climate change

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.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government says it is going to ask the courts to stop the Trudeau government's efforts to fight climate change.

The federal government is scaling back its carbon pricing plan for heavy industrial emitters in a bid to cut greenhouse gas production without creating an incentive for companies to simply up and leave Canada altogether.

"In a compassionate, rational world any one of the following reasons would be enough to stop this project."

Premier Doug Ford's government has introduced a new plan at the Ontario legislature to minimize the province's losses following its decision to abandon a joint carbon trading market with Quebec and California.

Rising temperatures are linked to increasing rates of suicide, according to a large new study.

Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna says she has come out of her first meeting with her new Ontario counterpart feeling "disappointed."

Last summer, a team of scientists returned from an expedition in the North Atlantic, armed with DNA samples, marine specimens and videos of bottom-feeding fish, sea spiders and corals.

The Republic of Ireland will become the world’s first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies, after a bill was passed with all-party support in the lower house of parliament.

Health officials in Central Canada are urging the population to find ways to stay cool after dozens of deaths struck the country's two most populous provinces during a recent heat wave.

This past June, late one night, a team of scientists camped out on a fjord in Greenland heard a roar. When icebergs are born, they fill the ocean with noise, and the Helheim Glacier was cracking.

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The new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is a former coal industry lobbyist who helped lead an industry fight against regulations that protect Americans' health and address climate change.