climate change

One year ago, Joe Biden marked his first Earth Day as president by convening world leaders for a virtual summit on global warming that even Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping attended. Biden used the moment to nearly double the United States’ goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vaulting the country to the front lines in the fight against climate change.

Governments should consider extreme heat a natural disaster as climate change raises the risk of soaring summer temperatures in much of Canada, a new report says.

Spending money now to avoid the worst effects of climate change later will literally pay for itself, according to a new analysis.

Humans are polluting the seas with sound, while warming waters change how noise propagates. What does that mean for whales and other animals?

Hollywood’s response to climate change includes donations, protests and other activism. but it’s apparently missing out on an approach close to home.

Singapore and New Zealand will cooperate on green technologies in the fight against climate change, prime ministers from both countries said on Tuesday, April 19, 2022.

An open letter from 500 academics likens fossil-energy funding of climate solutions to tobacco industry disinformation.

The University of Toronto wants its new geoexchange system to serve multiple purposes: help its downtown campus eventually turn carbon positive, show city officials and others that a green retrofit is worthwhile, and give faculty and staff a learning lab.

Six people have been arrested after climate change activists climbed onto an oil tanker in central London to protest investments in fossil fuel, British police said on Saturday, April 16, 2022.

We can thank microbes for moving carbon to the depths of the ocean, but will our changing world mess with their good work? And should we intervene?

Although the federal and provincial governments have pledged funds to guard communities from the effects of climate change, most protection measures won't be in place in time for this season.

Chief Arnie Lampreau of the Shackan Indian Band looks across the Nicola River that surged in November, pulling entire homes into its current and forcing residents to flee.

Extreme rainfall in southeast Africa has become heavier and more likely to occur during cyclones because of climate change, according to a new analysis released Monday by an international team of weather scientists.

Strong measures by Europe could quickly deprive Russia of oil and gas income worth billions, experts say.

Global atmospheric levels of the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas methane increased a record amount last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday, February 7, 2022, worrying scientists because of the large role methane has in climate change.