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Experts say that even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, ocean levels would continue to rise.

A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as long-term water shortages, a new study found.

The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says 76,129 square kilometres of forest and other land have burned since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometres, according to the National Forestry Database.

When David He tells stories about climate impacts, the prime minister and other senior government officials pay attention.

Heads of state, finance leaders and activists from around the world will converge in Paris this week to seek ways to overhaul the world's development banks — like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank — and help them weather a warmer and stormier world.

When world leaders gather, 16-year-old Clara Brown from Merrickville, Ont., helps ensure young people have a greater voice.

The mercury has since dipped again, but experts say the short surge marked a new global heat record for June and indicates more extremes ahead as the planet enters an El Niño phase that could last years.

Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said it is not about shutting down Canada's fossil fuel industry, but the sector will only survive if it massively invests in technology to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from extracting and refining oil and gas.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry urged the world to be “very skeptical” about claims from oil and gas producers that emerging technology soon will allow people to adequately capture the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by their cars, planes and businesses.

We are not at a new normal — wildfires will continue to worsen. 

Researchers say bumpier air travel is driving up costs and increasing the risks for passengers and crews.

Rocks the size of coffee mugs continue to drop hundreds of feet down steep bluffs onto Highway 4, an important transportation route closed by wildfire activity on Vancouver Island a week ago.

Fossil fuel advertising increases demand for the very products that are driving the climate crisis. 

We disrupt the current programming of the “wildfire season” to tell you that those trees, the TMX pipeline and those ancient fires are connected.