extreme heat

Heat records were shattered again this summer. Yet even though concern about inflation has declined somewhat, climate change has not rebounded as a public priority.

The results from a recent Leger poll suggest more than one in three Canadians have been touched directly by extreme weather such as forest fires, heat waves, floods or tornadoes.

The largest study of Canada's catastrophic 2023 wildfire season concludes it is "inescapable" that the record burn was caused by extreme heat and parching drought, while adding the amount of young forests consumed could make recovery harder.

A study by UBC Centre for Climate Justice and Radical Action showed housing reforms are urgently needed for temporary foreign workers

Nearly half a million people a year die worldwide from heat related deaths, far more than other weather extremes such as hurricanes, and this is likely an underestimate, a new report by 10 U.N. agencies said.

Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.

A new survey of business leaders finds the vast majority are concerned that climate change will hit their operations this year while more than half report that it's already affected profits.

A blistering heat wave is moving across Western Canada, pushing record temperatures and the threat of wildfires into Saskatchewan.

A new coalition in the City of Toronto is seeking protections for tenants who are struggling in the extreme heat conditions that are becoming increasingly common due to climate change.

Across British Columbia's south coast, gardeners are finding dead or damaged plants due to the cold snap that sent temperatures plunging to -13.7 C in Richmond. As spring nears, hydrangeas are bare of buds and evergreens are losing their foliage.

In cities like Tucson, Ariz., neighbours are planting trees to provide shade — and food.

For Muskan, the arrival of summer in Delhi is the “beginning of hell.” As temperatures in her cramped, densely populated east Delhi neighbourhood often soar above 45 C, she dreams of only one thing: air conditioning.

Harmful algae blooms, fuelled by warming temperatures and nutrient runoff, plague the state.

The last 12 months were the hottest Earth has ever recorded, according to a new report by Climate Central, a nonprofit science research group.

Kathleen Maxwell has lived in Phoenix for more than 20 years, but this summer was the first time she felt fear, as daily high temperatures soared to 110 degrees or hotter and kept it up for a record-shattering 31 consecutive days.