Climate Change

25/09/23
Author: 
Abdul Matin Sarfraz
Stop Sprawl Durham protesters in Pickering, Ont. on Aug. 13, 2023. (Simon Sheehan/CP24)

Further: "This decision and announcement came after nearly a year of reporting from The Narwhal and the Toronto Star, which exposed Ford’s plan to open up the Greenbelt and fill the pockets of his developer buddies." -  The Maple Newsletter - Sept. 25/23

Sept. 22, 2023

25/09/23
Author: 
Fiona Harvey
Solar radiation management involves attempting to reduce the amount of sunlight striking the Earth’s surface. Photo by Alan Levine/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Sept. 25, 2023

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

25/09/23
Author: 
Deborah Campbell
Award-winning author Erica Gies: ‘So much of our development has been about subverting water’s natural pathways and habits.’ Photo via Erica Gies website.

Sept. 25, 2023

To withstand drought and deluge, an H2O how-to from Erica Gies, author of ‘Water Always Wins.’ She speaks at UVic on Oct. 3.

24/09/23
Author: 
Scott Dance
City council employees distribute bottles of water to combat a heat wave in São Paulo on Sept. 20. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Sept. 23, 2023 

After months of record planetary warmth, temperatures have become even more abnormal in recent weeks — briefly averaging close to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, a global warming threshold leaders are seeking to avoid.

"I thought we had seen exceptional temperatures back in July," said Zeke Hausfather, climate research lead for the payment company Stripe. "What we've seen this week is well above that."

24/09/23
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
For months, Vancouver's road signs have been defaced by conspiracy theorists plastering them with references to conspiracies about 15-minute cities and the World Economic Forum. Photo by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson/National Observer

Sept. 19, 2023

An inside look at the plot to make climate denial mainstream

Efforts by libertarian conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers to block climate initiatives in the Kootenay region of B.C. are threatening to engulf the province as the loose coalition plots ways to expand its ideology.

23/09/23
Author: 
Primary Author: Mitchell Beer
Refinery - /Piqusels

Sept. 19, 2023

Global oil and gas demand will start to fall before 2030, marking the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era, the International Energy Agency (IEA) declared last week, in an op ed penned by Executive Director Fatih Birol.

23/09/23
Author: 
Rachel Sherrington and Hazel Healy
Credit: Andy Carter

Sept. 21, 2023

We debunk some key concepts that the world’s largest food and farming companies will be using to sway debates at the climate summit.

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai.

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