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Newfoundland and Labrador Plans 650,000 Barrels Per Day by 2030
With Canada’s Harper-era emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement barely on life support, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador has introduced a new ... -
Mikisew Cree Lose Supreme Court Case on Duty to Consult, While Heiltsuk Nation Files Suit in Nathan E. Stewart Spill
The Mikisew Cree First Nation in northern Alberta is vowing to carry on the fight, after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against the ... -
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Super-Heated Ocean Boosts Hurricane Michael into 250-Kilometre-Per-Hour ‘Monster’
Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle Wednesday as the most powerful storm to hit the continental United States in nearly 50 years, packing ... -
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Climate Home News Compiles ‘37 Things to Know’ About IPCC’s 1.5°C Report
The UN published a summary on the science of 1.5°C global warming on Monday. It’s a big deal. -
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1.5°C Is Doable, but Just a Dozen Years Left to Get on a Low-Carbon Pathway
Humanity has a dozen years to hold off the accelerated risks of extreme heat waves, wildfires, flooding, drought, sea level rise, and extensive poverty ... -
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Alarming Findings in IPCC Report Become ‘Thunderous Call to Action’
With representatives of more than 130 countries and about 50 scientists gathered in Incheon, South Korea to negotiate final details of the IPCC’s 1.5°C ... -
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EU Sought Stricter Adherence to 1.5°C Limit
As negotiations in Incheon, South Korea were reaching a pivot point late last week, the European Union called for a strict interpretation of the ... -
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Pipeline Roundup: Ottawa Accepts Appeal Court Decision, Notley Supports ‘Indefinite’ Indigenous Consultation, and Environment Commissioner Scorches Marine Mammal Protections
Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi announced Wednesday that the Canadian government won’t appeal the late August Federal Court of Appeal ruling that suspended federal ... -
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Economic Costs of Climate Change Will Hit Hardest in India, U.S.
The future economic costs of climate change will hit hardest in India and the United States, according to a new study published last week ... -
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Rising Carbon Levels Reduce Ocean Oxygen Levels, Subjecting North Atlantic Species to ‘Slow Suffocation’
Atlantic wolffish and cod and Greenland halibut are at risk of slow suffocation as climate change drives oxygen depletion in the cold waters off ... -
Offshore Seismic Testing for Oil and Gas Could Endanger Marine Food Chains
U.S. fossils are pushing back after research found that a common technique used in offshore oil and gas exploration endangers marine food chains by ... -
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CARE Canada: Fighting Plastics Pollution No Substitute for G7 Action on Climate Impacts
G7 countries’ initiative to attack plastic pollution during this week’s environment and energy ministers’ meeting in Halifax is no substitute for faster action to ... -
Ottawa Unveils Marine Protected Area Off B.C. After Shell Gives Up Exploration Permits
Shell Canada is giving up offshore exploration permits covering 50,000 square kilometres off the British Columbia coast, an area 1.5 times the size of ... -
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‘Toxic Bitumen Export Corridor’ Exposes Salish Sea to Unacceptable Risk, Officials Tell Trudeau
Citing the recent death of a killer whale calf as “our canary in a coal mine,” elected officials from a number of Salish Sea ... -
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Ørsted Opens World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Project Off Northwest England
The 659-megawatt Walney Extension offshore wind project became the world’s biggest of its kind when it opened off the northwest English coast last week, ...
