While climate disasters unfold in Canada and around the planet, the federal government is entertaining false solutions from the fossil-fuel industry that risk making things worse instead of better.
You're not imagining it - your allergies are lasting longer than usual. Climate change means that temperatures are rising earlier in the year, and plants are responding to the weather.
With hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic discarded into the environment over the past few decades, scientists are now learning that what is visible is only the tip of the plastic waste iceberg.