Ecocide & Nature Rights

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Canada’s newly elected Liberal government must step into a greater climate leadership role on the international stage and make smart choices at home in the face of compounding challenges, leaders at environmental advocacy organization Stand.earth said today.  As communities in Canada contend with more […]

Clean energy makes society better. It’s affordable. It’s healthy. It creates good-paying jobs and choices for consumers. But increasingly, we’re seeing misin...

As noted in my previous article, Canada and Quebec’s commercial entanglement in the US economy is profound following thirty years of “free trade,” with neoliberal capitalism as its legacy. Suddenly, Trump has thrown this aside for an attempt to neo-fascistize the US and the world. The result is an abrupt…

By Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Marianne Lavelle, & Wyatt Myskow One hundred days into the second Trump

Climate change is everywhere. Moving to a new place because it seems less affected is a fool’s errand

In a recent interview, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney spoke about how private finance is increasingly aligned behind achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. He underlined that people everywhere should keep up the pressure in calling for climate action. Read more here.

Microplastics are everywhere- from the water bottles we use to our clothes. While they are a serious health concern for all humans, research has found that it particularly impacts those with dementia.

Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

Climate change has been all but ignored in the Australian election campaign, and world leaders are giving up on the cause, even as the heat rises.

A youth-led climate case is heading back to court. Following a ruling from Ontario’s top court, the stage is set for a resolution of this groundbreaking case.

The emerging global competition for green innovation, markets and investments might boost prosperity without improving environmental sustainability.

Oil and gas companies want everyday people to believe that we're driving the climate crisis. In fact, here are the influential players behind Canada's oil an...

In DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, you can browse our extensive research on the individuals and organizations that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight global warming.

In this introductory video, I explore Murray Bookchin's groundbreaking work, The Ecology of Freedom, and discuss how capitalism actively disconnects us from ...

As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming […]

Donald Trump's raucous return to the White House is emblematic of how an ascendant far-right movement is coordinating to defeat climate policies and push a fossil fuel agenda across North America, the UK, and Europe.

Here’s a tiny question. In your darker moments — do you wonder if, well, in some elemental sense, the world around us is ending? That things have changed? Doesn’t something deep down in your gut…

1 in 3 people on Planet Earth are living through a record-breaking heatwave right now. Thailand has just recorded the hottest temperatures it’s ever had — 45ºC (113ºF) — and a record breaking heat…

There are headlines, and then there are headlines. I was scanning the news this morning, and this jumped out and slapped me right in the face: Whew. Sound like a big deal? It should. If it doesn’t…

Good question. Deceptively simple — yet a deep, profound question. Let’s talk about it. Let me rephrase the question, in a way I’ll come back to. What is The Age of Extinction, sociopolitically? It’s…

They’re calling it the first global heatwave. In China, the temperature reached 52.2ºC (126ºF), shattering records. In Arizona, it was 47ºC (116ºF). In California, 128ºF (53.33ºC). In the Persian…

Extinction summer. Four great heat domes stretch across the globe. The planet, they say, is burning, and the oceans boiling. And people are startled, shocked, and bewildered. This fast? This hard…

It’s been an apocalyptic summer. Our first Extinction Summer. Look around and tell me things are going well. Sicily. Greece. Canada. On fire. Oceans, boiling. Those orange skies over Manhattan were…

How do you feel looking around the world? Depressed, anxious, bewildered, bereft? We have the pathetic spectacle of the first criminal trial of an American President — and the current front runner…

Ahead of your annual Thanksgiving tête-à-tête with your right-wing uncle, Matthew Klippenstein reads Bjorn Lomborg’s 'False Alarm' so you don’t have to.

Two prominent ‘lukewarmers’ take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at best

Bob Ward reviews Bjorn Lomborg’s new book, False Alarm, finding the misuse of outdated, concocted and misinterpreted numbers on the costs of climate action and concluding that the book’s central claim that the ‘optimal’ level of global warming by 2100 would be 3.75˚C was completely out-of-date before it was even published.

Debunking the claims of the climate-change skeptic.