The World We Share

Canada is present and accounted-for at this year’s United Nations climate change conference with a delegation of 225 individuals led by Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and which includes Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, several provincial environment ministers and a handful of members of provincial legislatures. They’ve all travelled to Marrakech, Morocco for COP22 to build on […]

The authorities in New Zealand have confirmed there have been casualties in the powerful earthquake that struck the South Island around 90 kilometres north of Christchurch. Prime Minister John Key has said two people were killed. Police said one of the victims was found in a house in the coastal tourist town of Kaikoura, near

Wellington (dpa) – Ninety per cent of New Zealand’s native sea and shorebirds and more than a quarter of marine mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to an official report released Thursday. Twelve sea and shorebird species, including albatrosses, shags, petrels and penguins, were facing an extremely high risk of extinction, according to

Lola Gayle, STEAM Register Windsurfing is a popular sport. In fact, there were approximately 1.77 million participants in boardsailing and windsurfing in the U.S. alone in 2015. But we humans better watch out because there’s a new competitor to the sport, and they don’t even need special equipment. The beautiful and graceful Mute Swan (Cygnus

If you Google images of Port Salut, Haiti, you’ll see a Caribbean paradise — white sand beaches, coconut trees and inviting turquoise sea. The Hotel Reposoir du Village had a bar on the beach and tables under thatch umbrellas. When I stayed there two years ago, the only problem was an almond tree noisily dropping

A United Nations department has barred a Canadian online news outlet from attending next month’s Conference of the Parties (COP 22) in Morocco. Earlier this month, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat informed The Rebel, the right wing news and opinion platform published by political commentator Ezra Levant, it was rejecting

Panda Jiajia enjoys a cake in Hong Kong on July 28, 2015 as it becomes the longest-living captive panda in the world. [Photo/IC] HONG KONG – The world’s eldest giant panda in captivity Jia Jia was given euthanasia on Sunday at Hong Kong Ocean Park, after her health condition deteriorated rapidly in the past two

In a major international step towards battling climate change, 197 nations hammered out a legally binding deal to cut back on the greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners. The deal – which includes the world’s two biggest economies, the United States and China – divides countries into three groups with different deadlines for

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY,  Taiwan — When Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood tweets, the world listens. And when the 76-year-old writer chanced upon a short YouTube video of a 6-year-old girl in Australia named “Ruby, the Climate Kid,” talking about how she admires environmental activists like David Suzuki, Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Sir David Attenborough