climate change

The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable Pakistan to create unrelenting rain and deadly flooding.

This year was the first tree-planting season where B.C. made it mandatory to plant ones adapted to slightly warmer climates.

Blocking the flow of saltwater can turn coastal wetlands into methane belchers.

In much of Earth's wealthy mid-latitudes, spiking temperatures and humidity that feel like 39.4 C or higher — now an occasional summer shock — statistically should happen 20 to 50 times a year by mid-century, a new study warns.

Switzerland’s 1,400 glaciers have lost more than half their total volume since the early 1930s, a new study has found, and researchers say the ice retreat is accelerating at a time of growing concerns about climate change.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is making a visit to Canada next week.

The Opposition B.C. Liberals have removed MLA John Rustad from the party caucus after he retweeted comments that questioned the role of carbon dioxide in climate change.

Kristen Burckhartt felt overwhelmed. She needed time to reflect, to let it sink in that she had just briefly soaked her feet in the water where Jesus is said to have been baptized, in the Jordan River.

When the Meghna River swallowed Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum’s tin-roofed family home overnight in southern Bangladesh just over a year ago they had no choice but to leave their ancestral village.

The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the U.S. West’s most spectacular predators — the golden eagle — as the species teeters on the edge of decline.

Trees are advancing into the Arctic tundra and retreating from boreal forests farther south, where stunting and dieoffs are expected.

A United Nations body that monitors some of the world's greatest natural glories is in Canada again to assess government responses to ongoing threats to the country's largest national park, including plans to release treated oilsands tailings into its watershed.

The world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are sparring on Twitter over climate policy, with China questioning whether the U.S. can deliver on the landmark climate legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden this week.

Germany’s main industry lobby group warned on Tuesday, August 15, 2022, that factories may have to throttle production or halt it completely because plunging water levels on the Rhine River are making it harder to transport cargo.