Unceeded Kwantlen, Katzie, and Coast Salish territory (Fraser Heights, Surrey, BC). From 10am today, Hummingbird Land Defenders will use their bodies to block tree cutting for the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline. The women wish to protect the mature forest and seven grand cedars, in the North Slope Buffer Park.
A barrage of new data shows just how bad Facebook's climate misinformation problem is, and how the company profits from it.
As world leaders at COP26 in Glasgow try to negotiate the drastic and urgent action needed to avoid total climate catastrophe, a trio of new reports shows that work is being directly undermined by Facebook’s inability to prevent toxic misinformation about climate change from pervading its platform.
Leaders at the COP26 summit have no intention of tackling the growing environmental impacts caused by their 'defence' spending
orld leaders gathered in Glasgow last week for the COP26 summit in a bid to demonstrate how they are belatedly getting to grips with the climate crisis. Agreements to protect forests, cut carbon and methane emissions and promote green tech are all being hammered out in front of a watching world.
The Unist'ot'en Village and their neighbours at Gidmet'en Checkpoint are both calling for supporters who can come out and spend multiple weeks or months on the territory.
This is a crisis that cannot be solved by ‘positive messaging’. The only thing that will help is action from world leaders
If you are anything like me, you think of the climate emergency a lot. Possibly every waking hour. Perhaps you experience the psychological tension caused by feeling trapped between the truth of climate and ecological destruction on the one hand and inaction from world leaders on the other. I feel this tension myself, and as a parent and climate activist, I see it affecting young people especially hard.
Glasgow, Scotland – Today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau identified the biggest climate challenge for Canada but failed to come up with the right solution. Focusing on emissions from oil and gas production but not production itself will allow oil and gas companies to keep putting forward false solutions, such as carbon capture and storage, fossil-based hydrogen, and far-off net zero plans, all while pumping out more and more atmosphere-destroying fossil fuels.
Jeremy Allingham heads to Johnston Heights Secondary School to ask students there about what's needed on climate change. And then Marina Melanidis speaks with Stephen Quinn about her frustration with COP26 delegates.
