Environment minister Guilbeault must show ‘courage’ to finalize plastics treaty, says NDP MP Johns
The final round of negotiations to develop a global agreement to end plastic pollution by 2040 is scheduled to take place in South Korea from Nov. 25-Dec. 1.
Development needs can conflict with nature, but with knowledge we can grow together
Digital land-use planning tools, local and Indigenous knowledge can help us get the best bang for our conservation buck.
We must temper hype around AI with sober reflection on its climate impacts
While AI offers the promise of transformational leaps in efficiency, productivity, and innovation, it comes with significant costs, including to the environment.
Doing the same things over and again will not lead to different results
As the urgency of climate change escalates, the need for a comprehensive and co-ordinated policy framework becomes increasingly crucial.
It is never too late to make brave and bold decisions that preserve a survivable climate
Without making the 2030 goal deeper and urgent, net-zero emissions by 2050 is dangerous.
An enthralling exploration of the Petrocene Age
In Fire Weather, John Vaillant combines history, science, and Promethean fable to place the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfires as a harbinger of a new fire century.
Nuclear energy never will be ‘clean,’ write Jones and Edwards
The 2024 federal budget contains many references to nuclear energy as a “clean” source of electricity. In our view, referring to nuclear electricity as “clean” is the height of absurdity. The nuclear fuel chain begins with the mining of uranium from rock underground where, without human intervention, it would remain safely locked away from the biosphere. Uranium […]
Vaillant’s Fire Weather looks at devastating synergy between our dependence on fossil fuels and its impact on the climate
Below is an excerpt from Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, by John Vaillant, published by Knopf Canada, one of the five finalists for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Coral reef condoms: how to save a dying ecosystem
The efforts making the most progress is an attempt at ‘assisted’ evolution. It’s really a glorified form of selective breeding, choosing the most heat-resistant of each generation of coral polyps as the parents of the next.
Canada’s investment in AI should inform a global ‘rights-based’ approach
Canada has a role to play in pushing its influence on the world stage. Right now, we are currently fifth in terms of AI capacity on the Tortoise Global Index, yet is 23rd in actual AI infrastructure.
