Less than a week after a deadly “heat dome” devastated western Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest and burned Lytton, B.C. to the ground, an international science team is reporting that the…
Anthropogenic warming of climate has been a factor in extreme precipitation events globally, researchers say.
Human activity such as such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use change were a key…
Reducing global heating could save millions of people from mosquito-borne diseases, study finds
More than 8 billion people could be at risk of malaria and dengue fever by 2080 if greenhouse gas…
The Independent was the first international news outlet to be allowed into the destroyed town of Lytton, British Columbia. Ashleigh Stewart joined residents seeing the extent of the destruction for…
Water investigators track down wasteful homeowners and public turf torn up to conserve scarce water supplies
Investigator Perry Kaye jammed the brakes of his government-issued vehicle to survey…
Coronavirus and wildfires were already making life very difficult for unhoused people in the Pacific Northwest, and this week’s record-breaking heat wave just made things worse, writes Josh Marcus…
It's hard not to think about how hot it's been — even if you live somewhere that has escaped the heat in the past few weeks. When British Columbia clocks temperatures of 121° F, it gets the world's…
Growth in large-scale U.S. solar capacity is projected to exceed that of wind next year for the first time.
That’s according to a report Wednesday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.…
Ahead of COP26 in November, investors managing more than USD 6 trillion in assets have called for a coordinated global price on carbon to reach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global average…
Ambitious draft goals to halt biodiversity loss revealed, with proposed changes to food production expected to ‘raise eyebrows’.
Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds,…
As calls to end government subsidies of fossil fuels grow in intensity, a new report finds that Canadian governments have allocated billions of taxpayer dollars to building and expanding new…
But watchdog warns government that costs will double if it delays action to cut emissions
The UK’s climate targets will cost the government less over the next 30 years than the price of battling the…
It's "a frightening warning sign," said one observer.
"Heartbreaking," another commented.
"Can we now mobilize en masse to save all Earthly beings?" asked another.
Satellite data shows temperature peaks are lasting longer and rising higher
North America endured the hottest June on record last month, according to satellite data that shows temperature peaks…
The mammoth plan sets out how Europe will slash emissions over the next decade.
Although it sounds like an exercise program for the middle-aged — Fit for 55 is actually the European Commission's…
Extreme weather killed hundreds in the US and Canada and experts say heat could have played a role in many more deaths.
The intense heatwave in June and July in the US and Canada has already caused…
Younger people have been more aware of the risks compared with older groups, but over the past decade that has changed
On his early morning bike rides to school, David Yockney would deliberately…
Research into unproven technofixes isn’t a replacement for eliminating emissions, even if the debate over geoengineering is stuck on that concern.
Typical climate discourse is already polarizing…
A torrent of melted snow has flooded rivers and streams near Mount Rainier following record-setting heat throughout Washington.
“We had a huge amount of snowmelt over a short period of time,” said…
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