Climate Change

Destructive wildfires are part of life in much of the US now, as Americans adapt to the warming planet and its more intense weather starts to feel common. This summer, Spokane, Washington, most notably saw neighborhoods decimated and tens of thousands face evacuation. But wildfires affected much of the Western…

The country's largest state is still trying to address climate change—and the direction couldn't be more different from the signal out of D.C...Read More

The action plan continues to treat water primarily as an engineering, management and service delivery issue rather than as a systemic national crisis driven by the interaction of failing institutions, financial instability, corruption, deteriorating infrastructure, pollution, degraded rivers, wetlands and catchments, climate change and deep social inequality...Read More

Human-driven climate change made the extreme conditions behind this year's deadly Canadian wildfires twice as likely, according to a new study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group. The analysis found that higher global temperatures caused by burning fossil fuels increased the risk of fire-prone weather in Ontario and the…

W hen Ontario’s boreal forest erupted into flame halfway through July, Canadians were reminded of something they hadn’t experienced in a while: the material consequences of a changing climate. Scenes at once shocking and familiar seared our screens—titanic walls of flame photographed from a fleeing boat, video from the inside…

A new report says the conditions that fuelled July wildfires in Ontario and the Northwest Territories were made roughly twice as likely due to human-induced climate change...Read More

Wildfires in Canada. Credit: Wayne Wastaken. More than 3 million hectares have burned to date  ( Natural Resources Canada, 2026 ), prompting a Level 4 National Preparedness response ( GoC, 2026 , ciffc ). Although the season began with below-average wildfire activity, prolonged hot, dry weather through July has driven…

Centre for Ecosystem Management As climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, and overexploitation continue to reshape ecosystems worldwide, a central challenge for scientists and natural resource managers is understanding what makes ecosystems resilient—and how that resilience can be protected. A new synthesis paper recently published in Frontiers in Ecology &…

Betsy Robertson was standing in the center of the Spokane Convention Center on Monday afternoon, but she wasn’t there for a gala or a conference. Instead, the event space in the middle of Washington state’s second-largest city had been transformed into a Red Cross emergency shelter as a trio of…

Credit: Samson Katt from Pexels The power of social influence could be key to changing attitudes and behaviors around climate change, according to a new study by researchers at the Center for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST). The team examined the role of social influence in accelerating climate action,…