Climate Change

26/06/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
New Orleans flood - Hunter King/Twitter

June 25, 2021

Dangerous climate thresholds that will fundamentally reshape life on Earth “are closer than once thought” and will create unavoidable, dire consequences in the short term, even if humanity gets greenhouse gases under control, according to a leaked draft of an upcoming United Nations science report obtained earlier this week by Agence France-Presse.

26/06/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix

June 25, 2021

Microtargeting moderate Republicans with climate action messages tweaked to appeal to conservative values could be effective at winning support for a fossil-free world, according to a study just published in the journal Nature.

25/06/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Last week, the Terra Nova FPSO had new life breathed into it, raising questions about a just transition for oil workers. Photo from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador / Facebook

June 25th 2021

An overwhelming majority of residents in Newfoundland and Labrador want to see a transition away from fossil fuels, yet the province is handing over hundreds of millions of dollars to the struggling industry. That contradiction has national implications, raising questions among experts and politicians about what a just transition might look like.

25/06/21
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
Environmental organization DogwoodBC put up a billboard at the Vancouver intersection of Main Street and Second Avenue to raise awareness about BC’s fossil fuel subsidies and the upcoming provincial review of its royalties. Photo by Michelle Gamage.

June 25, 2021

Government says its upcoming royalty review will ensure ‘a fair return on our resources.’

25/06/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Canada will not meet its 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets without major changes, warns the Parliamentary Budget Office. Photo by Bigstock

June 24th 2021

Canada will not meet its 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets without dramatically scaling up new technologies that the Parliamentary Budget Office warns could be “prohibitively expensive” in a sobering new report.

24/06/21
Author: 
Maanvi Singh
A section of Lake Oroville that is normally underwater lies dry and cracked under the California sun. Photograph: Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

18 Jun 2021 

Researchers had long forewarned of this crisis and now they’re seeing their studies and models become real life

The heatwave gripping the US west is simultaneously breaking hundreds of temperature records, exacerbating a historic drought and priming the landscape for a summer and fall of extreme wildfire.

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