droughts

Dressed as endangered fish or tigers or wearing toy polar bears on their heads, demonstrators marched through Brussels on Sunday, October 10, 2021, to push world leaders to take bolder action to fight climate change at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow starting this month.

Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters, according to a report by the United Nations' weather agency.

Climate crisis brings stark intergenerational injustice, but rapid emission cuts can limit the damage.

Vermont on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, became the latest state to sue some of the country's top fossil fuel companies by alleging they misled the public about the impact their products have on climate change.

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.

A survey of 800 cities around the world also found almost 43 per cent do not even have plan to adapt to the impacts of global heating.

Scientists in California just ran the numbers on what would happen if their state slapped solar panels on 4,000 miles of its canals, including the major California Aqueduct, and the results point to a potentially beautiful partnership.

Varieties of corn, beans and squash seen as central to Cherokee identity will be deposited in Norway’s Svalbard seed bank

From melting ice caps to record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes and floods, the deadly consequences of human-caused global warming are here.

Christian Aid report highlights costs of floods, fires and storms around the world

In an era when the intensity of hurricanes is expected to increase across Atlantic Canada, experts say major changes are needed to utility grids, shoreline defences and even the types of trees being planted.

Two leading Canadian activists say voters need to think about climate change as if we are a country at war against greenhouse-gas emissions.

MPs spent their first day back in Parliament after Thanksgiving break debating the perils of climate change.

A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year.

Federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods.