Climate Change

Depiction of specific atmospheric humidity on June 17, 1993.

Mar 2015 | IN Canada’s Map to Sustainability 41.1 | BY George Hoberg James Meadowcroft

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An excerpt from "Acting on Climate Change: Solutions by Canadian Scholars," a position paper from Sustainable Canada Dialogues.

We Can Get There

Mar 2015 | IN Canada’s Map to Sustainability 41.1 | BY Marcia Ruby

Editorial

"Canada's Map to Sustainability" is the most important issue that A\J has ever published.

Breaking Up With Fossil Fuels

Feb 13 2015 | IN Renewables | BY A\J Staff

Love is universal, and so is climate change. Read the winning entries in the Divest Waterloo letter writing contest.

Alabama civil rights movement: Selma to Montgomery march

What "Selma" Can Teach the Canadian Climate Movement

Jan 29 2015 | IN Politicians | BY Cameron Fenton

The civil rights movie is steeped in lessons in organizing and movement strategy – here’s how one group is applying those lessons to the Energy East pipeline.

Land and sea/Photo by Mario Azzi on Unsplash

A composite sketch of rising seas

Oct 19 2018 | IN Scientists | BY Braydon Black

Parallel studies show the dangers of our warming world and its rising seas.

BEF-China's experimental site/Photo by UZH

Quality, not quantity of trees dictates how well forests store carbon

Oct 16 2018 | IN Scientists | BY Hai Lin Wang

Does species richness impact how effectively a forest can absorb excess carbon? A three-country, eight-year study (finally) has answers.

Citizens protesting pipeline expansion in Burnaby, BC/Mark Klotz

No quick or easy resolution to the Trans Mountain pipeline question

Sep 14 2018 | IN First Nations | BY Mark Winfield

The Trans Mountain pipeline court decision will test just how long Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can maintain his energy-environment balancing act.

Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia’s changing climate

Aug 24 2018 | IN Food | BY Jessica Eise, Natalie White

Deep in the Andes Mountains, where growing coffee is a multi-billion business, the creeping impacts of global warming are threatening a way of life.

Smoke blocks out the sun above a wildfire blaze in Colorado/DVIDSHUB CC BY

Policies on petroleum and pipelines move us closer to a ‘Hothouse Canada’

Aug 23 2018 | IN Pipelines | BY Simon Dalby

Propping up the old economy can only lead to 'Hothouse Earth'. But it's not a foregone conclusion.

Toronto's waterfront/Photo by Eugene Aikimov on Unsplash

Building housing on flood plains another sign of growing inequality

Aug 22 2018 | IN Water | BY Deborah de Lange

Major urban centres around the world are having honest conversations about the risks of building in flood plains. But not in Toronto.

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