extreme weather events

Floods and storms accounted for 95 per cent of recorded child displacement between 2016 and 2021, according to the first-of-its-kind analysis by UNICEF and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The rest — more than two million children — were displaced by wildfires and drought.

Last week's marches to end fossil fuels show we need to unite to put an end to these primary drivers of the climate crisis.

Climate activists are getting more explicit in their demands by specifically calling for an end to fossil fuels.

Tens of thousands of climate activists around the world are set to march, chant and protest Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat.

Physicians and medical schools around the world are tailoring their approach to public health as climate-related illnesses rise.

The city is spending billions to protect Manhattan. Other boroughs, not so much.

A new report by the Canadian Climate Institute says private capital is needed to invest in climate adaptation infrastructure as extreme weather events like fires and floods become more acute by the year.

The new numbers have been in development for months but come after a recent report from the parliamentary budget officer on the economic costs of the carbon price. That report did not specifically equate the cost of the price on carbon to the costs of climate change itself.

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

As international climate talks in the Egyptian desert go into their final days, negotiators are trying to move key countries’ lines in the sand on multiple issues, including compensation for climate disasters, phasing down all fossil fuel use and additional financial help for poor nations.

Insurance companies that have long said they'll cover anything, at the right price, are increasingly ruling out fossil fuel projects because of climate change — to cheers from environmental campaigners.

One extremely cold day last winter was all it took to cause widespread damage to Bill Redelmeier's wine crops.

Only about half the funds required are being provided by rich countries, according to a report by Oxfam.

Devastating floods in South Africa this week, as well as other extreme weather events across the continent linked to human−caused climate change, are putting marine and terrestrial wildlife species at risk, according to biodiversity experts.