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'Heading towards a climate reckoning': Victoria wants cruise ship-related emissions cut quickly
Victoria city council has an ambitious climate target, and it's asking the cruise industry to get on board. The harbour authority is looking into installing shore power and also cutting back on emissions from land transportation, once passengers...
'We would love some action,' Greta Thunberg says at climate summit in Madrid
Greta Thunberg arrived in the Spanish capital on Friday to join thousands of other young people in a march to demand world leaders take real action against climate...
How engineers of the Montreal Massacre generation are changing the world
On Dec. 6, 1989, a gunman killed 14 young women — most studying to be engineers — at Montreal's École Polytechnique. Thirty years later, other women of that generation have made their mark on engineering and the world, from designing aircraft to earthquake-proofing...
'I'm watching it disappear:' Residents along Lake Erie reckoning with worsening shoreline erosion
Many communities along Lake Erie are dealing with record-high water levels and significant erosion of the shoreline, and it's forcing some residents to consider abandoning their...
Job killer or job creator? Experts predict a climate employment boom: Don Pittis
Critics have warned the economic disruption caused by fighting climate change will lead to massive unemployment, but something different seems to be...
YouTube changes format for year-in-review Rewind 2019
YouTube Rewind, the video platform's year-in-review, arrived in a brand-new format on Thursday after a torrent of negative reviews in...
Uber received more than 3,000 reports of sexual assaults in U.S. in 2018
Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday said it had received more than 3,000 reports of sexual assault, including rape, related to its trips in the United States in 2018, at a time when it operated roughly 1.3 billion...