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Chris HatchNational Observer |
The telltale plume of hot water has been spreading in the Eastern Pacific and the world’s forecasters are converging on agreement that an El Niño...
Instead of sowing doubt about the science of climate change and denying the need for a green transition, the industries and their promoters play for...
As the world’s biggest petrostate bombs the runner-up in fossil gas reserves (and number 3 in oil reserves), the rest of the world is looking for an...
Though many Canadians think our neighbours aren't thinking about climate change much at all, more than 30 million Canadians admit to being concerned...
It’s worth pausing on the point that the world’s largest source of climate pollution is no longer growing relentlessly.
The most telling revelation about the announcement of the Canadian government's new auto strategy came during the technical briefing when government...
Canada's oil and gas industry is a fiscal time bomb due to oil well cleanup liabilities that have been kept off the books.
The prime minister's speech was a radical contrast to the weaving, menacing ramble from US President Donald Trump later in the program. But it left...
Opening the door to Chinese EVs might just begin a reckoning with the transition to cleaner transportation.
The grip once held on the world by fossil fuels is slipping as electrification efforts at varying scales and speeds rise around the globe. But one...
Last week, I asked for your recommendations of your top books of the year. The list was eclectic and very wide-ranging. But two non-fiction books and...
As 2025 draws to its close, European scientists are noting that the three-year average temperature has exceeded 1.5C above preindustrial levels for...
In a case of highly suspect timing, the Ontario government has now repealed all requirements to set climate targets, make a plan, and issue...
The MOU’s provisions read like a photocopy of the list of demands Danielle Smith and the oil industry nailed to the federal government’s door in...
Labeled the "Fossil of the Day" at COP30, Canada faces accusations of pulling back climate policies while pushing forward fossil subsidies...
For so many years, “China” has been brandished in the West as the ultimate whataboutism. China’s carbon pollution is so big, its coal plants so...
As the governments of the world arrive in Brazil for the 30th annual climate gathering, let's take stock of what’s happened globally, and here at...
Around the same time as Melissa terrorized and killed people across the Caribbean, Bill Gates was publishing his own self-proclaimed “tough truths...
Even as we rail in outrage at Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian government has imposed our own punishingly high tariffs on Chinese vehicles —...
Last year, the global concentration of carbon dioxide jumped by 3.5 parts per million (ppm) and reached 424 ppm, the biggest jump since modern...
Solar and wind are growing so quickly that they outpaced all the growth in electricity demand this year. Which means they started eating into fossil...
In some deep sense, seeing is why she’s famous. She looked at chimpanzees and didn’t see objects or specimens. She gave the chimps in Gombe names...
Given 15 minutes to address the United Nations General Assembly, Donald Trump found a fresh way to shock the world by rambling on for about an hour...
Our 2030 climate target is 'out of reach' and progress is 'fragile and slipping,' according to a leading climate policy think...
'The new normal' is a pitifully inadequate phrase, a stumbling step towards accuracy that results in misdirection.
With its landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice has finally offered its first opinion on questions about climate change, concluding that...
There are 72 countries in the world whose landmass is smaller than the amount of hectares of forest that have burned across Canada this year — and...
It had to be a joke, right? A group of MAGA lawmakers moaning about “suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke” in a complaint fired off to Canada’s...
This halfway point to 2050 offers a stark reckoning. We've burned through a quarter century in what feels like a blink. Now, we’re left with...
The drop in public priority is grossly out of sync with the worsening reality of climate change. The past years have seen a marked jump in global...
Danielle Smith blurted out that “we’ve got the lowest living standards in the world," in a clear case of misspeaking. But what did she really...
The decarbonized doublespeak may not be new but it was jarring coming from the mouth of our new PM, who has an undeniable grasp of the impacts of...
Only seven years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected the world wouldn’t heat beyond 1.5 C until the 2040s. Two years...
It’s hard to imagine a more terrifying and excruciating way to die — trapped by wildfire as the flames close in. Richard and Sue Nowell were...
Canadians are demanding new homes but buildings are already the third-largest source of fossil fuel pollution in Canada and cutting those emissions...
Danielle Smith's agitations and the insatiable fossil fuel industry's demands will make climate action difficult, but Canada's new...
Whether it’s the loss of tropical reefs or ice, towns or forests, it all comes back to the burning of oil, gas and coal.
The populist right might be hoping to cancel climate change by vilifying words and cutting funding. But the planet is unmoved by narrative battles and...
The U.K.’s planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872. That’s not a typo — we’re looking back to a time when Queen Victoria was on...
Trump's posture towards the natural world sums it up. Rip bare the Earth and drill, baby, drill. Trump has ordered chainsaws into millions of...
The best that can be said about the Liberal leadership debates is that climate action was on the agenda.
There are new debates over Carney’s approach. But once again, you can’t help but notice that he’s the one person up there making a positive case...
It’s a question you hear muttered more and more in environmental circles and even more brashly from those focused on clean energy: given the shift...
Scientists are still trying to figure out what’s happening — why the last two years were so inexplicably hot and 2024 broke through the symbolic...
There’s no sugarcoating it — Donald Trump’s first hours in office were the most vicious and comprehensive assault on climate action that we’ve...
John Vaillant, author of the best-selling book Fire Weather, says the hotter our cities become, the more we must worry about fire. “I don’t expect...
The year is barely underway and the paradoxes are already bleak. Climate fires exploded in LA just after Trump’s certification as winner of the US...
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