The woolly mammoth went extinct in North America thousands of years ago, but a great white elephant is going to ground in British Columbia.
Tag: Climate Crisis
Amidst a record fire season, British Columbia tries to get ready for future climate damage
Eby is acting in a fire season in which 8,687 square miles have already burned, with one fire in northeast B.C. larger in size than the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. The province, once nicknamed Canada’s “lotus land”, has been hit with a succession of climate calamities in recent years.
Courageous young Montanans have just won an important legal victory for climate justice
“Plaintiffs have a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment which includes climate as part of the environmental life support,” Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Kathy Seeley wrote in a groundbreaking opinion.
As climate catastrophes envelop the world, it’s business as usual for fossil fuel zealots
The Earth is telling us as loudly as it can that it’s got a fever. But a frighteningly large percentage of humanity isn’t listening and doesn’t care, a stance encouraged by fossil fuel zealots profiting from the planet’s destruction.
Canada can’t catch a break: Raging fires now threaten Yellowknife and Kelowna, B.C.
With a little over a month to go until the autumnal equinox, blazes are wreaking havoc across the country, with significant fires in every province and territory.
Kamala Harris talks climate damage amidst a summer of record heat and extreme weather
“It is clear the clock is not just ticking, it is banging,” Harris told a crowd at the McKinstry, a Seattle based firm which has been a national leader in energy-efficient building construction.
The Ostrich Effect: Right wingers threatened by reality are putting their heads in the sand
A look at today’s world evokes the Armageddon worries we used to occasionally hear from Ronald Reagan.
Earth is heating up faster than many models suggested while humanity continues to dither
The climate crisis is a truly global concern. It has intensified in equatorial regions, yes, but also impacted our livable region and extended to both poles.
Canada’s TransMountain pipeline expansion: A hideous crime against the climate
This must-read, highly illustrated story depicts how one of Canada’s largest dirty petroleum infrastructure projects has become a feast for connoisseurs of ugliness.
Sorry, local Republicans, but higher gas prices aren’t the winning issue you think they are
Republicans seem to be calculating that once Washingtonians are frustrated enough with high gas prices, public support for policies like the Climate Commitment Act will evaporate. However, our research suggests they are wrong.
The Earth is warning us of the consequences of continued climate inaction. Will we listen?
Consequences of climate damage have hit home this spring, from waters of the Atlantic Ocean to boreal forests of Alberta to the Mariana Islands of the Pacific Ocean. As our politicians fiddle with manufactured issues, the Earth burns.
The oil sands province of Alberta: Where extreme weather meets extreme politics
The political climate of Canada’s oil producing province is being upstaged by Mother Nature. Prolonged heat and lightning have produced a natural climate emergency with fires blackening the skies and consuming more than 2.3 million acres in a not-so-merry month of May.
Washington is making important, long overdue investments in environmental equity
In this guest post for NPI, Senators Joe Nguyễn and Rebecca Saldaña explain how the Evergreen State is prioritizing equity in our response to the climate crisis.
Biden-Harris administration reportedly plans to approve Willow oil drilling project in Alaska
Environmental groups have campaigned against what the Sierra Club has described as “a climate disaster waiting to happen.” A change.org petition opposing Willow had drawn 3.1 million signatures and an estimated 1.1 million unique letters have descended on the White House.