For months, Will Robbins has been praying for snow. The organic grain and cattle farmer's Saskatchewan fields are "tapped out" of water after three back-to-back years of drought.
Learning from previous wars on Gaza, humanitarian charities have transitioned to solar-powered water wells, which have proven to be nothing short of life-saving infrastructure.
The season traditionally has run from March 1 to Oct. 31, but Alberta Forestry and Parks Minister Todd Loewen says it's now underway — 10 days earlier than usual.
Oil giants like Exxon have long used the Big Tobacco Playbook to protect their industry from challenge. And up until now, they have gotten away with it.
New parking tariffs could come into force at the start of September. The cost of on-street parking for an SUV or 4x4 vehicle would rise to €18 an hour in the centre of Paris and €12 an hour in the rest of the city.
Legislation of the sort being pursued by Vermont and others won’t repair all of the damage wrought by climate change or stop pollution on its own, but such laws could provide remediation funding for communities that don’t have much money to go around.
Watershed experts worried that critically low snowpacks signal more severe droughts this summer want the province to act early to deal with water shortages before they reach crisis levels.
Scientists say climate change makes the heat waves and drought now hitting South America more likely — and both contribute to wildfires by drying out the plants that feed the blazes.