Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• ‘We’re all in big trouble’: UN climate report says oceans rising, ice melting faster

  “The oceans and the icy parts of the world are in big trouble and that means we’re all in big trouble, too,” said one of the report’s lead authors, Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University. “The changes are accelerating.”

  Weather

  Sep 25, 2019
• Upcoming climate summit gives spotlight to world leaders with a plan

  As if to underscore the seriousness of the problem, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization released a science report Sunday showing that in the last several years, warming, sea level rise and carbon pollution have all accelerated.

  World

  Sep 22, 2019
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• ‘Historic’ Halifax seawall being redeveloped as municipality seeks to reduce impact of climate change

  Construction crews could be seen hard at work at the Horshoe Island Park seawall this week as they continued their efforts to prepare the municipality's sea walls

  Environment

  Jul 10, 2019
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• Prime Minister hears NS praise on environmental spending, as protesters arrested

  Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil thanked Trudeau for providing "a good start" to the costs of cleaning up a lagoon near Pictou Landing First Nation where decades of contaminated pulp mill waste has accumulated.

  Politics

  May 24, 2019
• Canada is warming and it’s irreversible. Why is it so hard to care?

  "We have been talking to people about something that doesn’t feel relevant to them."

  Environment

  Apr 3, 2019
• Sackville, N.B. students demand action regarding ‘climate crisis’

  Students are worried about the younger and future generations, saying governments have failed us and left us in what many called a "climate crisis."

  Environment

  Mar 15, 2019
• Victoria mayor coming to tour Alberta oilsands with ‘open mind’

  Victoria's mayor says she is coming to visit Alberta's oilsands in April with an 'open mind' and to learn more about her neighbouring province's environmental stewardship.

  Canada

  Feb 25, 2019
• Online maps highlight impact of climate change on Canada’s boreal forests

  New online maps let viewers zero in on how climate change will affect their part of Canada's boreal forest.

  Environment

  Oct 22, 2018
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• Edmonton Mayor Iveson tells UN conference cities can fight climate change alone

  Cities can do a lot to fight climate change on their own even if the levels of government they answer to aren't interested, the mayor of Alberta's capital told an international conference on Monday.

  Environment

  Mar 5, 2018
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• Danielle Smith: Canadian climatologist wins a victory for common sense

  The modern inquisition tactic is something known as a “strategic lawsuit against public participation,” or SLAPP lawsuit.

  Blogs

  Feb 15, 2018