Grim Reaper coming for our marine critters. But it’s not too late
A quarter of a billion years ago, rising temperatures emptied the oceans of life. The planet now faces a similar threat, but the outcome is in human hands.
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Last summer's B.C., Alberta heat dome among most extreme since 1960s
The record-breaking heat wave that scorched western North America last June was among the most extreme ever recorded globally, new modelling and analysis by researchers at universities in the United Kingdom shows.
Pakistan and India under extreme spring heat wave
Temperatures at unprecedented levels have led to critical water and electricity shortages.
Extreme heat is a disease for cities. Let’s treat it that way
The “urban heat island effect” creates extra-hot temperatures that kill. But cities can prescribe powerful treatments, like green spaces and reflective roofs.
Old-growth protection activists in B.C. block highway to force 'dialogue'
The activists behind road blockades and hunger strikes calling for an end to old-growth logging in British Columbia say their non-violent actions are aimed at sparking public discussion and urging politicians to heed climate science.
Canada can and must get out of fossil energy
Despite some good plans and initiatives, Canada is shirking its international climate obligations, write Sabaa Khan and François Delorme.
Hotter and sicker: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics
"Zoonotic spillovers" are expected to rise, with at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years.
Better wildfire management a good way for Canada to cut emissions
Research published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday found wildfires in North American boreal forests could represent about three per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions under the Paris Climate Agreement’s budget to limit warming below 1.5 C.
Infectious diseases could increase as climate changes
Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that’s likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according to a new study.
Grieving for the trees
For years, a young writer saw the tell-tale signs of beetle kill. And then the infestation came for the pines at her own home.
Canada’s banks are making net-zero pledges — and billions in fossil fuel deals
As the world navigates an energy transition, Canada’s bankers find themselves neck-deep in oil money with a choice to make: Turn their backs on fossil fuels or keep financing the very activity threatening all life on Earth.
UN says climate disasters a harbinger of more to come
A disaster−weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world, a United Nations report issued on Monday, April 25, 2022 says.
I helped write the UN climate report. Here’s why it gives me hope
The nearly 3,000-page document details a stark, urgent threat — but it also shows a clear path forward.
Biden passes order to help protect old-growth forests from wildfire
President Joe Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an executive order protecting some of the nation’s largest and oldest trees.
Climate report card gives McMaster, B.C. schools top marks
A string of major Canadian universities committed in 2020 to consider climate change when managing their assets. The C.D. Howe Institute took a look at how they’ve done since.