“Freshwater species are especially vulnerable to harm caused by humans because pollution often drains into rivers and lakes, dams block vital waterways and overfishing decimates populations. The climate crisis is adding to the damage by raising water temperatures” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Last year, the energy imbalance in the world’s oceans, which absorb more than 90% of solar radiation, hit a record 23 zettajoules, more than double the average of the previous two decades.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Earth’s energy imbalance increased by about 11 zettajoules a year between 2005 and 2025 … as more energy gets stuck in our home, the more we – and all other forms of life – feel hot, uncomfortable and are vulnerable to heatwaves, storms, floods, droughts or fire” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“500,000 tonnes of alumina, worth about $200m, was exported from Aughinish to Krasnoyarsk in 2024, which accounted for around two-thirds of the aluminium oxide imported into Russia by that Rusal smelter that year” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“There are two key parts to the Dose of Nature prescription: helping people get outside and, once there, to start noticing nature to calm their minds and bodies.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/24/n...

“Minimal measures for Highways 11 and 17 that include better signs ... only effort toward expansion is preliminary design work on short stretch of highway … 2.5 million people in province – about 15 per cent of the population – did not have a family doctor” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

“'no take' zone extend 1m sq km, third-largest such marine protected zone in world. Thus Chile protect > 50% of its waters, putting it in a rare category … It would prohibit all fishing, except for 12km from the coast, to allow the community fishers to work” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Cluster munitions are inherently indiscriminate, and their use in populated areas is prohibited under international humanitarian law. While the 2008 convention on cluster munitions bans them for signatory states, neither Israel nor Iran are party to it.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

" > 91% of excess heat received by Earth since 1970s has been absorbed in the oceans … Atmospheric CO2 reached a record high of 423.9 parts per million in 2024, highest concentration in 2 million years ... concentration of methane and nitrous oxide at highest levels” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Grasses appear earlier in season than other plants, and then they dry out before a lot of the other plants are even maturing. And so, it creates highways of fuel that connect unburned areas to unburned areas and can run right down into our communities." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/20/n...

"Predict that fish in warmer waters will grow faster but evolve earlier maturation, decreasing their maximum size. Predict that evolution ameliorates impacts of climate change on fish fitness but exacerbates its impacts on fisheries yields—worsening losses by ~50%” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Extreme water stress is using at least 80% of its available supply; “high water stress” regions use at least 40%. Only three of the 38 data centre sites have been planned in low water stress regions, which comprise the majority of Alberta’s land mass” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/23/i...

“Bill 94 is even more restrictive than France’s similar laws, and Bill 9, which aims to further curtail religious freedoms, is on the horizon. Ironically, it makes Quebec look “more Catholic than the Pope,” as they say, on the issue of laïcité” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

“More than 12 million people across Sudan have been forced to flee their homes, and 33 million need emergency aid, according to relief agency estimates. Both sides in the war have been accused of war crimes and other atrocities” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

“The solar pump is a lower cost option to buy and operate than an equivalent PTO-powered pump, he says. It also frees up the tractor for other tasks.” www.producer.com/sponsored/so...

“Like riding a bicycle, most important ingredient for becoming kinder is practice … 'Roots of Empathy' reduces aggression and increases compassion. Schoolchildren “adopt” local baby for year and students encouraged to see the world from the baby’s point of view” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Smallholders having to accept prices as low as 50% of usual rate or struggling to sell at all … Getting food products to export markets is pressing problem for some producers now, but millions of growers everywhere will be affected by soaring fertilizer costs” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“One of the first people to be killed was Dr Ruth Osodu, a 28-year-old vet who had joined the park in 2024 to work on monitoring animal populations. “She’s someone who gave her life to protect the richness of Congo” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Israeli human rights grp B’Tselem accused government of enabling settler violence “in strategy to cement takeover of Palestinian land” … “Israel’s centre-left Democrats condemned violence and accused government of enabling lawlessness in occupied West Bank” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“Death toll is now more than 390; so many others sustained life-changing injuries, or were arbitrarily detained and tortured … Unrwa headquarters in East Jerusalem was seized, looted and set on fire, with senior Israeli officials celebrating” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Climate scientists estimated humans could emit greenhouse gases equivalent to 130bn tonnes of CO2 to leave us with a 50% chance of stopping the climate from heating beyond 1.5C. At the present rate of 40bn tCO2e that budget will be exhausted by 2028” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“No Canadian agency or program, public or private, to support free media in authoritarian countries, at least not if that media comes from Canada. It’s a missed opportunity for Canada to support this type of media” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

“Living in time when we don’t know for sure if we’ll be alive tomorrow... But we still have hope for life, and have made plans for new year. We will celebrate Nowruz in memory of our friends who have been killed. We hope war ends soon, in favour of people.” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

“Wind farms hard to destroy, since turbines are widely dispersed, don’t rely on imported oil, natural gas or coal, whose supply lines can be shut down … Electricity prices in Spain lower than those in Germany and Italy, reliant on gas to keep the lights on” www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

“Agroforestry management of banana crops demands less work; only need to prune banana plant. Nature, with its own rhythm, does rest”… “Most harmful to the forest is the real estate speculation surrounding the park, draining its water resources” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“Israel’s strategy is no longer to use war to produce a stable political arrangement – war “is becoming, instead, the arrangement itself”. But others in the region need stability and security.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Mistrust of Trump now runs deep among Gulf leadership and there is palpable fear that GCC striking back against Iran would be used by US as a foil to withdraw and declare victory. GCC would be left with bloody, open-ended war with Iran scarring generations” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“Concerned about Bill 5, more than 5,000 people sent letters to their local MPPs. If Ontarians knew there was a cost-effective solution to save species at risk in ON, Martin and Giles believe people would pay an additional $7 a year in tax to take action” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/20/n...

Ecojustice lawyer Susan Calabrese “If fossil fuel development is 2x in Alberta, as Premier Smith proposes, AER is body responsible for regulating its safe development. The public needs to be able to trust the AER to do its job and act in public interest” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/20/n...

“In Somalia, fuel prices up 130%. Rice prices in Somali town up 33 per%. In Sudan, fuel prices up 30%, threatening this year’s harvest. Somalia and Sudan suffer from famine or severe drought, aggravated by slashed food budgets; result of aid cuts by donors” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

“Dr. Wright and his team wound up collecting 480 strains of bacteria, which they tested against 21 antibiotics. The results were stunning: Every single strain was resistant. Not just to a single antibiotic, but several. Two strains were resistant to 15 … ” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

“1C rise in temperature reduces incomes in female-headed households by 34% more than in male-headed ones, while women’s weekly labour hours increased 55 minutes relative to men’s … > 2.1 bil people lack safely managed drinking water; 3.4 bil lack safe sanitation” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“Additional expense of fossil-fuel price spike of 2022’s is same as entire cost of net zero by 2050. We get nothing in return for oil spikes, but we get a new, more secure and cheaper energy system in return for the net zero programme” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Probability of hail under similar atmospheric conditions has increased by up to 30 per cent. And warming made the hailstones grow from nuisance-size to chunks of ice big enough to shred crops and damage cars and structures” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/19/n...

“Rural Americans are conventionally conservative, but their growing list of grievances against this inept administration will haunt the Republicans during the midterm elections. Mr. Trump promised farmers a golden age, but he’s given them a whole lot of grief” www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

“Robusta production 28% of total coffee early 1990s to 44% in 2023 … need culture shift for forest products such as Brazil nuts, açaí, cocoa, cupuaçu and buriti … If robusta is to have a future, many more people need to recognize and protect the forests” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“Robusta reputation as lower-grade, bitter coffee, often used in cheap blends … Improving robusta’s quality is matter of taste and climate adaptation. Because robusta thrives in higher temperatures than arabica, it will probably be critical to meet global demand" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“Israel’s decapitation strategy is not an approach that produces Jeffersonian democrats but hardened resistance fighters. It breeds more resistance” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“Low-speed EVs, more versatile than electric bike, simpler than conventional electric car, include small, battery-powered four-wheeled cars and tricycles; provide affordable, clean alternative for short distance travel, saving emissions and serving diverse demographic” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Can’t open casings of appliances without destroying them. EU has addressed this problem with its Ecodesign Directive, which mandates that appliances can be opened for repair using commonly available tools without causing damage to the casing or other parts” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/18/n...

“Valued at $58 trillion, or 60% of global GDP, economic value of water and freshwater systems dictates trade systems and geopolitical order. More than half the world’s food production will be at risk by 2050 if the freshwater supply is continually depleted” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/18/o...

“Frequent disturbances enhance a population’s capacity to resist and recover from later downturns ... Even if things fall apart, many will survive. Some will thrive, thanks to all we’ve stored away in our memories, ready to pass on to those who come after” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

“Abundance of flowers self-choreograph in slow rotational ballet as flowerheads track position of sun. At pre-dawn, most blooms end their day-dance facing west, but within minutes of our star’s reappearance on E horizon, they’d done 180-degree tilt to begin again” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Largest biome at Eden Project houses > 1,000 varieties of plants of rainforests, ranging from tropical pitchers that eat insects to endangered jade vines … ceramic sculpture, Infinity Blue, shows how cyanobacteria pioneered oxygenic photosynthesis 3bn years ago” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“In Pakistan, share of electricity generated by solar jumped 5x from Dec 2021 to Dec 2025 … As war in Iran chokes global oil and gas ... Pakistan’s solar insulates power sector … Distributed solar prevents at least any immediate supply crunches in the gas sector” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Parametric insurance supports recovery from impacts of climate change. Unlike traditional insurance, parametric payouts are triggered as soon as damaging conditions cross a predetermined threshold: a particular wind speed, earthquake magnitude or rainfall level” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"We are facing, probably by the end of 2026, a close to $25-billion deficit in infrastructure needs across rural Alberta," said Westerlund, a councillor in Brazeau County. "We're talking roads, bridges, culverts, wastewater and water." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/16/n...

“Growth driven by domestic demand rather than global markets, regional integration, south-south trade rather than north-south, and put the needs of poorer people first to allow moving out of poverty rather than be trapped in a system of ultra-rich.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/17/n...

“If we fail, I will at least know I did not remain silent while the future was being gambled away. And when I look my grandson in the eye one day, I will be able to say: I tried.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/17/o...