Unsorted: Climate & Environment

A new bird song is spreading like wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, at a scale not seen before by scientists. Birds rarely change their

The province's COVID-related suspension of environmental rules is undercutting protection against oil and gas and mining projects, including in overwhelmed First Nations communities

The finances of the oil and gas industry are so dismal that the major banks that have funded the money-losing fracking boom are now exploring taking the unusual step of taking over the oil companies that cannot afford to pay back the banks’ loans. Reuters reported that banks are exploring the option of seizing oil company assets […]

Addressing climate change is a big enough idea to revive the economy.

A federal court on Wednesday delivered a setback to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project, vacating a permit the government had issued for its construction.  Federal Judge Brian Morris determined that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrongly issued the permit, saying the Corps did not comply with environmental requirements.  His decision came in response to…

In January we launched Microsoft’s carbon initiative, setting new goals for our company to become carbon negative by the end of this decade. While COVID-19 has upended daily life for almost all of us since then, sustainability issues have become no less urgent or important. That’s why today we’re announcing the second step in our...

“At this point I will give the benefit of the doubt to the government… but we will be watching very closely,” said Ontario NDP environment critic Ian Arthur.

The first will produce enough energy to power thousands of households

Global oil demand fell by one-third in March, as worldwide air travel all but stopped, manufacturing plants went on hiatus and workers around the globe heeded requests -- and often orders -- to stay at home over coronavirus.

Scientists and conservationists are proposing that up to half of Earth’s land and oceans be protected for nature. Is it a necessary step or a pipe dream?

A developing model of infectious disease shows that most epidemics — AIDS, Ebola, West Nile, SARS, Lyme disease — are a result of things people do to nature.

For the first time in history, activists have cleaned up some of the trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—and they will quickly collect much more.

Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake

Scientists once ridiculed the idea of a living planet. Not anymore.

From September 2018: Ambitious dreams have now become a reality as the Ocean Cleanup deploys its $20 million system designed to clean up the 1.8 trillion pieces of trash floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The abundant winter weather has also resulted in the state's second wildflower super bloom in just a few short years.

A groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published today in the journal Environmental Research found that switching to an organic diet significantly reduced

In the United States, more people were employed in solar power than traditional coal, gas and oil energy combined last year.

Company’s own records revealed damning truth of glyphosate-based herbicides’ link to cancer, says investigative journalist Carey Gillam

It’s hard to measure the value of a tree, but scientists equipped with lasers have come one step closer.

Unesco removes the Belize Barrier Reef from its list of endangered sites, praising government action.

Climate think tank says Ottawa is ‘really missing in action’ when it comes to support for clean energy

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See-through solar materials that can be applied to windows represent a massive source of untapped energy and could harvest as much power as bigger, bulkier rooftop solar units.

Google is officially off-setting 100% of its energy usage with either wind or solar power. The company signed contracts on...