Society & Culture

With climate change emerging as a top issue in national elections coming up Sept. 13, thousands of people converged on Stockholm just over a week ago for one of the biggest climate marches in recent memory.

Tech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about.

It’s widely known Canada is facing both an affordable housing crisis and a climate crisis, and the worst possible outcome is solving one to punish the other. If we make the wrong choices today, we risk locking in generations of unnecessary emissions, future maintenance and retrofit costs, infrastructure strain, and...

Public opposition to artificial intelligence (AI) data centre projects is surging across Canada and the United States, as outrage over the projects’ energy and water use, noise pollution, carbon footprint—and their proponents’ habit of often ignoring or flouting community opposition—unites voters across the political spectrum.

At outdoor movie nights across British Columbia this summer, the power behind the screen, the speakers, and even the popcorn machine came from a pair of electric pickup trucks parked nearby.

A new joint venture with majority Indigenous ownership has unveiled a general plan to develop an export terminal at the Port of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, to send liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe.

Metro Vancouver is spending billions to switch buildings, vehicles, and the power system to cleaner electricity, but is missing an opportunity to grow local businesses and jobs around the transition, finds a new report by the Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC).

Climate change arrived this summer for the beloved TV characters and landscapes of Sesame Street, in a special episode where Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and friends have to get ready for extreme weather, then learn to help each other through the aftermath.

The Alberta county council that granted permits for Meta’s new $13-billion, climate-polluting, gas-powered artificial intelligence (AI) data centre has declared an agricultural disaster due to record-setting extreme weather attributed largely to climate change.

"The kindest-looking land is growing the sharpest teeth," writes India's Theresa Ronnie on The Climate Desk. "We have not updated the story we tell about these places, but the map has changed. That gap, for now, is where people are dying."

While Canada’s clean energy sector is expected to grow in the coming years, the workforce remains persistently inequitable.

The federal government’s latest move to fast-track the controversial West Coast Pipeline has opened up a new opportunity for opponents to turn up the heat on elected representatives to block the project, one of Canada’s leading climate and energy campaigners said Tuesday.

As devastating wildfires continue to burn across swaths of Canada, the United States, and Europe, oil major Shell posted $9.8 billion in second quarter profits, more than double its earnings from this time last year.

The proportion of Canadians who identify environment and climate change as a top-three concern has jumped 50% in the last four months, from 14 to 21%, as a summer of epic wildfires, heat domes, and flooding creates what the Angus Reid Institute calls “thorny challenges” for Prime Minister Mark Carney...

A strengthening El Niño that has already broken records for intensity at its early stages will likely spark even more wild weather worldwide as it grows, “adding fuel to a planet already on fire,” United Nations officials warned Friday.