climate change

Over 250 scientists have signed a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that was released Monday by science advocacy group Evidence for Democracy.

Canada's pipeline regulator, the National Energy Board (NEB), is giving energy giant Kinder Morgan some new help to speed up its Trans Mountain expansion project, after recognizing the Texas-based company was showing some "reluctance" to follow the existing rules.

​If it seems as if the weather's getting weirder, you're not wrong. An index of extreme weather in Canada compiled by the insurance industry backs that up.

International experts are asking for NGOs and governments to include women in their initiatives to fight against climate change in agriculture.

The Trudeau government unveiled its draft of a mammoth new law that would put in place a system to track and price carbon pollution from fossil fuels and industry.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that he was "going after those who have profited" from destructive climate change, saying "It’s time that they are held accountable.”

Almost two dozen marine scientists from around the world have issued a warning about an often-overlooked side effect of climate change and pollution.

The plan opens up 90 percent of U.S. offshore reserves to private companies: from 2019 to 2024, forty-seven new leases are planned for the waters off Alaska, California, the Eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico.

Atmospheric hurricanes have devastated many lives recently, their ferocity enhanced by warm seas and moist air associated with climate change. And that same historic crisis, coupled with massive droughts and huge social and political stresses in the Middle East and North Africa, is creating human migrations on this planet so violent they can be described as 'refugee hurricanes.'

Photographer James Whitlow Delano hopes to harness the power of Instagram to raise awareness about climate change around the world.

Despite progress in stabilizing the stratospheric ozone layer, all the other problems scientists looked at in 1992 have worsened.

Organizers were checking the forecast every hour Friday hoping to see some improvement but the polar vortex that has turned Ottawa into a living icicle shows no sign of lifting until at least January 2.

The freakish, "rainy-season" Thomas Fire in California has just burned itself into the record books. On Dec. 22, 2017 it officially became the state's largest recorded wildfire, having already burned 273,400 acres.

Canada loses 20 times more forested land to fires and invasive bugs each year than it does to harvesting wood for industry — and Canada's lumber association says climate change is making it worse.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada says there's "reasonable uncertainty" that it is "extremely unlikely" juvenile Fraser River sockeye will catch Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus from farmed Atlantic populations in British Columbia waters. National Observer explains.