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28/10/25
Author: 
BADIL
Gaza genocide

Oct. 28, 2025   

Despite the announcement of a deal between the Palestinian resistance movement and the Israeli regime, the latter continues to violate the ceasefire provisions. The world treats the ceasefire as if the genocide has ended, but the reality on the ground tells a different story: Gaza is in ruins; and starvation, displacement, and death continue as deliberate tools of genocide. This so-called ceasefire exists only in rhetoric; genocide continues while diplomatic actors debate who allegedly broke the deal.

25/10/25
Author: 
David Suzuki, with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington
Growing economies, growing industry, growing cities, growing population, growing pollution… When does it stop?

Oct. 23, 2025

Growing economies, growing industry, growing cities, growing population, growing pollution… When does it stop?

Our current economic system is obsessed with constant growth; everything must keep expanding — except for the natural systems on which our health and survival depend. Those are shrinking, destroyed by our obsession with growth.

 

22/10/25
Author: 
Jordan Omstead
People take their dogs out for a quick break under billowing wildfire smoke off Highway 97 north of Buckinghorse River, BC on Friday, May 30, 2025. File photo by The Canadian Press/Nasuna Stuart-Ulin

Oct. 21, 2025

Two new studies are helping to shed light on the extent Canadians feel climate change is impacting their mental health.

A national study published today suggests about 2.3 per cent of people in Canada experience climate change anxiety at a level the authors considered "clinically relevant," causing meaningful distress and disruption in their lives.

22/10/25
Author: 
John Woodside
The head of the new federal government Major Projects Office Dawn Farrell listens as Prime Minister Mark Carney announces five major projects in Edmonton on Sept. 11, 2025. File photo by: Amber Bracken / The Canadian Press

Oct. 22, 2025

The Major Projects Office can’t substantiate its boss’ claim that the Trans Mountain pipeline helps fight climate change. 

22/10/25
Author: 
Umair Irfan
The wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this year were likely the costliest blazes on record. Photo by Getty Images/Vox

Oct. 22, 2025

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

The modern age of burning has been ignited by human hands.

22/10/25
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Illustration by: Barry Saxifrage

Oct. 22, 2025

British Columbians might be surprised to learn they are among the world’s most aggressive extractors of climate-destabilizing fossil fuels, per capita — and major projects that are already being built aim to make the province’s contribution much worse. 

Seven charts help tell the story of how we got here.

20/10/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
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.

17/10/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is dealing with two world powers as Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, increasingly restricts critical mineral exports to the US and President Donald Trump, left, takes an interest in BC mining companies. Photo of Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia, Creative Commons licensed. Photo of Mark Carney via Wikimedia. Photo of Xi Jinping via Wikimedia.

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Oct. 16, 2025

Global instability is creating a rush for critical minerals, which are useful for green energy. And the military.

Last week, Vancouver-based Trilogy Metals announced that it had signed a deal with the U.S. Department of War.

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