Powered by RebelMouse

quebec

Top Tweets
Smiling people with signs marching in support of science.
A blue and white ship at sea with LNG written on the side of it.
Illustration of arm "netting " smokestack emissions
Boy immersed up to nose in floodwaters
EXPLORE
Copyright © RebelMouse 2017
Impacts

Quebec man pleads guilty to what he accused the government of: Starting wildfires

A Quebec resident who last summer had shared conspiracy theories online suggesting that the Canadian government was deliberately starting wildfires to convince people climate change is happening has now pleaded guilty to setting more than a dozen fires.

Impacts

More than 11.5 million tree seedlings destined for Quebec forests were destroyed last year

While reforestation efforts are at the heart of the fight against climate change around the world, more than 11.5 million tree seedlings destined for Quebec forests were destroyed last year. Ironically, it was extreme weather conditions that forced plant nurseries to discard those that did not meet the government's criteria.

Impacts

A ravaged Quebec coast fights climate change by retreating

Against the ravaging seas, Quebec’s coastal communities have learned through bitter experience that the way to advance against climate change is to retreat.

Politics

Fighting climate change, Indigenous people protect Canadian forests

Canada is looking to its Indigenous communities to help manage its boreal forests, the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem and one if its biggest stores of carbon.
Newsletter

Climate reshapes life for tenacious gannets on Quebec isle

Nothing is easy for the gannets. Not in this age of warming seas, competition with trawlers for fish, pollution, supercharged storms and the onset of avian flu.

Solutions

Mostafa Saad: What Quebec can do to tackle climate change

Retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient and regulating the amount of carbon used in the construction of new buildings are among the steps to take.

Impacts

Serge Schmemann: Where have all the cèpes gone?

I have not yet found studies on the impact of climate change on mushrooms in the Laurentians. But mushroom-picking sites, like Mushroom-Collecting.com, have noted the growing scarcity of cèpes.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
aerial view of Louisiana Delta

Vanishing Bayous: On a boat at ground zero for sea level rise

3D image illustrating nuclear fusion

Department of Energy allocates $134 million for fusion funding

Aerial view of heavy machinery clearing a forest.

Study finds Indigenous territories of Amazon rainforest can protect humans from disease

MOST POPULAR

New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

CLIMATE
Smiling people with signs marching in support of science.

Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants

A blue and white ship at sea with LNG written on the side of it.

Wright and Burgum urge Europe to rethink methane curbs