climate change

IPCC says gas produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction are playing an ever-greater role in overheating our planet.

With the era of building big dams over in the U.S., a growing number of existing dams are being modified to produce hydropower. These projects, advocates say, avoid the damaging impacts of new dams and could generate enough renewable electricity for several million homes.

Marine biologist Christine Stortini explains how overfishing throws ocean ecosystems out of whack and makes ocean life more susceptible to the ill effects of climate change.

Declaring the U.S. must “move fast” to win the world's carmaking future, President Joe Biden on Thursday, August 5, 2021, announced a commitment from the auto industry to produce electric vehicles for as much as half of U.S. sales by the end of the decade.

The Biden administration wants automakers to raise gas mileage and cut tailpipe pollution between now and model year 2026, and it has won a voluntary commitment on Thursday, August 5, 2021, from the industry that electric vehicles comprise up to half of U.S. sales by the end of the decade.

Over-reliance on tree-planting to offset carbon emissions could push food prices up 80 per cent by 2050, Oxfam said.

California's largest wildfire exploded again after burning for nearly three weeks in remote mountains and officials warned on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, that hot, dry weather would increase the risk of new fires across much of the state.

As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are noticing something different: 2021′s onslaught is hitting harder and in places that have been spared global warming’s wrath in the past.

In Canadian media outlets, the term "climate change" overtook "global warming" in 2002, a gap that has since widened.

The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package unveiled by the Senate includes more than $150 billion to boost clean energy and promote “climate resilience” by making schools, ports and other structures better able to withstand extreme weather events such as storms and wildfires.

Saskatchewan's biggest city is harnessing the sun to meet its climate goals — and push a fossil fuel-heavy province toward renewable energy.

President Joe Biden is sounding the alarm about the need for more resources to fight a series of wildfires in western states, as climate change has worsened the spread and ferocity of the blazes.