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The heat and the stench was staggering after masses of mussels, barnacles, clams, hermit crabs and starfish cooked to death at a number of Lower Mainland beaches, says biologist Chris Harley.

Released July 7 by the World Weather Attribution network, a group of scientists from universities across the globe, a new study finds that the unprecedented heat in Western Canada and other parts of the Pacific Northwest wouldn’t have been possible without human-caused climate change.

A recent survey conducted in 16 countries — including Canada — finds just over half of consumers believe their own behaviour can help.

As climate impacts worsen, worry, grief, anger and guilt are becoming more widespread, writes Dr. Courtney Howard. Being open about these emotions is a gift to everyone else around you — because it lets people know that they are not alone.

Pacific fishers' livelihood is now on the brink of extinction after Fisheries and Oceans Canada recently closed about 60 per cent of B.C.'s commercial salmon fisheries. The closures, the government says, will last “multiple generations” of fish to save tumbling salmon populations.

As the Poplar River mine prepares to wind down, area residents are fighting for the future of Coronach and other area towns where livelihoods will vanish when coal leaves town

Record temperatures across North America have already killed hundreds. Here’s what actually happens when overheating turns fatal.

More than a million people on Sunday, July 4, 2021, began planting 250 million saplings in India’s most populous state, part of an annual mass tree planting campaign to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the effects of global climate change.

Naomi Leung and fellow high school students leading Climate Education Reform BC believe schools must educate students to understand climate change is real and it will change everything.  

Halifax, one of the oldest cities in Canada, has pledged to reach net zero by 2050. But a major energy waster is standing in its way: old, leaky buildings.

Cell service is out in Lytton and the fire is making it still too dangerous to search.

It’s not just people going outside and getting too much sun, it's that the heat is inescapable. With temperatures in the 40s in many parts of the province, some homes just become unsafe places to be.

Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests on Earth. Now, scientists see the beginnings of a more sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora — a trend that will intensify if greenhouse gas emissions are not reined in.

A dry spring left the fields on Karen Klassen's farm parched, and now the Manitoba farmer is bracing for them to get worse. Any day, an unprecedented heat wave smothering western North America will roll over her land, turning sun-baked soil to dust and leaving a poor crop of peas, wheat, and barley in its wake. 

A minimum of 486 sudden deaths occurred over the past five days after dangerously high temperatures gripped coastal and Lower Mainland communities in an unprecedented heat wave this week, the BC Coroners Service reports.