Mis/Disinformation & Climate Denial

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.

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.

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.

While major emitting countries say they can't be held accountable for climate harm that predates their awareness of the risks, a new report from the U.S. Center for International Environmental Law shows their governments knew decades earlier than they're now claiming.

Hot on the heels of a new round of 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports, scheduled to take effect Aug. 19, Donald Trump has instructed his administration to look into a separate punitive measure in response to wildfire smoke crossing the border.

From First Nations communities confronting systemic failures that leave them fleeing ahead of infernos, to firefighters battling misinformation alongside the flames, to smoke-choked urban commentators rebuking Ottawa’s pivot away from serious climate action, anger is running high across Canada as the country’s wildfire season bursts wide open.

Some U.S. lawmakers on Thursday threatened to sanction Canada—or even possibly annex it entirely—as they raged about wildfire smoke blanketing many parts of Canada and swaths of the United States.

The Canadian Climate Institute’s Principal Economist, Dave Sawyer, estimates average new emissions from the oil sands at 20 million tonnes per year, well above the total the industry is offering to capture by the mid-2030s or even 2045.

A new social media platform in Europe, W Social, has gone online with a mission to counter mis- and disinformation in all its forms, including climate change denial and myth-making.

From land fraud to green lobbying, Brazil’s carbon markets are struggling to deliver what they promise—just as the country tries to lead on climate finance.

As wildfire season ramps up, a global coalition combating climate disinformation warns that climate “disinfluencers” are spreading falsehoods online, and that social media companies could do more to prevent them from disrupting access to critical information.

In the face of rising climate disinformation in Canadian municipalities, a new digital tool aims to streamline climate planning decisions and show their impact.

Senators saved a network of ocean sensors from "supreme stupidity." But other cutting-edge efforts are running out of funding, too.

Wrangling over climate finance, direct attacks on climate science, and diplomats dressed in protest t-shirts were among the more memorable takeaways from two weeks of negotiations in Bonn, where country representatives tried and largely failed to generate momentum on the main issues that will be up for discussion at this...

An extensive update to the world’s leading corporate net-zero standard drew praise from carbon removal companies but fury from climate groups that say Big Tech killed one of its most important provisions.