John Light, grist.org, 2 Nov 2014
The latest IPCC report is out, and the news is not happy.
The chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, called today’s report the “strongest, most robust and most comprehensive” to come out of the IPCC, which has...
Max B. Baker, Star-Telegram, Nov 5, 2014
In a state where the oil and gas industry is king, Denton on Tuesday was poised to become the first city in Texas to ban hydraulic fracturing as voters approved a grassroots initiative against the controversial drilling method.
In...
Ryan Maloney, The Huffinton Post Canada, 11/04/2014
Conservative MP Michael Chong is calling on the federal government to take action in the wake of a startling new report on climate change.
Chong, a prominent member of an all-party, non-partisan "climate caucus," rose in the...
JUSTIN GILLIS, The New York Times, November 2, 2014
The gathering risks of climate change are so profound that they could stall or even reverse generations of progress against poverty and hunger if greenhouse emissions continue at a runaway pace, according to a major new United Nations...
The Huffington Post Canada, 10/21/2014
Canada does well at many things.
Earlier this year, Canadian cities were listed among the world's top places to live. The country ranks high with the best when it comes to wealth and it's been praised for emerging from the financial crisis in...
Kate Sheppard, Huffington Post, October 17, 2014
The company that wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline was recognized this week for leadership on climate change -– to the shock of environmental activists.
Alberta-based TransCanada, which has been seeking permission to build...
Jessica Shankleman for BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian Environment Network, theguardian.com, 13 October 2014
The governor of the Bank of England has reiterated his warning that fossil fuel companies cannot burn all of their reserves if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change...
Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press, 10/07/2014
The French president's special envoy on climate change says he has found an ally in NDP Leader Tom Mulcair in his quest to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.
Nicolas Hulot, who is in Ottawa this week, held a...
Liam Barrington-Bush, ROA Reflection, October 1, 2014
On the eve of the publication of her new book, Naomi Klein talks about the things that give her hope in a world that can sometimes feel very bleak.
Naomi Klein rose to international acclaim in 1999 by explaining how big...
Josh Wingrove,Ottawa — The Globe and Mail, Sep. 24 2014
An amended version of the Reform Act – a Conservative backbencher’s effort to rein in the authority of party leaders and hand more power to individual MPs – has passed a second reading in the House of Commons, a key step in its path...