Ecology/Environment

12/09/22
Author: 
Inayat Singh
Jennifer Baltzer of Wilfrid Laurier University conducts field research in Canada's boreal forest to study how the permafrost is changing and the consequences for the larger climate system. (Angela Gzowski/Wilfrid Laurier University)

"The study effectively warns that the planet already left a safe climate state when it passed 1 C of global warming." . . ." But current policies are actually set to result in about 2.6 C of warming. "

Sept. 11, 2022

2 of the tipping points at highest risk are in Canada

Current rates of global warming have already moved the world perilously close to several tipping points that could send key global weather systems into irreversible collapse, a significant study from Europe has found.

10/09/22
Author: 
Grace Kennedy

Webpage Editor: Apart from the concerns mentioned in the article I wonder about the energy that would be necessary to operate these systems and their large scale and the high cost of the technology.  And what about their vulnerability to extreme environmental conditions?

Sept. 6, 2022

07/09/22
Author: 
Jake Johnson
Glaciers are seen as ice floes melt in Antarctica on February 7, 2022. (Photo: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Sept. 6. 2022

"Just a small kick to Thwaites could lead to a big response," warned the lead author of an alarming new analysis.

New research unveiled Monday suggests that the West Antarctic Thwaites Glacier—an enormous ice mass with the potential to trigger catastrophic sea level rise—could retreat far more quickly in the coming years than scientists previously anticipated as fossil fuel-driven planetary warming continues to accelerate.

04/09/22
Author: 
Arno Kopecky
After years of working as a climate activist, Anjali Appadurai is gunning to be the next leader of the B.C. NDP. Photo: Rebecca Simiyu / The Narwhal

Aug. 29, 2022

In a litmus test for the political clout of the climate movement, Anjali Appadurai, who’s never held public office, is gunning for an upset over establishment favourite David Eby in the NDP leadership contest

Inspired, bemused or aghast, there’s one thing almost every description of Anjali Appadurai’s leadership run agrees on: it probably won’t end in victory. 

03/09/22
Author: 
Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad
Displaced people wade through a flooded area in Peshawar, Pakistan. The country’s flooded southern Sindh province braced on Sunday for a fresh deluge. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Aug. 28, 2022

Flash flooding from ‘monster monsoon’ washes away villages and crops and leaves thousands homeless

A Pakistani minister has called the country’s deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe” and “a climate dystopia at our doorstep” as officials said deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan had passed 1,000 since mid-June.

24/08/22
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup cost of possible oil spills from TMX, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided. Photo by Jesse Winter / Canada's National Observer


Aug. 23, 2022

Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup cost of possible oil spills from its expansion project, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided.

23/08/22
Author: 
George Monbiot
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Aug. 22, 2022

As environmental breakdown threatens to render large parts of the planet unfarmable, how can mass starvation best be averted?

This is my response to the open letter from my friend Jyoti Fernandes, published on the website of the Landworkers’ Alliance.

Dear Jyoti,

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