A key target to stop climate change raising global temperatures is under threat at a UN summit. Climate change talks have been trying to limit the average rise in temperatures to 1.5C. But at talks in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik, there are concerns that target will slip. Senior...
It’s a magical place situated in Canada’s north: Churchill, Man., was recently named one of the World’s Great Places by Time magazine. But Churchill is on thin ice, as is humanity, according to a report released by the UN earlier this week that says time is running out to...
Federal lawyers defended the government’s Impact Assessment Act in the Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday as a two-day hearing started to determine the future of how the country weighs the environmental costs of economic development. Several of the seven-member panel of justices hearing...
Southern Alberta is home to a wide range of wildlife and topography, ranging from prairie grasslands to the Rocky Mountains. That unique landscape is what organizations like the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) are trying to protect. “We have conserved land through different...
Human action to save the ozone layer has worked as hoped, and it may recover in just decades, the UN says. An international agreement in 1987 to stop using the harmful chemicals that were damaging the layer has been successful, the major assessment says. The ozone layer is a thin part of...
