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United States moves to cut power plant carbon emissions by 30 per cent
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a 30 per cent cut in carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, a hefty reduction that is expected to ignite a fierce battle pitting...
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Five Canadian cities tearing up asphalt to help reduce flash-flooding risk
OTTAWA — They paved paradise, and put up a flood zone. Five cities across Canada will see some of their asphalt torn up and replaced with porous brick and gravel this summer to help mitigate the flash...
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Canada more ‘frank’ than rest of world on climate change: Harper
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says there’s not a country in the world that would take action on climate change at the expense of its own economy — no matter what it might say. Canada wants to...
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Australian prime minister’s stance on climate change could cloud the air in...
WASHINGTON — The United States has few closer allies than Australia but climate change could prove a touchy issue when Australia’s conservative prime minister makes his first White House visit...
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Embattled coal industry gets parade in West Virginia
By Alexander Panetta MADISON, W.Va. — Elsewhere it’s being vilified, regulated and undercut by competition. Here, coal gets a parade. A hilly West Virginia county that prides itself as the cradle of...
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California’s thirst is moving mountains
California may be in the midst of a severe drought, but plump, juicy strawberries and raspberries continue to roll north by the truckload. And they are still affordable despite predictions of price...
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Toronto will feel like North Miami by 2100: climate change report
Summers in Toronto will feel like North Miami by the year 2100, according to data from climate change researchers. The U.S.-based Climate Coalition projected what average summer (June, July and August)...
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Den Tandt: Harper cements northern legacy despite glaring policy omissions
BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut — As Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads back to the office, concluding his ninth Arctic summer tour, his strategists and senior staff will be congratulating themselves on a job...
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Rock snot? What rock snot? Interview request sets off public relations flurry
By Dene Moore VANCOUVER — It was a story about rock snot. And if there’s a person you want to talk to about the pervasive algae also known by the less-offensive, more scientific name of Didymo, it’s...
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Fall weather trends will follow in summer’s footsteps, forecasters say
TORONTO — One of Canada’s most prominent forecasters says weather watchers need only look back at the summer to see what Mother Nature has in store for the fall. The Weather Network’s fall outlook says...
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Climate change to wipe out, move habitat for hundreds of birds species: Audubon
The Audubon Society says climate change will destroy habitat for hundreds of bird species. A new report from the group says dozens of species will lose more than half their range with no chance of...
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Canadians head to NYC to join climate protest; want Harper at UN summit
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Dozens of Canadians have travelled to New York City to take part in a march calling for action on climate change. Organizer Stu Basden says his group, Toronto 350, bussed about 275...
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Canada joins pledge at United Nations climate summit to cut emissions
NEW YORK — As global carbon emissions continue their record-breaking rise, Canada has joined more than 100 other countries at the United Nations climate summit to pledge action amid widespread cynicism...
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Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson makes pipeline fight a key plank of...
VANCOUVER — The mayor of British Columbia’s most populous city is making his fight against Kinder Morgan’s oil pipeline expansion a key plank of his re-election campaign. British Columbia...
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Natural gas debate: Cracks in ‘bridge’ to clean energy future
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark sees a big role for natural gas in the “clean energy future.” “Natural gas is a climate solution – it is widely recognized as a transition fuel,” according to the...
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U.S. Congress struggles to bring Keystone approval to a vote
WASHINGTON – Once again the six-year battle over Canada’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline has turned into a political football in the United States. This time the gridiron has shifted to Louisiana...
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Coyne: Obama’s new climate change agreement leaves Canada biting the dust
For a lame duck, Barack Obama is looking distinctly frisky. In the days since his Democratic Party took a pasting in the midterm elections, the U.S. president has been moving quickly across a number of...
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Nova Scotia should introduce carbon tax and expand HST, report says
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia should introduce a carbon tax like British Columbia has done and broaden its harmonized sales tax to cover previously exempt items including children’s clothing, diapers and home...
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Kathleen Wynne says putting a value on carbon is important
After signing an agreement with Quebec on climate change, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne wouldn’t say when a carbon tax might be introduced. Wynne says putting a price on carbon is “very important.”
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UN secretary general chides Canada on climate change record, CBC reports
TORONTO — The secretary general of the United Nations is calling on Canada to become more “ambitious and visionary” in dealing with issues like climate change. In an interview with CBC News, Ban...
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Government abandoning basic science, muzzling scientists
OTTAWA — The federal government “really doesn’t grasp what science is about” and could find itself unable to respond to averse environmental changes because it has abandoned climate change and water...
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Environment Canada opinion survey reveals skepticism of government action on...
OTTAWA — Not many Canadians can think of things the Conservative government has done to mitigate climate change and some feel the government has done more harm than good, suggests focus group research...
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No more glory for former Olympic cities as climate warms
The planet is warming so quickly that a new report predicts Winter Olympic cities like Vancouver and Sochi will be out of luck in future. It says only six of the previous 19 Winter Olympic sites will...
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Six decades of climate change visualized by NASA
Put this in your pipe and smoke it until it turns into carbon emissions, climate change deniers. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) released a report and stunning visualization last week...
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Climate change is increasing penguin chick deaths: study
A nearly 30-year long study has concluded that climate change is increasing the death rate for Magellanic penguins chicks on Argentina’s coast. The study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, tracked...
