DELIBERATE ECOCIDE

In the Trump White House, environmental justice is deemed "illegal" and polluters are invited to ask for exemptions from the law.

Humanity produces roughly 400 million metric tons of plastic each year, yet only recycles or reuses 9%, at most, of all the plastic collected. While nations ...

A paper in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes there is limited accountability for corporations that fail to achieve their climate change mitigation ...

It's never good to hear the words "total societal collapse" from a scholarly paper, but that's exactly the phrasing used in the new UN climate report. We all...

Climate has fallen off the electorate’s radar, now ranking sixth in a list of priority issues in a recent poll.

Climate disinformation is hindering our ability to combat the gravest threat of our time

The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. Now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in t...

Removing heavy metals from the body through a process traditionally used to treat mercury and lead poisoning doesn't help relieve autism symptoms, a new analysis suggests.

Evidence is accumulating that microplastics found nearly everywhere are also invading our bodies. What should you do?

Canadian governments could take advantage of their access to cheaper borrowing and patient capital to bring power generation back into the democratic control. Public ownership of generation and transmission would accelerate deployment of low carbon energy sources according to social and ecological need, not private profit.

Why is Canada lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to industrial policy, and how can industrial strategy help Canada take serious climate action? Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives focusing on international trade and climate change policy in Canada, sat down with the Perspectives Journal Podcast at the 2024 Progress Summit in April to discuss Canada’s industrial policy vision.

After a long summer break for the Perspectives Journal Podcast, we’re back and with the problematic Temporary Foreign Workers Program in the news, as well as growing anti-immigrant sentiment across Canada and other Western countries, we kicked off this season asking what’s behind this narrative, who’s to blame, and what the working-class is doing to fix this problem.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world, yet there is much uncertainty about its future. While challenges remain surrounding ethics, equity and best practices, AI is transforming industries, driving innovation and redefining how we solve complex problems.

Danielle Smith's agitations and the insatiable fossil fuel industry's demands will make climate action difficult, but Canada's new prime minister brings the right qualifications — and will have plenty of help in the House.

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Canada’s newly elected Liberal government must step into a greater climate leadership role on the international stage and make smart choices at home in the face of compounding challenges, leaders at environmental advocacy organization Stand.earth said today.  As communities in Canada contend with more […]

Clean energy makes society better. It’s affordable. It’s healthy. It creates good-paying jobs and choices for consumers. But increasingly, we’re seeing misin...

As noted in my previous article, Canada and Quebec’s commercial entanglement in the US economy is profound following thirty years of “free trade,” with neoliberal capitalism as its legacy. Suddenly, Trump has thrown this aside for an attempt to neo-fascistize the US and the world. The result is an abrupt…

By Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Marianne Lavelle, & Wyatt Myskow One hundred days into the second Trump

Climate change is everywhere. Moving to a new place because it seems less affected is a fool’s errand

In a recent interview, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney spoke about how private finance is increasingly aligned behind achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. He underlined that people everywhere should keep up the pressure in calling for climate action. Read more here.

Microplastics are everywhere- from the water bottles we use to our clothes. While they are a serious health concern for all humans, research has found that it particularly impacts those with dementia.

Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

Climate change has been all but ignored in the Australian election campaign, and world leaders are giving up on the cause, even as the heat rises.

A youth-led climate case is heading back to court. Following a ruling from Ontario’s top court, the stage is set for a resolution of this groundbreaking case.

The emerging global competition for green innovation, markets and investments might boost prosperity without improving environmental sustainability.

Oil and gas companies want everyday people to believe that we're driving the climate crisis. In fact, here are the influential players behind Canada's oil an...

In DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, you can browse our extensive research on the individuals and organizations that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight global warming.

In this introductory video, I explore Murray Bookchin's groundbreaking work, The Ecology of Freedom, and discuss how capitalism actively disconnects us from ...

As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming […]