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Trump won’t confront the climate crisis. He’ll feast off it.
Floods, fires, financial collapse—our MAGA oligarchs can’t wait.
Climate action demands a new understanding of Canadian life
Canada will fail to protect its most vulnerable communities and fail to fully reap the rewards of playing an integral role in the transition to renewable energy that is sweeping the globe, unless we move much faster.
Do extreme weather events make people care more about climate change? Depends
Over the last seven years, as the effects of climate change have begun to envelop the world in smoke and storm, natural disasters have in fact leapt front of mind for voters when they contemplate the most important reasons to take climate action. Those concerns, however, aren’t shared evenly across the political spectrum.
The new gods of weather can make rain on demand—or so they want you to believe
In a gold-trimmed command center on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, scientists are seeking to wring moisture from desert skies. But will all their extravagant cloud-seeding tech—planes that sprinkle nanomaterials, lasers that scramble the atmosphere—really work at scale?
Extreme weather pushes up food prices
Extreme weather events like fires, floods, heat waves and droughts pose an increasing risk to Canada’s food supply chain, putting pressure on prices all the way to the grocery store shelf, say experts.
B.C. doesn't track groundwater usage and experts worry as drought extends
The province doesn't keep track of exact usage by most groundwater licence holders, the Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship confirmed.
Savour your favourite wine before climate change destroys it
Extreme heat and droughts are making it harder to grow grapes in many traditional regions. Here’s how scientists are helping the industry adapt.
New research puts this winter’s wild weather in frightening context
when the numbers keep breaking the wrong records — 2023 was the hottest year on record — sometimes we just have to tally it up.
Canada’s climate debate is becoming a snoozefest
Canadians aren’t to blame for wildfires, so why is climate support being framed in terms of individual responsibility?
Canada slow to force companies to disclose pollution
Regulators around the world are increasingly forcing them to disclose their carbon emissions, along with other key climate change considerations such as how much financial risk they face.
How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate? A long push for progress and energy to fuel it
Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Climate crisis costing $16M an hour in extreme weather damage
A new analysis shows at least $2.8 trillion in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heat waves.
Wonky weather is coming for our crops
Conversations with farmers in hot and wildfire and flooded areas of B.C. or Fiona-battered, wildfire and flooded areas in Nova Scotia are sprinkled with exclamations of “So much loss!” But even Ontario farmers should prepare for wonky weather.
Science journal retracts article claiming no evidence of climate crisis
Publisher Springer Nature says the 2022 article is "not supported by available evidence" as its editors launch an investigation.