Ecology/Environment

A great unravelling: carbon soars, nature falters

20/10/25

Author:

Chris Hatch

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It is absolutely gut-wrenching but it appears that tropical coral reefs are now beyond their 'tipping point.' Global heating would have to be reduced from today’s temperatures to 1.2C “as fast as possible” in order for coral reefs to survive 'at any meaningful scale,' the scientists say. Photo courtesy: Francesco Ungaro / Pexels

Oct. 20, 2025

There’s a single figure that encapsulates our climate predicament: the amount of carbon dioxide in the sky. It is surging into treacherous new territory and the size of the surge is even more disturbing: it soared by a record amount in 2024.

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Fracking’s Water Demand Soared in Drought-Plagued Northeast BC

12/10/25

Author:

Ben Parfitt

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The Tyee

$Northeastern BC is experiencing drought in rivers such as the Kiskatinaw. Despite this, data shows the fracking industry is drawing more and more water every year. Photo by Don Hoffman.$

Oct. 9, 2025

A report today from Stand.earth shows the industry’s water use increased 50 per cent in 2024.

s drought in British Columbia’s Peace River region leads to massive wildfires and the City of Dawson Creek scrambles to find a new water source, a report released today concludes that water use by the region’s fracking industry shot up a record 50 per cent last year.

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Climate Destruction – The Irresponsibility of Capitalist Societies

11/10/25

Author:

Franz Garnreiter

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The Bullet

Global GDP Source: Author’s own illustration, based on long-term OECD analysis.

Chart Source: Author’s own illustration, based on long-term OECD analysis.

Sept. 30, 2025

Within a historically short period, capitalist society has generated enormous wealth but also caused profound ecological degradation and threats to survival. Yet the capitalist market economy is incapable of resolving the problems it has created or of securing a liveable environment.

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Can We Have New Pipelines And Curb Climate Change Too?

07/10/25

Author:

Tom Howell

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CBC Ideas

Website Editor: Is the mainstream waking up? Here is a truly provocative podcast!

Oct. 7, 2025

So... who wants a pipeline?

54 mins

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Ecuador revokes environmental license for Canada's DPM to develop gold project

07/10/25

Author:

Alexandra Valencia

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Reuters

People participate in a protest called by Indigenous, rural and urban groups opposing the Dundee Precious Metals' Loma Larga mining project and demanding the protection of local waters, in Cuenca, Ecuador, September 16, 2025. REUTERS/Maria Fernanda Garcia Purchase Licensing Rights

Oct. 4, 2025

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100,000 Ecuadorians protest Canadian mining project threatening key water source

07/10/25

Author:

Shanna Hanbury

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Mongabay

See also:"Tapirs, hummingbirds and a billion-dollar bedrock of gold: the Ecuador reserve that is now a battlefield over a new mine" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/04/ecuador-cajas-mining-gold-silver-copper-exploitation-paramo-ecosystem-aoe

Sept. 19, 2025

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Wildfire smoke will become deadlier if emissions aren't curbed: study

06/10/25

Author:

Oliver Milman

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National Observer

Wildfire smoke is expected to kill as many as 1.4 million people globally each year by the end of the century if planet-heating emissions are not curbed. A fire engine (343) stopped next to the large Gifford Fire on August 7, 2025. Photo by Los Padres National Forest-US Forest Service/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Oct. 6, 2025

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

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A Drought Emergency Looms in Dawson Creek

03/10/25

Author:

Ben Parfitt

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The Tyee

A section of the Kiskatinaw River running dry just upstream of the old Highway 97 trestle bridge between Fort St. John and Dawson Creek. Photo for The Tyee by Don Hoffmann.

Sept. 26, 2025

Parched, the city has proposed piping water in. And selling it to the very industry some say caused the problem.

After three years of drought, the City of Dawson Creek has reached a dangerous tipping point as the Kiskatinaw River, its only drinking water source, falls to levels never before seen.

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Municipal leaders urge feds to focus on nation-building, not ‘nation-burning’

03/10/25

Author:

Cloe Logan

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National Observer

Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante talks to reporters on the site of the planned Vertieres Metro station on the blue line of the Montreal subway during a media tour in Montreal on Sept. 9, 2025. Photo by: Christopher Katsarov / The Canadian Press

Sept. 30, 2025

About a year ago, a wildfire in Jasper prompted a mass exodus from the town. More than 25,000 residents evacuated from their alpine home before a third of its buildings burned. It’s a stark example of the reality most municipalities are grappling with across Canada — that more floods, fires and smoke are here, exacerbated by emissions they have little local control over.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Gitxsan hereditary Chief alleges BC pipeline approved without proper consultation

03/10/25

Author:

Darryl Greer

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National Observer

Randy Tait, of the Nisga'a-Gitxsan Nation, blows down feathers into the air during a friendship walk to a National Indigenous Peoples Day gathering, in Vancouver, BC, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Photo by: Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press

Sept. 29, 2025

Two legal challenges filed in British Columbia claim a liquefied natural gas pipeline hasn't been "substantially started," contrary to a decision made by the provincial government back in June.

Petitions filed in B.C. Supreme Court last week allege the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission natural gas pipeline project has been given the green-light by the B.C. Environment Ministry to go ahead without requiring a new environmental assessment certificate, which was first granted in 2014.

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Ecology/Environment

A report today from Stand.earth shows the industry’s water use increased 50 per cent in 2024.

Parched, the city has proposed piping water in. And selling it to the very industry some say caused the problem.

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