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Angela Antle

Angela Antle is the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer in Residence at Germany’s Ludwig Maximilian University, host and producer of the podcast GYRE, an interdisciplinary PhD candidate (Memorial University) and a member of Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions.

Angela's Latest Articles

Dear Mr. Wakeham: Climate changes aren’t coming — they’re here 

Not only are wildfires caused by climate change, new research links the heatwaves that cause them to oil companies active in Newfoundland and Labrador

‘Close to panic level’: Survey respondents chime in on climate crisis

More than 100 readers responded to The Indy’s first climate survey, and almost all share deep concerns

Who owns the wind?

How a trip to Scotland’s Orkney Islands raises questions of renewable energy benefits for communities in Newfoundland and Labrador

Our fossil gerontocracy pops the ‘P’ out of C-NLOPB 

Changing C-NLOPB to C-NLOER will not improve our lives, decrease our power bills, or contribute to our equitable transition from fossil fuels

Hold on to your Gigawatts

I was going to call this piece, “Is Green Hydrogen Churchill Falls 2.0?” Then, with the rip of a piece of paper, Churchill Falls 2.0 fell from the sky 17 years early

I smell cucumbers

Billionaire-owned World Energy GH2 is off green hydrogen and floating the idea of energy-hungry data centres

Can the cap address the gap? The growing chasm between climate rhetoric and reality

The Government of Canada’s new draft legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions means it’s more important than ever to see through the fossil fuel industry’s propaganda

Brigitte Bardot: A tale of propaganda and confessions

As a Newfoundlander, saying I’m an environmentalist sometimes feels like a 12-step-declaration. I blame the ghost of (90-year-old) Brigitte Bardot.

Can St. John’s learn a climate lesson from a city in Norway?

What role can our capital city play in leading us out of this oily mess?

Portugal’s energy poverty paradox

Like Portugal, Newfoundland and Labrador has more renewable energy than residents need, but unacceptably high levels of energy poverty.