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A decade of attribution research shows that “burning fossil fuels causes climate change and climate change causes death and destruction.”

The US and the UK among countries with low dependence on fossil fuels criticized for ‘hypocrisy’ on climate pledges

Seniors in both Montreal and Toronto had higher rates of deaths due to respiratory causes on extremely hot days.  

The planet is headed for at least 2.5 C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, a poll of hundreds of scientists finds.

Canada lacks up-to-date, accessible and location-specific information about climate hazards such as floods and wildfires, undermining the ability of governments, developers and homebuyers to make good choices.

For Muskan, the arrival of summer in Delhi is the “beginning of hell.” As temperatures in her cramped, densely populated east Delhi neighbourhood often soar above 45 C, she dreams of only one thing: air conditioning.

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

The claimants argue lack of adequate action is a breach of human rights in the largest climate legal action to date.

My analysis of data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a staggering revelation — more than 150 monthly temperature records have been broken across Canada this year.

James Hansen, who testified before the U.S. Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a "new climate frontier."

My analysis of data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a staggering revelation — more than 150 monthly temperature records have been broken across Canada in the first six months of this year.

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

Scientists warn the world is on track for 2.7 C of heating with current action plans and this would mean two billion people experiencing average annual temperatures above 29 C by 2030, a level at which very few communities have lived in the past.

Scientists say the phenomenon, coupled with the growing climate crisis, is likely to push global temperatures off the charts.

Friederike Otto, a member of the world’s only rapid reaction force of climate scientists, on looking into the apocalypse of extreme weather.