News/Climate

News Massive fires fuelled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on Wednesday.  Droughts and fires spurred on by climate change are erasing gains made in preventing forest loss, report findsThomson Reuters · Posted: May 21, 2025 3:37 PM EDTContinue Reading

News The deep cracking sound bursting from within the ice signals the dramatic fall about to happen. Seconds later, a block of ice some 70 metres tall — the size of a 20-storey building — collapses from the face of the Perito Moreno glacier into the aquamarine water below. The sizeContinue Reading

News The U.S. says it rejects efforts to impose economic measures against its ships, leaving IMO talks to continue despite the country’s withdrawal. UN shipping agency trying to help industry reach net zero deal by 2050Thomson Reuters · Posted: Apr 09, 2025 4:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 9Continue Reading

News A new study finds only 17 per cent of the world’s peatlands are in protected areas, a vast under-protection considering how critical they are to carbon storage, biodiversity and water regulation. But it also highlights gaps in data about this vital ecosystem. Canada is home to a quarter ofContinue Reading

Standing in his living room, Richard Kabzems brandishes a thick binder stuffed with letters and notes of his two-year fight to stop fracking wells near his home in Farmington, B.C. Ovintiv, a multinational oil and gas company, announced two years ago that it would expand fracking for gas at aContinue Reading

News EVs are now more expensive for CanadiansThe federal incentive for buying electric vehicles has stopped months earlier than planned, due to a surge in demand. With Quebec pausing its rebate for buyers and the political winds shifting in the U.S., where does that leave Canadians looking to buy EVsContinue Reading

News Ahead of Trump presidency, U.S. banks abandon Mark Carney climate initiativeAll major U.S. banks have quit a climate initiative known as the Net-Zero Banking Alliance. Formed in 2021 as a subgroup of a Mark Carney-led climate finance group, it now faces an uncertain future, even as Canadian and EuropeanContinue Reading

News Today, several climate agencies confirmed what we knew was coming: Earth once again experienced its hottest year on record. But whether or not it surpassed 1.5 C above the pre-industrial average depends on which climate agency you look at. Overall, the message is the same: Earth continues to warm,Continue Reading

News As nations negotiate a binding global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, the pressure from industry is to focus more on recycling. But with some figures estimating only nine per cent of plastic is recycled, what are the solutions? 175 countries trying to negotiate binding treaty on plastic pollution inContinue Reading