A brown bear swims across a lake. In the background are the trees and mountains of the Great Bear Rainforest.

The World’s Last Rainforests Are Under Threat

February 5, 2020February 7, 2020 - by Jimmy Thomson

A $25 million carbon-offset project is struggling to find buyers, and the Great Bear Rainforest is on the line

Jason Kenney speaks at a conference in November 2019.

Politics

What Jason Kenney’s War Room Is Costing Alberta

January 14, 2020January 17, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

The province’s failure to consider climate risk may lose it billions in global investment

Books / January/February 2020

Climate Fiction’s Unhelpful Obsession With the End of the World

January 9, 2020 - by Damian Tarnopolsky

We already have plenty of stories about the apocalypse. Now, we need ones that imagine new futures

An aerial shot of a table laden with dishes of food, and several pairs of hands reaching across to serve and eat the food.

Society

A Future Without Butter

December 4, 2019December 10, 2019 - by Lenore Newman

Ecological collapse is threatening food systems that have existed for centuries

Environment / November 2019

We’re Doomed. Now What?

November 4, 2019November 6, 2019 - by Chris Turner

An optimist’s guide to the climate crisis

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, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Tina Knezevic

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

Environment

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

January 26, 2018November 11, 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

Illustration of upside down maple leaf with two people exchanging suitcase full of money

Politics

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

December 19, 2017November 17, 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, 2017December 17, 2019 - by Moira Farr

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