PRESERVE: Reconciliation & Sustainability... or Ecocide

Pamela Palmater on the government's relationship with Canada's First Nations.

The Four Pillars of the Crow Shield Lodge are Education, Healing, Reconciliation, and Land Stewardship

Environmental Defence is a group of innovative and determined problem-solvers who are making a difference defending clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities.

Ekō is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we're not afraid to stand up to them when they don't.

🌱 Education for feminism, ecology and direct democracy. 🌱 Established 1974 by Murray Bookchin and Dan Chodorkoff.

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.

Award winning website researching and exposing campaigns attacking climate change science.

Here are 7 quick highlights from the Office of the Correctional Investigator, Ten Years since Spirit Matters: Indigenous Issues in Federal Corrections (released November 1, 2023). It is based on “over 200 interviews with...

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.

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B.C.’s energy regulator has the power to grant such exemptions — without notifying the public. Experts raise alarm about the process, saying the regulator is playing soft with fossil fuel companies

Thousands of pages detailing abuse and poor conditions are now public and searchable

The Canadian federal election is beset by more mis- and disinformation than ever before, and Canada's National Observer is fact-checking the claims, rumours and accusations swirling through the public information sphere. How can you separate fact from fiction? How can you tell when a claim sounds too good to be true? What are the issues most likely to attract bad information? That’s what we’re here for. Got a question? Email us at factcheck@nationalobserver.com.

The federal election campaign is well underway, and so are efforts to get out the Indigenous vote.But Indigenous issues have been absent from the political d...

The world is facing multiple — potentially catastrophic — crises, including inequality, poverty, food insecurity, climate change and biodiversity loss. These issues are interconnected and require systemic solutions, as changes in one system affects others. However, human systems have largely failed to acknowledge their connection to ecological systems. Most modern societies have dominating and exploitative relationships with nature, which are...