Climate Action

The coalition has come together at a time when the climate crisis and related issues—including plans for a gas-burning power plant in Tantramar and a hyperscale data centre in Lorneville that will also burn gas—are top-of-mind for many area residents.

Fifteen Canadians from all three coasts are in Vancouver to argue the federal government has a responsibility to protect them from climate-change-fueled disasters.

Climate Action Network International, which has handed out the satirical award since 1999, says Tuesday's edition went to the "absent leaders of wealthy countries," including Canada, Germany, France, Japan and Denmark.

Climate advocates fighting to restrict new oil and gas production are facing mounting criticism from within the environmental movement that such strategies are ineffective, costly for consumers, and enrich oil companies.

Democrats swept Congress and won in red states. Here are the races that matter most for decarbonization, disasters, and data centres in the United States.

As 15 youth head to court to sue the Canadian government, the outcome could set a precedent for whether the government can be held accountable for its climate policies and targets.

Youth protests for better school conditions have prompted a national political crisis. Lack of adaptation to a hotter world is part of the story.

Indigenous leaders and parliamentarians from Canada and South America met in Ottawa last week to build international solidarity around divestment in planet-heating fossil fuels.

Members of a self-described "climate caravan" tried to deliver hundreds of photos and stories about the effects of wildfires and flooding to MPs' desks in the House of Commons.

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.

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.

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.

Michigan acknowledged the project will have “significant impacts,” including harms to threatened or endangered species and destruction of the ancestral burial grounds of local Tribal Nations. “The magnitude of impacts to recognized historic and cultural values of this proposed project exceeds that of any other that EGLE (the Department of...

Community opposition blocked or delayed US$64 billion of data centre projects in the United States in less than a year, yet community concerns do not make the top-four list of considerations for data centre proponents when they pick a location.

The Law Society of British Columbia has voted down a resolution to form a climate advisory committee, marking the third such rejection in four years.