extreme heat

The demonstration was part of a global strike for climate action, with protesters of all ages converging on Queen's Park to make their voices heard.

If armed with the right knowledge, Canadians can take action to reduce their homes’ vulnerability to extreme heat, wildfires and flooding by using natural tools to adapt to climate change.

"The sun is beating down on this metal box.”

Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as part of an intensifying campaign against the emissions-spewing lifestyles of the ultrawealthy.

As high temperature records fall across southern British Columbia, a wildlife rescue group is warning of the heat risks for animals.

At about summer's halfway point, the record-breaking heat and weather extremes are both unprecedented and unsurprising, hellish yet boring in some ways, scientists say.

British Columbia's coroner has issued a public safety bulletin about wildfire smoke, saying the death of a nine-year-old boy had been "confirmed by his parents" to have been related to a medical condition aggravated by the smoke.

On Monday, the global average temperature reached a record high of 17.01 C. The next day, the record was broken by another 0.17 C, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer. Scientists predict Wednesday’s temperatures might surpass both of these.

Increasingly severe heat waves will imperil the country's development goals and slow economic growth, new research shows.

A group of Swiss pensioners took their government to a top European court on Wednesday over what they claim is its failure to take stronger action on climate change.

Scientists need to learn more about climate change’s negative impacts on the nervous system in order to mitigate it.

Dozens of countries and international institutions on Monday, January 9, 2023, pledged more than $9 billion to help Pakistan recover and rebuild from devastating summer floods that the United Nations chief called “a climate disaster of monumental scale.”

Persistent overdependence on fossil fuels — globally and at home — is jeopardizing the health of Canadians and people in all corners of the world, researchers warn.

A break in the middle of the day can give us a chance to rest — as well as reduce our toll on the planet.

Forecaster Warren Dean recalls feeling helpless as a deadly heat dome hovered over British Columbia last summer.