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Europeans should get their house in order before taking Canada to task over...
Europeans have never been shy about calling out Canada for everything from the harvesting of baby seals to its treatment of aboriginal peoples to, of course, the great abomination of the moment, which...
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U.S. State Department raises no environmental objection to Keystone XL pipeline
WASHINGTON – A critical U.S. government environmental study states that the controversial Keystone XL pipeline will have no significant environmental or climate change impact, essentially giving U.S....
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William Marsden: The real issue over Keystone is America’s addiction to oil
WASHINGTON – In the mishmash of speculation and assumptions that have driven the U.S. national debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, there is one undeniable fact no American wants to talk about....
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William Marsden: Elizabeth May joins Obama prayer breakfast
WASHINGTON – Who could blame her? After decades of walking a landscape of empty promises on climate change, Elizabeth May is taking time off for prayer. The Green Party leader and MP from British...
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Feds need to do more to fight climate change, finds deputy ministers’ report
OTTAWA — A secret report from a committee of federal deputy ministers stresses the need for the federal government to further combat climate change and manage the risks that threaten Canadian...
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Obama promises decision on Keystone XL in couple of months
WASHINGTON – After more than five years of often inflamed debate, U.S. President Barack Obama says he will decide on the fate of the troubled Keystone XL pipeline “one way or another in a couple of...
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Google Street View maps ‘Polar Bear Capital of the World’ in northern Canada
By Michael Oliveira Google Maps users can now virtually trek across the frozen tundra outside Churchill, Man., and spy on the local residents, who weren’t shy about posing for the cameras. Known as the...
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Canada needs stronger environmental credentials to achieve energy goals, top...
OTTAWA – Two of Canada’s leading conservative power players served notice Friday that Canada must do more to both strengthen and trumpet the country’s environmental credentials if it expects to fight...
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U.S. likely to force oil and gas regulations as price for Keystone pipeline,...
WASHINGTON – The United States will probably force Canada to agree to greenhouse gas emission regulations for its oil and gas industry in return for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, Saskatchewan...
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Keystone XL called powerful weapon against Putin
WASHINGTON — The Keystone XL pipeline would be a powerful weapon against countries like Russia that use their energy resources to intimidate countries such as Ukraine, according to retired Marine Corps...
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In climate change battle, it’s time we started selling sustainability
By Bruce Philp For Postmedia News I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of being harangued by tweedy academics and tree huggers about global warming. David Suzuki’s baleful countenance seems to hover...
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Climate change expert sees ‘brighter, smarter’ future for planet
VANCOUVER — Tom Pedersen sounds almost upbeat about climate change, putting a positive spin on the decidedly gloomy subject. “You must never lose hope,” says Pedersen, executive director of the Pacific...
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New U.S. ambassador Heyman focuses squarely on climate change
OTTAWA — The new United States Ambassador to Canada says developed countries must take responsibility for climate change, but — as a decision looms on the Keystone XL pipeline — he stresses that energy...
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Nobel laureates condemn Keystone as climate-change trigger
WASHINGTON — Ten Nobel Peace Prize winners from as far afield as Yemen, South Africa and Argentina have signed a letter asking U.S. President Barack Obama to deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline...
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Canada’s threats, whining and naivete botched Keystone XL
WASHINGTON – Jane Kleeb was about as blunt as you can get. “TransCanada fumbled things from the beginning,” the Nebraskan activist said. “If they would have listened to the majority of Nebraskans they...
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President Barack Obama’s weather offensive (with video)
There’s a new storm front coming in across Washington’s Beltway – call it the Obama weather offensive. In a strange twist of out-of-the-box thinking, White House officials have taken the time to look...
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Parts of West Antarctic ice sheet starting to collapse, scientists find
WASHINGTON — The huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, two new studies show. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they...
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Cyclones moving further from tropics and toward larger populations, study finds
WASHINGTON — Tropical cyclones worldwide are moving out of the tropics and more toward the poles and generally larger populations, likely because of global warming, a surprising new study finds....
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Environmental groups fire legal warning shots at energy companies over...
EDMONTON — Environmental groups are taking inspiration from the legal fight against tobacco to fire warning shots at major energy companies over their alleged role in funding climate change denial and...
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Desmond Tutu calls oilsands ‘filth,’ urges cooperation on environment
Bob Weber FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu has called Alberta’s oilsands “filth” created by greed, and has urged all sides to work together to protect the environment and...
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U.S. government seeks to cut pollution from power plants by 30 per cent by 2030
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday will roll out a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 per cent by 2030, setting in motion one of the most significant actions to...
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For the third time in a decade, the Earth had its hottest year on record
By Seth Borenstein WASHINGTON — For the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record, federal scientists announced Friday. Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Keystone XL pipeline passes in U.S. Senate
By Jim Snyder and Kathleen Hunter The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate passed a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, setting up a conflict with President Barack Obama who has promised a veto. The...
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Miami Beach marks centennial with 100 hours of free events, celebrity-studded...
By Jennifer Kay MIAMI — To stage a centennial celebration, officials here sought local talent to highlight their commitment to creativity and sense of community. Since this is Miami Beach, that local...
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Different generations, same warrior spirit
A generation and an ocean apart, Mary Robinson and Severn Cullis-Suzuki stand up for causes they care about, leading the charge for meaningful change. A lawyer with a passion for social justice,...
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