climate change

As one of the three founders of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, I have a keen interest in preventing environmental degradation, because I know that human health —my over-riding professional focus — is entirely dependent on healthy ecosystems. 

If we want to solve climate change, there's no other option.

A new face of summer is emerging, writes Julia Pope. Replacing the iconic images of people camping and hiking are images of smoke and flames, and family picnics held against a backdrop of gray skies full of falling ash.

Rising arctic temperatures mean we face a future of ‘extreme extremes’ where sunny days become heatwaves and rain becomes floods, study says.

"Wildfire smoke is so thick in Prince George, it looks like night, after the sun has risen." That's a quote from Global News. Evacuations, damaged health, Beijing-like fog, nightmarish infernos. Welcome to the new normal.

Little more than a year before the next federal election, Justin Trudeau's Liberals are hoping to remind Canadians about the benefits derived from one of their signature promises from the last election: investing billions in infrastructure.

Cities around the globe felt record-breaking, red-hot temperatures this July: In the United States, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Algeria, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Oman and China, the thermostat reached all-time highs.

The Commerce Department has ordered that water use be prioritized for firefighters –– who say water isn't the issue. The decision isn't really about fire.

A team of international researchers released what looks like a blueprint for catastrophe this week. On our current path, they warned, humanity might push the planet into an entirely new, hellish equilibrium, unseen since before the emergence of our species millions of years ago.

The president's tweets are baffling experts. Here's a theory about which "bad environmental laws" he's talking about.

The administration says thousands more people will die in traffic accidents if vehicles are forced to become more fuel-efficient.

Forest fires like the ones currently burning in Ontario can have long-term impacts on the environment, experts say, noting that increasingly warmer and drier weather conditions are making such blazes more common.

The White House proposed dramatically weakening fuel economy standards on Thursday, reversing the only major federal policy to reduce planet-warming emissions from the nation’s top source of greenhouse gas pollution.

Citing safety, the Trump administration on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, proposed rolling back car-mileage standards, backing away from years of government efforts to cut Americans' trips to the gas station and reduce unhealthy, climate-changing tailpipe emissions.