The 21st century is an exciting time for young people. Technology like e-mail and social-networking Web sites makes connecting with people easier than before, and Google puts a...
Andrew Weaver’s recently published book, Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World, is an urgent call to action that some of the folks running for the privilege of leading us...
Leaders of nations worldwide know we are near more than one environmental tipping point. So they've met to hammer out agreements in crucial areas such as biodiversity loss and...
How much is a forest worth? And how do we calculate that value? Do we simply count the trees and figure out how much we could get for them if we were to cut them down and turn...
With all the elections coming this fall and winter, global warming is bound to spike up with the increased hot air! South of the border they’re electing a president, here in...
Now in the seventh decade of my life, I look back at the world of my childhood, with its shared phone lines, ice boxes, radio soap operas, and no television, and it seems like an...
If presented with the autopsied brains of a diverse array of people, no expert would be able to distinguish from the brains’ anatomy or neurocircuitry the gender, religion, or...
If we want to protect an endangered animal such as the woodland caribou, we have to do more than just study the animal in isolation. We must understand how it interacts with its...
In 2005, I attended an international conference in Montreal on the Kyoto Protocol. There, I heard a speech by German parliamentarian Dr. Hermann Scheer. I knew nothing about him,...
Are Canadian politicians finally paying serious attention to the environment? Recent events and announcements give us reason for optimism.
Last week, we wrote about the...
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