climate change

The asbestos lobby uses the same tactic as the Alberta oil industry — vilifying its opponents as enemies secretly working for foreign interests who wish to destroy the livelihoods of local communities, writes former director of the BC Human Rights Commission Kathleen Ruff.

Fergus Linley-Mota, a 23-year-old recent Simon Fraser University graduate, hosted a global dialogue with major climate leaders about the role of cities in finding climate solutions.

The estimated $78 million in insured property damage from the wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C., in June is a fraction of the rising costs of disasters fuelled by climate change, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says.

Young urban shepherd Lukas Janssens guides his flock among the graves in Schoonselhof, one of Belgium’s iconic cemeteries, knowing sheep are kinder to nature than lawnmowers.

The U.S. is determined to douse every wildfire burning in the western states..

Spain endured its hottest day of the year on Saturday, August 14, 2021, with temperatures topping 45 degrees Celsius (113 F), while authorities in Italy expanded the number of cities on red alert for health risks to 16 as a heat wave engulfed Southern Europe.

Each morning at a transit facility in Canton, Ohio, more than a dozen buses pull up to a fueling station before fanning out to their routes in this city south of Cleveland.

Search-and-rescue crews in northern Turkey recovered 10 more bodies overnight, raising the death toll from the severe floods and mudslides that struck the region to 27, officials said on Friday, August 13, 2021. Dozens more people were believed to be missing.

No matter how much Megan Greig waters, her raspberries, peas, carrots, and beans won’t flourish this growing season.

A harvester rumbles through the fields in the early morning light, mowing down rows of corn and chopping up ears, husks and stalks into mulch for feed at a local dairy.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday, August 12, 2021, that the devastating wildfires that burned across the country for more than a week were the greatest ecological catastrophe Greece had seen in decades.

Fossil fuel pollution has been searing the Golden State into a hot, dry tinderbox. The megafires have followed in accelerating fury and frequency, and carbon columnist Barry Saxifrage has the charts to prove it.

Motivated by concerns about future rare earth metal supply shortages and the environmental toll of rare earth mining, tech companies are exploring whether they can mine the drives instead.

California's largest single wildfire in recorded history kept pushing through forestlands on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, as fire crews tried to protect rural communities from flames that have destroyed hundreds of homes.