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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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Reindeer will feel effects of climate change: study
The heat is on for the world’s caribou with a new study warning the creatures could lose as much as 60 per cent of their range within 60 years. Caribou, often called reindeer, are among the most...
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Harper government gave oil and pipeline companies $400M to go green
OTTAWA – Canadian taxpayers have given more than $400 million to some large oil, gas and pipeline companies in recent years to support green projects that are also boosting the industry’s environmental...
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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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