Advisory-Council of Canadians vows to defeat Energy East pipeline
As TransCanada filed its application on Nov. 3 to the National Energy Board (NEB) for its Energy East pipeline, the Council of Canadians vowed to continue building momentum against the project that is...
View ArticleCoal’s last stand? It doesn’t intend to go quietly, or truthfully
Can burning coal help the poor? Big Coal is looking to make a comeback and all they need to do is to put a little lipstick on the pig. Or so they think. Coal is a dirty fuel, it’s hard on the lungs...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki: The movement for environmental rights is building
The idea of a right to a healthy environment is getting traction at Canada’s highest political levels. Federal Opposition MP Linda Duncan recently introduced “An Act to Establish a Canadian...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki: We must clean up our act
It’s become a cliché to say that out of crisis comes opportunity. But there’s no denying that when faced with crises, we have choices. The opportunity depends on what we decide to do. What choices...
View ArticleChina and US deliver radical climate surprise
The US-China climate agreement is being called historic − a momentous shift in the battle to combat climate change. But can China and the US fulfil the promises in their pledge to cut carbon...
View ArticleEnergy East pipeline: time to spike it?
It’s a nation builder; it’s an environmental disaster waiting to happen. It’s TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline and it’s either an energy feast or an energy beast. You can argue both sides of the...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki: We can all be 21st-century scientists
Our ancestors may not have called themselves “citizen scientists” or organized to collect data for scientific inquiry, but they were keen observers of the natural world. Their survival often depended...
View ArticleNASA video: A stunning new portrait of carbon dioxide
An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl...
View ArticleFall of ancient civilization offers climate warning
Relief carving from a palace in Nineveh, showing Assyrian corpses floating on a river (now in Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Italy).Image: Sailko via Wikimedia Commons Prolonged drought – a familiar...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki: Homegrown ingenuity brings nature to the city
Canada’s newest “national park” is a vibrant patchwork of green space meandering through dynamic downtown neighbourhoods in one of Canada’s densest metropolises, along the former path of a creek...
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