Don’t let stock markets reports convince you that when the markets are up, all is well in the world. When the market is up, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is up, and the global environment is down.
Organisations can use offsets as part of their emission reduction strategy.
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The global environmental crisis is overwhelming, but showing children how they can take care of their immediate environment can empower them to feel like they can make a difference.
A new study found shallow water corals with high temperature tolerance in their DNA. Could they make reefs more resilient to climate change?
Droplets rising from the Champagne vent on the ocean floor in the Mariana Islands. Fluids venting from the site contain dissolved carbon dioxide.
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Thousands of years ago, carbon gases trapped on the seafloor escaped, causing drastic warming that helped end the last ice age. A scientist says climate change could cause this process to repeat.
Bill Shorten tearfully responded to the latest attack aimed at him by News Corp – a move that seemingly backfired for the Murdoch media empire.
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Lack of scrutiny of the Coalition, barrage of criticism aimed at Labor: News Corp’s coverage of the election campaign has been the definition of partisan.
A traffic jam on a busy highway near Vancouver, B.C.
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Vehicles in Canada are big, heavy and guzzle a lot of gasoline.
Agriculture – including methane from cows and sheep – currently contributes almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse emissions.
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New Zealand’s government has released a bill that sets targets to bring long-lived greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050 and reduce emissions of the shorter-lived methane by 10% within a decade.
Can a country move ahead when its citizens hold dueling facts?
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How can a community decide the direction it should go, if its members cannot even agree on where they are? Two political scientists say the growing phenomenon of dueling facts threatens democracy.
The Trudeau government’s federal price on carbon survived Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s challenge.
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New research finds that farm ponds actually capture nitrous oxide; this finding can be useful in combatting climate change.
Residents, friends and volunteers work to hold back floodwaters on the Ottawa River in Constance Bay, Ont., earlier this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick.
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Razzmatazz aside, the opposition leader - standing in front of Labor’s slogan “A Fair Go For Australia” - brought together the “case for change” in a carefully-honed, strongly delivered address.
The now former Liberal candidate for Lyons, Jessica Whelan avoided media questions as she trailed behind Morrison in Tasmania.
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