Climate Change

Periods of drizzle and light rain, and temperatures hovering around 1 C, are expected this weekend. File photo Photo by Ashley Fraser /Postmedia A rainfall warning remained in effect for Ottawa on Saturday morning with 20 to 30 mm expected to fall starting Friday night. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has…

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King penguins were almost hunted to extinction in the 19th and 20th centuries. Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the thousands of king penguins that densely congregate on the remote Possession Island each year now face a new threat: climate change. The birds spend most of their life at…

Even with Democrats narrowly controlling both houses of Congress, President Joe Biden was unable to convince lawmakers to fully fund his requests for contributions in fiscal 2022 or 2023 to international funds that help poor nations address climate change. Biden pledged to the United Nations in 2021 that the U.S.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Harlene Schwander didn't need a second warning from firefighters as a blaze burned toward her home in Klamath River, California, in July. Schwander told the Associated Press she only had time to grab a few prized possessions before fleeing. "I left everything," the artist said, including…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cities need to plant more trees. But not just any trees. As communities prepare for a massive influx of federal funding to support urban forestry, their leaders say the tree canopy that grows to maturity 50 years from now will need to be painted with a…

Monday 26 December 2022 1:00 pm Doughty quit football to focus on Hylo Athletics in 2020 just months after helping Swindon Town to win League Two In this interview first published in October 2022, former Premier League footballer Michael Doughty explains why he walked away from the game to set…

Can our planet recover from climate change? Commissioning Editor, Kofoworola Belo-Osagie, asked scientists to share the reasons they believe there is hope. Jennifer Fitchett, Associate Professor of Physical Geography, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa People are starting to notice the weather and…

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists have discovered a record number of dead fir trees in Oregon, a foreboding sign of how drought and the climate crisis are ravaging the American West. A recent aerial survey found that more than…

Data released by the United Nations shows that about 278 million people in Africa, around one-fifth of the continent’s total population, are affected by hunger as of 2021. This figure is about 50 million higher than in 2019. The 2022 Global Report on Food Crises showed that at least one in five…