Climate Change

Deep tech, or technology based on scientific research and discoveries, is taking up more space at major innovation conferences like VivaTech, which takes place in Paris until June 18. In France, this approach is seen as particularly relevant to the problems of the 21st century, with the increase in epidemics…

Maddison Gourlay/Stuff This video was shot at Timaru's Dashing Rocks on Thursday afternoon. He was a man with a curious mind who made a significant scientific discovery, and for the late John Hardcastle, living in South Canterbury provided the perfect backdrop for his research. News director Rachael Comer reports. More…

Mass extinction lurks beneath the surface of the sea. That was the dire message from a study published in April in the journal "Science", which found that continuing to emit greenhouse gases unchecked could trigger a mass die-off of ocean animals that rivals the worst extinction events in Earth's history. The findings…

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A group of several hundred polar bears in south-eastern Greenland often catch seals by waiting outside their prey's breathing holes on blocks of floating freshwater ice from glaciers, in an example of the animals adapting to a loss of sea ice driven by climate change Life 16 June 2022 By…

By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, Bonn Image source, Getty Images Image caption, A woman uses a fan to cool a child during the recent heatwave in India Two weeks of climate talks in Germany have ended in acrimony between rich and poor countries over cash for climate damage. Developing countries…

CBC Alberta and Saskatchewan have teamed up for a new pilot series on weather and climate change on the prairies. Meteorologist Christy Climenhaga will bring her expert voice to the conversation to help explain weather phenomena and climate change and how it impacts everyday life. Our climate has been steadily…

In January 2021, Democrats got a little lucky: Defying expectations, the party won a pair of Georgia Senate seats, securing a razor-thin majority in the upper house. But even 50 seats in the Senate have not been enough for Democrats to pass any major legislation addressing climate change—especially with West…

June 14, 2022Updated: June 14, 2022 4:33 a.m. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of5FILE - An oil well works at sunrise Aug. 25, 2021, in Watford City, N.D., part of McKenzie County. U.N. Secretary-Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday, June 14, of a “dangerous disconnect” between what…

SINGAPORE — Fiji’s defense minister said on Sunday that climate change posed the biggest security threat in the Asia-Pacific region, a shift in tone at a defense summit that has been dominated by the war in Ukraine and disputes between China and the United States. The low-lying Pacific islands, which…