climate change

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to shift the focus from the SNC-Lavalin affair to his preferred campaign battleground — climate change — with the release this week of the Liberal party's first election-year ads.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is telling Americans that he’ll make “defeating climate change our nation’s No. 1 priority.”

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A survey of sea life in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence has found corals, sharks, sharp-toothed wolffish and even an unexpected invertebrate along with the crustaceans and groundfish that make the region a fishing mecca.

The GOP megadonor family that gave more than $15 million to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign maintained its position as a key funder of climate change denial.

Alberta's NDP government is planning a new auction for renewable energy capacity that is aiming to move it closer to its 2030 target of getting 30 per cent of its electricity supply from wind, solar and other green sources.

“Put bluntly, if we are to meet the emissions targets that are implied by the Paris agreement, then we know already that we have too many fossil fuel reserves out there that are recoverable,” said Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change in the U.K.

Crabs that have a normal diet of a type of plankton have been seen munching on methane-filled bacteria off British Columbia's coast in what experts say could be their way of adapting to climate change.

A portrait of Haven Coleman, a young climate activist.

Pinal County farmers suffer more drastic cuts than cities in Arizona’s tenuous drought plan.

Victoria's trademark cherry blossoms may be lost in a few years as the city goes ahead with a plan to replace aging non-native trees with native species.

A CARE report has found that the devastating impacts of climate change have worsened humanitarian crises across the world, exacerbating food shortages, malnutrition and public health issues. 

The plan would boost the U.S. economy and eliminate fossil fuel use in ten years.

“We kind of lose our cool.”

Prepare yourself for grisly descriptions of how the body breaks down in overwhelming heat, predictions of prehistoric plagues springing back to life beneath melting permafrost, and the possibility of an economic collapse several times worse than the Great Depression.