Ecology/Environment

22/04/25
Author: 
Damian Carrington
A global survey of 130,000 people across 125 nations found a 'silent majority' in every country thinks their national government should be doing more to fight the climate crisis. Photo by the Province of British Columbia/Flickr

Apr. 22, 2025

An overwhelming majority among the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis, but they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research has shown.

Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say.

21/04/25
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Apr. 14, 2025

Hotter seas supercharge storms and destroy critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs

The climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs.

05/04/25
Author: 
Andrew Kurjata
The Maran Gas Roxana LNG carrier navigates through the Douglas Channel to Kitimat, B.C., on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (LNG Canada

Apr. 3, 2025

LNG Canada is 'largest single private sector investment' in Canadian history, government says

A 204-metre tanker ship has arrived on B.C.'s North Coast, making it the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier to arrive in Kitimat, as a major energy export project prepares to come online.

The Maran Gas Roxana, sailing under the flag of Greece, made its way through the Douglas Channel Wednesday, carrying a load of LNG that will be used for equipment testing at the LNG Canada site.

24/03/25
Author: 
Tom Perkins in Detroit
Lake Michigan in Chicago. The vital lakes provide drinking water to more than 40 million people in the US and Canada. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Mar. 18, 2025

Advocates warn firings and funding freezes already risk poisoning drinking water and decimating fish population

Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s attacks on federal agencies and funding freezes will be “cataclysmic” for the environment of the sensitive Great Lakes region if not reversed, industry and environmental advocates in the region warn.

24/03/25
Author: 
Brandi Morin
The mountains around Las Pampas. | Photo by Ian Willms

Feb. 27, 2025

Canada has finalized negotiations on a free trade deal with Ecuador, but claimed human rights protections ring hollow in light of alleged state repression

Photos by Ian Willms

17/03/25
Author: 
Zoë Yunker
BC’s budget documents show the province anticipates a 60 per cent revenue jump from gas, thanks to rising prices and an 11 per cent increase in fracking due to demand from LNG Canada’s anticipated start this year. Photo via LNG Canada.

Mar. 11, 2025

As resource extraction intensifies, environmental assessments have been cut, says advocate.

16/03/25
Author: 
Taylor C. Noakes
Ads delivered in St. Catharines and Thorold, Ont. on Meta platforms. Images compiled by Rory White.

Mar. 7, 2025

In recent years Canadians have been regularly bombarded by a very specific kind of advertisement that claims to represent grassroots interests and opposes any government effort to enforce environmental regulations. They’re the creations of third party advertisers, often little more than an arm's length away from conservative parties and the fossil fuel sector, and are perhaps the single biggest direct source of environmental disinformation in Canada.

16/03/25
Author: 
Brett Wilkins
Demonstrators rally against the Trump administration policies that are endangering clean air and water on February 15, 2025 in Detroit. (Photo: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Mar. 12, 2025

"The Trump administration is trying to roll back decades of critical health and safety regulations that have saved millions of lives and are all that's standing between us and runaway climate change," said one campaigner.

While U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin boasted Wednesday of canceling billions of dollars worth of green grants, considering the rollback of dozens of regulations, and shutting down every environmental justice office nationwide, critics warned the moves will have dire consequences for people and the planet.

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