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David Suzuki: Better vehicle standards drive innovation and benefit citizens

Transportation accounts for about a quarter of Canada’s greenhouse-gas emissions, making it the second-highest source, slightly behind the oil and gas industry. In the U.S., it’s...

David Suzuki: Kinder Morgan pipeline controversy proves need to shift course

On March 31, an underwater pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in Balikpapan, Indonesia, broke, spreading crude over 20,000 hectares of Balikpapan Bay. Some of it ignited, killing...

David Suzuki: Reports emphasize urgent need to reverse biodiversity decline

We have ample evidence that we're facing a biodiversity crisis. It's time to act.

David Suzuki: Audit exposes Canadian climate failures

Scientists, academics, environmentalists, and communicators have urged governments to take the climate crisis seriously for decades. We’ve outlined the overwhelming evidence,...

David Suzuki: We’re drowning in seas of plastic

The fossil-fuel era must end or it will spell humanity’s end.

David Suzuki: SUVs and trucks nullify car-efficiency gains

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency increased safety and environmental standards for cars in the 1970s, automakers responded. Although they had to adhere to the new...

David Suzuki: Lessons from Cape Town's water crisis

Many of us in Canada take water for granted, despite drinking-water problems in First Nations communities, the subject of a recent column.

David Suzuki: Renewable communities produce energy, jobs, and hope

Anishinaabe economist and writer Winona LaDuke identifies two types of economies, grounded in different ways of seeing. Speaking in Vancouver recently, she characterized one as an...

David Suzuki: Climate-science deniers’ credibility tested

We base our arguments about environmental issues on sound research and evidence. Sometimes people challenge us—which is often positive, as informed debate leads to greater...

David Suzuki: We can’t close our eyes to climate change

Contrary to a common perception, ignoring climate change won’t make it disappear.