Faced with an almost guaranteed increase in climate-related disasters, Canada could improve its resilience by combining efforts to adapt to climate change with its approach to emergency response, according to a new report by the Council of Canadian Academies.
The rankings, just released by U.K.-based charity Christian Aid, map out 10 extreme events caused by climate change this year that caused $1.5 billion damage or more.
An extreme weather researcher says it's not yet clear whether this year's floods and heat waves in British Columbia can be attributed to human-caused climate change.
A new report examining the health impacts of climate change prompts warnings from doctors that we need to do more to adapt to the reality of a warmer planet.
Vermont on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, became the latest state to sue some of the country's top fossil fuel companies by alleging they misled the public about the impact their products have on climate change.
Soldiers were deployed on Sunday, September 12, 2021, in southeastern Spain to join the battle against a major wildfire that is burning for a fourth day, invigorated by stray embers that sparked a new hot spot.
It is imperative that educational institutions, including the University of Victoria, join schools across Canada that have committed to fossil fuel divestment, write University of Victoria students Hailey Chutter, Robin Pollard and Emma-Jane Burian.
The younger voters in Canada’s Sept. 20 election have particular needs they want addressed, not least a livable wage on an inhabitable planet, but the broader COVID-19 spending debate may eclipse them.
California's largest single wildfire in recorded history kept pushing through forestlands on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, as fire crews tried to protect rural communities from flames that have destroyed hundreds of homes.
The recent heat waves and fires sweeping Canada illustrate that the skeletons in the closets of Exxon and all fossil fuel companies have proven more than metaphorical, writes columnist Jesse Firempong.
