Air pollution makes people more vulnerable to respiratory infections; climate change brings people in closer contact with animals that can spread disease.
Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben says the adaptations we make to fight the COVID-19 outbreak could hold valuable lessons elsewhere — in the efforts to mitigate climate change. 10:56
The Trudeau government should not use the oil-price crash and the economic downturn stemming from a public-health crisis as an excuse to back away from environmental commitments in the upcoming federal budget, warned a coalition of civil society leaders.
Speaking on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, representatives from Indigenous, labour, social justice and other organizations said now was not the time for Canada to shy away from tackling the climate emergency.
IF YOU’VE BEEN spending any time online or watching cable TV, you’ve gotten the message that humanity now faces two grave threats — a novel coronavirus and the crashing stock market — of roughly equal importance.
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Ireland has agreed to hear a climate lawsuit against the Irish government, due in part, the court said, to the “degree of urgency” posed by climate change. The decision makes the suit, dubbed “Climate Case Ireland” by the plaintiffs, Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), one of only a handful of human rights-based climate cases to reach any country’s Supreme Court.
Norwegian colossal fossil Equinor announced late last month that it is abandoning a US$200-million plan to drill for oil in the deep waters of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park, the third retreat for a parade of oil and gas explorers that also includes BP and Chevron.
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