Climate Change | The Walrus

Environment / October 2019

What to Read When the World is On Fire

September 23, 2019October 6, 2019 - by Arno Kopecky

The new wave of climate change writing

Illustration Juxtaposing an Image of a Thread of Cloth in the Laundry Room Against the Same Thread Polluting the Ocean

April 2018 / Environment

How Our Clothing Poisons the Environment

March 20, 2018August 9, 2019 - by Tina Knezevic

Microfibres are the scourge of our waterways. One man in Nova Scotia says he has a solution

Image of a Polluted City

Should Oil Companies Be on the Hook for Climate Change Costs?

January 26, 2018August 2, 2019 - by Christopher Pollon

From wild fires to rising sea levels, ecological disasters are expected to cost Canada $5 billion per year by 2020—and some communities want big oil to pay its share

How a Federal Agency Helps Finance Some of the World’s Most Corrupt Regimes

December 19, 2017July 16, 2019 - by Richard Poplak

Export Development Canada has perfected the art of lending billions of taxpayer dollars to scandal-ridden foreign buyers. But its transparency could use some work

Environment / January/February 2018

Our Obsession with Glass Is Killing Birds

December 15, 2017July 17, 2019 - by Moira Farr

We’ve designed our buildings with shiny, transparent, or mirrored surfaces that hundreds crash into day after day

Illustration by Ashley Mackenzie

Environment / September 2017

The Reason More People Don’t Drive Electric Cars

August 17, 2017July 17, 2019 - by Cam Sylvester

Without a national charging system, eco vehicles are just fancy toys

Photo by Portland General Electric

Environment / Web Exclusives

It Is Engineers, Not Politicians, Who Can Solve Climate Change

June 13, 2017July 17, 2019 - by Jon Evans

We don’t need another climate accord. We need cheap solar panels and electric cars

Photograph by Darek Nakonieczny

Environment / Web Exclusives

Making Muskrat Right

November 1, 2016July 17, 2019 - by Andreae Callanan

Over budget, delayed, and environmentally hazardous—Labrador’s hydroelectric project is a mess

Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey

Fort McMurray is a humanitarian disaster

May 20, 2016July 17, 2019 - by Chris Turner

It’s sadly ironic that the city had to empty out in an emergency for the rest of Canada to come to properly understand it.

Photograph by greensefa

Environment / Web Exclusives

Talking under Water

November 27, 2015July 17, 2019 - by Alexander Tesar

What’s at stake for the Paris conference on climate change?