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The World Court throws f-bombs — and lots of 'em

With its landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice has finally offered its first opinion on questions about climate change, concluding that...

28.07.2025 20

Chris Hatch

The 'why' of wildfires

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...

21.07.2025 10

Chris Hatch

Republicans complain about smoke. But they voted for fire

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...

14.07.2025 20

Chris Hatch

Halfway to 2050, and far from where we need to be

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...

07.07.2025 10

Chris Hatch

A splash of paint, a flood of warnings: climate protest in a time of acceleration

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...

30.06.2025 40

Chris Hatch

Danielle Smith's revealing 'living standards' slip

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...

16.06.2025 10

Chris Hatch

There is no such thing as "decarbonized oil"

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...

09.06.2025 10

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Burning through the guardrails

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...

02.06.2025 10

Chris Hatch

A deadly start to wildfire season

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...

20.05.2025 9

Chris Hatch

‘Build, baby, build.’ Some conditions apply

Canadians are demanding new homes but buildings are already the third-largest source of fossil fuel pollution in Canada and cutting those emissions...

12.05.2025 10

Chris Hatch

It's time to shift from relief to gratitude as Carney helps steer the climate transition

Danielle Smith's agitations and the insatiable fossil fuel industry's demands will make climate action difficult, but Canada's new...

05.05.2025 10

Chris Hatch

As towns burn and reefs bleach, whither are we bound?

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.

28.04.2025 30

Chris Hatch

Climate change doesn't care if Trump believes in it

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...

14.04.2025 9

Chris Hatch

A ray of British sunshine pierces the climate doom

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...

17.03.2025 10

Chris Hatch

Donald Trump's driving motivation is dominance

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...

10.03.2025 10

Chris Hatch

The forbidden topic that must stay on our political agenda

The best that can be said about the Liberal leadership debates is that climate action was on the agenda.

03.03.2025 20

Chris Hatch

A decade after his bombshell speech, Mark Carney is still pushing for a climate fix

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...

24.02.2025 30

Chris Hatch

Should we even bother talking about climate change?

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...

18.02.2025 10

Chris Hatch

Dry January? The Earth went for it and broke yet more heat records

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...

10.02.2025 10

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The most vicious assault on climate action we’ve ever seen

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...

27.01.2025 30

Chris Hatch

Yes, cities in Canada will burn too

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...

20.01.2025 10

Chris Hatch

Welcome to Trump's America where wildfires rage and oil flows

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...

13.01.2025 10

Chris Hatch

You must be a sentinel

You’re kind of unusual. Don’t be offended — I think I must be too. It takes a peculiar kind of person to grasp the catastrophic risks we’re...

23.12.2024 7

Chris Hatch

Great climate non-fiction books are popping up faster than solar panels

“A good book is like a hydra.” wrote one reader, Kirk, this week. “Causing several more entries of must-read books to my ever growing list. ...

16.12.2024 10

Chris Hatch

The best climate fiction for readers coming to terms with climate fact

You certainly are a well-read bunch! And the most striking thing about your many book recommendations was the breadth and variety of climate...

09.12.2024 4

Chris Hatch

Climate reparations aren't charity, they're a responsibility

International climate negotiations rarely end on an upbeat note, but the latest edition staggered to an even more acrimonious ending than usual. ...

02.12.2024 7

Chris Hatch

Burning comforting illusions in the land of fire

The president of Azerbaijan opened this year’s UN climate summit declaring that oil and gas are a “gift from God.” Far from a reckoning with...

18.11.2024 4

Chris Hatch

Coping with the Trumpsterfire

Thank you for all of your responses to last week’s question: “How are you coping?” Your answers feel even more on point with Donald Trump...

12.11.2024 10

Chris Hatch

The death of EV sales has been greatly exaggerated

Stopped at a school crossing a couple of weeks ago, a cheerful tangle of tweens turned towards me and a helpful kid called out: “Hey, your charging...

28.10.2024 10