climate change

The record-breaking heat wave that scorched western North America last June was among the most extreme ever recorded globally, new modelling and analysis by researchers at universities in the United Kingdom shows.

Temperatures at unprecedented levels have led to critical water and electricity shortages.

The “urban heat island effect” creates extra-hot temperatures that kill. But cities can prescribe powerful treatments, like green spaces and reflective roofs.

The activists behind road blockades and hunger strikes calling for an end to old-growth logging in British Columbia say their non-violent actions are aimed at sparking public discussion and urging politicians to heed climate science.

"Zoonotic spillovers" are expected to rise, with at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years.

Despite some good plans and initiatives, Canada is shirking its international climate obligations, write Sabaa Khan and François Delorme.

Research published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday found wildfires in North American boreal forests could represent about three per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions under the Paris Climate Agreement’s budget to limit warming below 1.5 C.

Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that’s likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according to a new study.

For years, a young writer saw the tell-tale signs of beetle kill. And then the infestation came for the pines at her own home.

As the world navigates an energy transition, Canada’s bankers find themselves neck-deep in oil money with a choice to make: Turn their backs on fossil fuels or keep financing the very activity threatening all life on Earth.

A disaster−weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world, a United Nations report issued on Monday, April 25, 2022 says.

The nearly 3,000-page document details a stark, urgent threat — but it also shows a clear path forward.

President Joe Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an executive order protecting some of the nation’s largest and oldest trees.

A string of major Canadian universities committed in 2020 to consider climate change when managing their assets. The C.D. Howe Institute took a look at how they’ve done since.

A Quebec duck-farming operation says three of its facilities have been devastated by avian flu, forcing it to slaughter 150,000 birds and lay off nearly 300 employees.