climate change

Teams working on two continents have marked similar milestones in their respective efforts to tap an energy source key to the fight against climate change: They’ve each produced very impressive magnets.

A new study finds that slow-moving, low-pressure storms could become 14 times more frequent in Europe over the next century.

California firefighters battled fast-growing forest fires threatening giant sequoias and small communities in the Sierra Nevada on Monday, September 27, 2021, and worked to fully surround a suspected arson wildfire that destroyed homes last week.

The British government said on Tuesday, October 5, 2021, it will bring in tough new laws against disruptive protesters, after environmental campaigners blocked roads, highways and bridges to highlight climate change.

“We don't need more research or more new technologies. We need to rapidly deploy what we already know," said former Ontario Environment Minister Glen Murray.

“The community hasn’t done as good of a job projecting how bad climate impacts would be at 1.2 C,” one scientist said.

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Most Canadians aren't optimistic about humanity's chances of fighting climate change, a new survey suggests.

“It’s about the conservation of threatened species and recovery of threatened ecosystems,” said Gregg Howald, CEO of  FreshWater Life, an NGO that works on freshwater preservation. “Islands support a disproportionate amount of our global biodiversity. About 20 per cent [of global biodiversity] are found on these islands, and they represent just about five per cent of the Earth’s surface.”