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- How do you deal with 9m tonnes of suffocating seaweed? Tue, 30 Jun 20, 3:30pmAcross the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, scientists are developing alternative sustainable solutions to the golden tide of Sargassum
- US demand for clean energy destroying Canada's environment, indigenous peoples say Mon, 22 Jun 20, 8:00pmPush is inadvertently causing long-term environmental damage to the traditional hunting grounds on Inuit public lands
- Coronavirus pandemic threatens controversial fracking project in Argentina Wed, 29 Apr 20, 5:00pmLockdown and oil price slump leave future of vast Argentinian shale project hanging in balance
- Coronavirus pandemic could prompt collapse of controversial fracking project Wed, 29 Apr 20, 5:00pmLockdown and oil price slump leave future of vast Argentinian shale project hanging in balance
- Here comes the sun canoe, as Amazonians take on Big Oil Fri, 13 Mar 20, 9:00pmEcuadorian indigenous groups hope innovation will reduce amount of oil taken from forest only to be brought back as pollution
- Anger over World Bank's $55m pledge to Guyana's fossil fuel industry Thu, 27 Feb 20, 5:00pmCampaigners say move is ‘blatant contradiction’ of lender’s climate commitments
- Canadian mining giant withdraws plans for C$20bn tar sands project Tue, 25 Feb 20, 2:36amTeck Resources’ surprise decision drew outrage from politicians in oil-rich Alberta and cheers from environmental groups
- As Nobel prize winners, we demand Justin Trudeau stop the Teck Frontier mine | Nobel prize winners Fri, 21 Feb 20, 10:30pmAll new projects that enable fossil fuel growth are an affront to our state of climate emergency. It is a disgrace Canada is considering them
- Canadian police had 'no authority' to search pipeline activists, says watchdog Fri, 21 Feb 20, 8:12amLetter offers scathing criticism of police’s tactics against Wet’suwet’en people amid growing protest over gas pipeline
- New train blockade piles pressure on Trudeau in Wet'suwet'en pipeline fight Thu, 20 Feb 20, 8:03amGroup of about 20 blocked Canadian National Railway Co rail line near Edmonton, capital of the western province of Alberta
- More protesters block train tracks in Wet'suwet'en pipeline fight Thu, 20 Feb 20, 4:24amGroup of about 20 blocked Canadian National Railway Co rail line near Edmonton, capital of the western province of Alberta
- Justin Trudeau urges 'dialogue and mutual respect' to end rail blockade Wed, 19 Feb 20, 5:23amCanadian prime minister: ‘I know patience is running short’Indigenous activists are protesting against C$6.6bn gas pipelineJustin Trudeau has called for patience and dialogue as his government seeks a peaceful end to...
- Canada: protests go mainstream as support for Wet'suwet'en pipeline fight widens Fri, 14 Feb 20, 9:30pmProtesters have blocked railways and barricaded ports in wave of dissent – and the pressure on Justin Trudeau has increased
- 'We're not giving up': defiant Wet'suwet'en activists gain allies in pipeline fight Fri, 14 Feb 20, 9:30pmPressure on Justin Trudeau’s government grows even as some politicians decry ‘hard-left ideology’
- Canadian police arrest activists at Wet’suwet’en anti-pipeline camp Fri, 7 Feb 20, 8:15amRoyal Canadian Mounted officers arrested at least six people at a roadblock erected by Indigenous people to block construction