Climate Change

A local expert says that climate change is putting the squeeze on one of Canada’s most valuable exports. At Gorr’s Maple Syrup in Harrowsmith, Ont., Gary Gorr, who has been tapping maple trees for over 30 years, said he has seen the practice of producing maple syrup change over the…

As the need to address climate change becomes increasingly urgent so too does the concurrent need for proactive stewardship of the Earth's rapidly changing biosphere, according to research published today in the journal Science. "There is actually a lot we can do to help systems cope with oncoming climate change,"…

As rising sea levels cause marshes to move inland in six mid-Atlantic states, the coastal zone will not continue to serve as a carbon sink but release more carbon into the atmosphere, a new modeling study led by researchers at Duke University finds. Earlier estimates focused on the potential for…

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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has pledged greater cooperation with India on climate change and defence and says China has a duty to reassure its neighbours that it is not a risk to their security. Mr Marles, who is on a four-day visit to India, used a speech in New…

As autocratic regimes threaten the rules-based international order, the security and defence impacts of climate change increase, and our competitors develop new technologies like hypersonic weapons and advanced cruise missiles, there is a pressing need to modernize the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) that has kept Canadians and Americans…

Lake Geneva. Credit: Benoit Tissu Throughout the middle of the 20th century, phosphorus inputs from detergents and fertilizers degraded the water quality of Switzerland's Lake Geneva, spurring officials to take action to remediate pollution in the 1970s. "The obvious remedy was to reverse the phosphorus loading, and this simple idea…

History & CultureMeet the pageant queen who is raising awareness about climate change. ByNeha Wadekar Published June 20, 2022 • 13 min read Garissa, Kenya Twenty-one-year-old Khadija Omar stands by the trough at a giraffe sanctuary in Garissa County, northern Kenya, wearing a silk sash that reads Miss Somalia and…

Alexis Romero - The Philippine Star June 20, 2022 | 12:00am Climate Change Commission Secretary Robert Borje said key issues like financing for climate loss and damage and improved modalities to access technology and build capacities did not gain further traction despite previous pronouncements of commitments by parties to the…

According to a new study, trees are living about half as long as they formerly did. This trend was discovered to be widespread throughout species and locations across the region. According to new research, climate change may have caused rainforest trees to die more quickly starting in the 1980sThe results…