climate change

U.N. Secretary−General António Guterres warned on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, of a “dangerous disconnect” between what scientists and citizens are demanding to curb climate change, and what governments are actually doing about it.

As climate change intensifies extreme weather, cities and companies are paying for private forecasting. But what about the places that can't afford it?

Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver and California’s Death Valley all posted record temperatures on Saturday, June 12, 2022, as dangerous heat swept across the American Southwest.

Hussam al−Aqouli remembers the exact spot along southern Iraq’s Lake Sawa where his two daughters once dipped their feet into clear waters. Now he stands there two years on and the barren earth cracks beneath him.

Canada and California are kindred progressive spirits on climate change, Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Thursday, June 9, 2022, as he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a new blueprint for working together to stave off the worst consequences of a warming planet.

High household debt and elevated housing prices have become bigger vulnerabilities in the past year, but the economy can still handle the rising interest rates needed to tame inflation, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said on Thursday, June 9, 2022.

Paleontologist Steve Brusatte believes this is so because smaller mammals are better able to cope with increased temperatures.

The Arctic Council is deciding to sit again, after suspending its meetings in protest at Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Bonn Climate Change Conference envoys walk out during Russian address.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Defence Minister Anita Anand got a first-hand look on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at North America's first line of continental defence, a system experts and political leaders agree is badly in need of an upgrade.

Tinkering with the planet’s air to cool Earth’s ever−warming climate is inching closer to reality enough so that two different high−powered groups — one of scientists and one of former world leaders — are trying to come up with ethics and governing guidelines.

Katharine Hayhoe says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilization.

A long-term study of a marsh was meant to ask whether rising levels of CO2 could help wetlands thrive despite rising seas. The plants aren’t keeping up.

Vett Lloyd, a researcher and director of the Lloyd Tick Lab at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, says that as the impacts of climate change progress, each tick season will likely be worse than the last.