The Latest Breaking News from Montreal

Kraken use hot start to steamroll Canadiens for fifth consecutive victory

MONTREAL – One major spot for Kraken improvement during what’s now becoming a season-defining win streak had been their inability to start games effectively.

Tribune News Service · Jan 10, 2023

Blues can't hold on in third, lose to Canadiens, 5-4

MONTREAL — The Blues arrived at Bell Centre on Saturday night with six players on injured reserve, and a seventh — defenseman Nick Leddy — out with an upper-body injury.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Jan 8, 2023

Surging Rangers beat struggling Canadiens for third straight win

MONTREAL – Their victory Tuesday over a red-hot Carolina Hurricanes squad that is one of the elite teams in the Eastern Conference said a lot about the Rangers.

Newsday · Jan 6, 2023

Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction

A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide the “fate of the entire living world”. All well then that the meeting closed with what has been hailed as a “historic” breakthrough: a deal to protect 30% of all land and water…

The Conversation · Dec 21, 2022

‘Embrace history’: UN environment chief calls for immediate action on Cop15 deal

Inger Andersen said we must not ‘pause for a second’ as we ‘change the relationship between people and nature’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2022

Five options for restoring global biodiversity after the UN agreement

To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada, promising to live in harmony with nature by 2050. The Kunming-Montreal agreement is not legally binding but it will require signatories to report their progress towards…

The Conversation · Dec 20, 2022

Cop15 in Montreal: did the summit deliver for the natural world?

The talking is over, and a text has been agreed on the next decade of targets to save the natural world. Here are the highs and lows of the Convention of Biological Diversity’s (CBD) agreement

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2022

What’s this unfamiliar feeling I have after the Cop15 meeting? It might just be hope

The Montreal biodiversity conference set some ambitious targets, says Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2022

Cop15: what does the biodiversity pact mean for Australia’s land, sea and threatened species?

The pact has been likened to the Paris agreement for climate and commits countries to targets to protect and restore biodiversity

The Guardian - AU · Dec 20, 2022

'Last chance' deal to save world's biodiversity agreed at Cop15

An historic deal to safeguard a third of the planet by 2030 and halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems has been agreed at UN biodiversity talks in Montreal.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 19, 2022