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The photos helped Timmer and his colleagues show something recent records had missed: climate change was reshaping kelp forests around Vancouver Island decades earlier than scientists understood. In a new UVic study, based on 1972 photos, old maps, scuba surveys and more, researchers found more than 550 hectares of bull kelp once floated near Comox and Denman Island. Most disappeared between 1972 and 1984 and none remain today.

The US and a bunch of other petrostates were notably not invited.

Wildfire expert Mike Flannigan says this year will be his “litmus test” for whether Canada’s wildfire seasons, already in uncharted territory and fuelled by human-caused climate change, have entered a “new reality.”

The Oil Sands Alliance — rebranded from the Pathways Alliance — has a history of misleading the public about the fossil fuel industry’s support for climate action, all the while pushing to expand production.

The Oil Sands Alliance — rebranded from the Pathways Alliance — has a history of misleading the public about the fossil fuel industry’s support for climate action, all the while pushing to expand production.

Four years ago, European officials made a plan to reduce dependence on Russian gas and ramp up renewable energy, but a new study found it only reinforced existing decarbonization trajectories and missed the opportunity to meaningfully accelerate the clean energy transition.

I also note that Alberta-style tar mining is associated with a huge increase in risk of cancer for surrounding communities

I also note that Alberta-style tar mining is associated with a huge increase in risk of cancer for surrounding communities

There is currently no parliamentary budget officer scrutinizing federal finances in Ottawa as the interim fiscal watchdog’s term expired Monday without a successor in place.

Terence Hubbard acknowledged the project will cause adverse effects, but said there are ways to address this other than through an impact assessment, including federal and provincial legislation like the Species at Risk Act, Fisheries Act and Mining Act.

Wyloo’s proposed underground copper, nickel and platinum mine in the Ring of Fire will not be subject to a federal impact assessment, despite the unified calls of more than half a dozen First Nations.

Enbridge’s CEO doesn’t think investors should take on the risk of developing new fossil fuel infrastructure — that, instead, governments should do so for them.

Enbridge’s CEO doesn’t think investors should take on the risk of developing new fossil fuel infrastructure — that, instead, governments should do so for them.

What’s important to understand is that through his role in Brookfield, Carney is a major investor in X, which is substantially impacting his ability to act.

AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to ‘shorten my route’ or ‘make this more scenic.’

“Schabas also found the government failed to provide evidence that removing the lanes would alleviate congestion — one of the law’s stated purposes. In contrast, expert testimony presented by the applicants suggested lane removal would likely increase collisions, injuries and even deaths​.”

“The finding is devastating but utterly unsurprising: Climate change did play a role, and often a major role in most of the events we studied, making heat, droughts, tropical cyclones and heavy rainfall more likely and more intense across the world, destroying lives and livelihoods of millions and often uncounted numbers of people,” Friederike Otto, the lead of World Weather Attribution and an Imperial College climate scientist, said during a media briefing on the scientists’ findings. “As long as the world keeps burning fossil fuels, this will only get worse.”

A new report released Tuesday by the United Nations’ expert panel on biodiversity makes the case for a different approach based on addressing the “nexus” between two or more out of five essential issue areas: climate change, biodiversity, food, human health, and water. Such an approach is not only more likely to help the world meet various U.N. targets on biodiversity, sustainable development, and climate mitigation; it’s also more cost-effective.