climate change

In cities across the U.S., hundreds of refrigerators stocked with free food are reducing waste — and methane emissions.

Studying puffin populations on three Norwegian islands, scientists have uncovered the first evidence to connect a large-scale hybridization to 20th-century warming trends. Yet a serious decline in the birds’ genetic diversity does not bode well for their future.

The United Nations' maritime agency says shipping companies ought to work with Indigenous communities to reduce noise pollution.

Climate change has toppled some civilizations but not others. Why?

The federal government wants to get more heat pumps installed in homes across Canada, especially in vote-rich Atlantic Canada. Not surprisingly, Conservatives are already trying to confuse Canadians about their costs and benefits.

Experts say hop yields and quality will continue to drop by 2050 if farmers don’t adapt to higher temperatures.

A new analysis shows at least $2.8 trillion in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heat waves.

Tensions from the war in Gaza could help accelerate the move away from planet-warming fossil fuels like oil and gas and toward renewable energy, electric cars and heat pumps — similar to how sharp increases in the price of oil during the 1970s unleashed efforts to conserve fuel, the head of the International Energy Agency said.

The decline of one of the rarest whales in the world appears to be slowing, but scientists warn the giant mammals still face existential threats from warming oceans, ship collisions and entanglement in fishing gear.

To catch up with the threat of worsening fire seasons, B.C. needs to evolve.

Only five per cent of the redwood forests that once stretched across coastal northern California have never been logged. An initiative to restore these forests is gaining momentum, aided by research showing that redwoods store more aboveground carbon than any forest on Earth.

Even as we try to tackle issues like climate change and debt, we must also build resilience to cope with unforeseen disasters. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is welcoming a dozen leaders from across the Caribbean to Ottawa today, as part of a two-day summit aimed at forming closer ties with Canada.

Floods and storms accounted for 95 per cent of recorded child displacement between 2016 and 2021, according to the first-of-its-kind analysis by UNICEF and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The rest — more than two million children — were displaced by wildfires and drought.

John Vaillant, author of an acclaimed book connecting fire and climate change, reflects on the testimony of top oil execs in the House of Commons.