Climate Change

Scientists and activists have deployed many tactics to help combat climate change: expanding technologies like wind and solar power, building better batteries to store that renewable energy, and protecting forests, all the while striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On Aug. 4, during the American Psychological Association’s Convention in Minneapolis,…

As climate change edges from crisis to emergency, the aviation sector looks set to miss its 2050 goal of net-zero emissions. In the five years preceding the pandemic, the top four U.S. airlines—American, Delta, Southwest, and United—saw a 15 percent increase in the use of jet fuel. Despite continual improvements…

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Andrew Knapp, managing director of Moose Power, a Toronto-based company that builds, owns, and operates solar, energy storage and micro-grid projects, speaks during a press conference outside the Constable John Atkinson Memorial Community Centre on renewable energy infrastructure, on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star The…

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Recession talk reached a fever pitch last week after the federal government said the U.S. economy shrank for a second consecutive quarter. On Monday, the United Nations issued a far more dire warning than any economy-related commotion could ever match: The world is in danger of nuclear disaster.  “Today, humanity…

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Predictions of catastrophic climate change seem endless – and already, its effects are hard to ignore. Events such as bushfires, floods and species loss generate feelings of sadness, anxiety and grief in many people. But this toll on the human psyche is often overlooked. Authors Ross Westoby Research Fellow, Griffith…

Before Dr Dahiru’s announcement, concerns had been raised about the prolonged delay in implementing the Climate Change Act, especially considering the five-year Action Plan timeline, with projections that the first plan should be produced no later than 12 months from the commencement of the Act. The legislation places climate change…

Topline The McKinney fire that sparked in northern California late last week has spread to more than 50,000 acres and grown into the state’s largest wildfire so far this year, as climate change makes the blazes more commonplace and more intense. Angela Crawford leans against a fence as a wildfire…