Agriculture

12/12/25
Author: 
Soutrik Goswami
Street protest - Working-Class Priorities as the Principle for Climate Action

Dec. 12, 2025

The global climate emergency is no longer a distant warning – it is an unfolding catastrophe. Longer heatwaves, recurring cyclones, changing rainfall patterns, and rising sea levels are already reshaping lives across South Asia. A UN report notes that over the past 50 years, 130,000 lives in India have been lost due to extreme weather events. Between 2001 and 2019 alone, it is estimated that more than 20,000 people died from heatwaves – though the real figure is likely much higher.

07/12/25
Author: 
Inside Climate News
The cranes of a new megaport tower behind the town of Chancay, Peru. Credit: Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images

Dec. 1, 2025

A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge

The ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem.

 Eleventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world.

CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen.

06/12/25
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Illustration by National Observer/Ata Ojani

Dec. 5, 2025

Canadian lentils are exposing simmering tensions between Carney's European trade ambitions and his government's proposal to eliminate a key part of Canada's pesticide risk assessment, observers say. 

24/11/25
Author: 
Cloe Logan
Thadia Theodore and Maranatha Hughes spreading straw over the flower farm on the rooftop of Toronto Metropolitan University to get the crops ready for winter. Photo by Cloe Logan / Canada's National Observer

Nov. 24, 2025

Amid the hustle and bustle of downtown Toronto, Thadia Theodore is laying straw over dormant flower beds to prepare them for winter. Tall, glassy buildings surround her on the rooftop farm of her university; construction noise rings out, but she describes it as “peaceful.”

23/08/25
Author: 
Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
Over half of Canada is in drought, and it's having deep impacts that mean some rain doesn't solve the problem. British Columbia has been in drought since 2022, and in 2023, the Thompson River east of Kamloops, B.C. hit one of its lowest points in recent history, during a historic drought and under a sky hazy with wildfire smoke. Photo: Jesse Winter / The Narwhal

Aug. 15, 2025

A rush of water-hungry AI data centres is just one reason to rethink industrial water use, as drought becomes a real, year-round problem across Canada

We got rain — so our drought concerns are over, right?

12/02/25
Author: 
ruce Lourie
What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like? Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 12, 2025

The agriculture and agri-food sectors are, perhaps, the most complex, diverse and challenging sectors to work with on sustainability. There are several efforts underway in Canada, some national and some regional, some focused on smaller-scale farms and some with large industrial agri-food interests, but there is not a cohesive sense of the endgame.  What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like?

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