extreme weather

The temperature-sensitive pathogens that caught North American communities off guard are a grim preview of the future.

As climate change tightens its grip, 2023 wasn't just another chapter of worsening impacts — it was a chilling narrative of unpredictability and unprecedented extremes that left no corner of the country untouched.

For the first time ever, there will be a faith pavilion at the UN climate summit in Dubai. This is why that matters.

Efforts at COP28 to insert weasel words like “unabated” are linked to false narratives about technologies like carbon capture, utilization and storage, allowing us to have our cake and eat it too.

Activists are horrified by a climate conference in one of richest petrostates on the planet. Remind me why they went?

At least 1,300 employees of organizations representing fossil fuel interests registered to attend this year's United Nations climate talks in Dubai, more than three times the number found in an Associated Press analysis of last year's talks, as new rules took effect requiring attendees to disclose their employment.

Why I’m here with colleagues and allies at COP28? Because civil society is capable of exerting power to balance corporate interests and protect the global co-operation process — as imperfect as it is.

COP28 must deliver a global agreement to phase out fossil fuel production. 

COP28 outcomes must be explicit — systems transformations to build climate resilience do not include coal, oil and gas investments.

Sunil Kumar watched helplessly in July as his home and 14 others were washed away by intense monsoon rains lashing the Indian Himalayas.

Climate-driven extreme weather has endangered Canadians and caused billions of dollars of damage. Now, the B.C. government is distributing $5 million in funding to communities to mitigate the loss caused by climate-driven extreme weather.

Victoria Youmans says she hasn't seen Arrow Lakes Reservoir looking so low in more than 20 years.

Because the carbon price increases are relatively small compared to the average household income in Canada, proponents of unrestrained fossil fuel consumption falsely claim the tax hurts the most vulnerable. 

A new analysis shows at least $2.8 trillion in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heat waves.

To catch up with the threat of worsening fire seasons, B.C. needs to evolve.