HOW CAN A BANK for wealthy venture capitalists, tech bros and people such as ultraconservative billionaire Peter Thiel be “woke”? Or the U.S. military? What does [Continue]
AS WITH MUCH of human activity, we’ve exploited and polluted the oceans without really understanding them. We know more about the moon and Mars than what lies beneath the [Continue]
ON FEBRUARY 3, a 150-car train carrying toxic chemicals derailed near East Palestine, Ohio. Close to half the town’s 4,700 residents had to evacuate as deadly gas and smoke [Continue]
THE 27th ANNUAL Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recently wrapped up, and the world continues to burn. Despite positive [Continue]
OUR CONSUMERIST-CAPITALIST economic system was conceived relatively recently, albeit when conditions were far different than today. But we’re now so entrenched in it that [Continue]
SOMETIMES there’s too much water; sometimes not enough. A major challenge with global heating is that it doesn’t necessarily cause more or less of something in a specific [Continue]
NEAR THE END of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns to the people around him and says, “We really did have [Continue]
BEAVERS HAVE LONG BEEN considered nuisances. They knock down trees and block waterways, often flooding areas where humans live and gather. But recent moves to leave the [Continue]
CANADA OFFERS some of the world’s most generous support for the fossil fuel industry, but industry executives want more. Even as they amass record profits, they’ve asked [Continue]
MOST OF US have seen images of sea turtles malformed by plastic six-pack rings, dead birds with stomachs full of debris, animals smothered by plastic bags… Our excessive [Continue]
CANADA COULD BE a clean electricity powerhouse by 2035 — without building more large hydro dams or relying on expensive and sometimes unproven and dangerous technologies [Continue]
IT’S A TRAGIC TRUTH that some people are willing to inflict unfathomable suffering and death for the sake of power and wealth. From Russia’s aggression in Ukraine to [Continue]
WE USUALLY THINK of ecosystems as landscapes outside ourselves. After all, aren’t we strikingly singular — unique in and for our thoughts, abilities and personalities? [Continue]
GEOLOGISTS HAVE CLASSIFED most epochs in Earth’s history according to fossils, radiometric dating and composition of the strata. The widely endorsed label for our current [Continue]