Ecology/Environment

24/05/26
Author: 
Nessie Nankivell
Open pit mine and US flag

May 22, 2026

By fast-tracking critical minerals, Canada is not simply building a green economy. It is being further integrated into the U.S. war industry

Even as Prime Minister Mark Carney touts his plans to protect Canada’s economic sovereignty, the country’s critical minerals are making their way into U.S. weapons. 

13/05/26
Author: 
Robert Hunziker
Image courtesy of the Fossil Fuel Treaty.

May 8, 2026

The Santa Marta Conference – Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels – An energetic multi-nation well-organized effort to get off fossil fuels with the underlying motto: “Make Science Great Again”

This article discusses this exciting new approach to hopefully mitigate climate change as well a discussion of the steep difficulty of overcoming the “monumental challenge” already extant.

13/04/26
Author: 
David Spratt, first published at Pearls&Irritations
Firefighters

Apr. 8, 2026

Has climate policy-making gone right off the rails? That question pops into my head with increasing frequency these days, most recently when I glanced at a Guardian headline‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3°C of global heating.

06/04/26
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Federal Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon addresses members of the media in the House of Commons foyer. File photo by: Natasha Bulowski / Canada's National Observer

Apr. 6, 2026

AI Minister Evan Solomon has met with energy and mining companies about the environmental impacts of AI infrastructure, but no environmental organizations, according to documents tabled in the House of Commons.

23/03/26
Author: 
Chris Hatch
People walk the streets of Nice, France in August 2016. Scientists are predicting the arrival of an El Niño eclipsing that which helped drive record high heat and extreme weather in 2024 — possibly even rivalling the El Niño of 2015 and 2016. The difference: the world has grown a lot hotter. Photo courtesy: Jonas Weckschmied / Unsplash

Mar. 23, 2026

“Not now, El Niño,” pleads the astrophysicist-turned climate scientist, Kate Marvel. On top of the fossil fuel crisis and conflicts derailing the world, it appears that Mother Nature is about to provide the umpteenth lesson that we mess with the grand cycles of the Earth to our peril.

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