous appliances into grid batteries.

19/03/23
Author: 
The Editorial Board
Burnaby Now: Construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.Trans Mountain

Canada's big-business newspaper considers squandering $31 billion (which doesn't include lots of large related expenses like policing services) as necessary, "given Canadian political realities." The big-talk-no-action BC NDP could have changed those realities.      - Gene McGuckin

17/03/23
Author: 
The Editorial Board
Rebecca Chew/The New York Times

'In the long term, the best guarantee of American security has always been American prosperity and engagement with the rest of the world.'   And Canada?

Mar. 11, 2023

America’s increasingly confrontational posture toward China is a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy that warrants greater scrutiny and debate.

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