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Learning the language of climate solutions

If someone had told me how hard learning another language was I wouldn't have tried.

Post Carbon Pathways: how to dodge a climate change bullet

We know what we need to do to solve climate change. This report launched last week aims to start building a pathway to get there.

Happy birthday, Carbon Talks

Carbon Talks formally launches today with its new website. It’s a project of Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue in association with three other faculties and was created to “accelerate the...

Overheating Canada helps freeze Europe

Canada is an overheating hotspot in the midst of the hottest year and hottest November ever recorded. Our dramatic warming is helping bury Europe in a deep-freeze.

Half of BC pines dead from fossil fuel pollution. Is it over?

Half our pine trees have been eaten alive in just the last nine years. A killing plague of billions of native pine beetles has been unleashed by the rapid, fossil-fuelled warming of BC. How bad will i

Hottest year broils an unprecedented 18 nations

Earth just sweltered through the hottest 12 months ever recorded by humans. Along the way an unprecedented 18 nations suffered their hottest day in history. One of these broke the record for the entir