Climate Change

- Company to support the Center’s work to conduct groundbreaking research with a five-year, $10 million contribution - Boeing joins inaugural Center supporter FedEx as well as Southwest Airlines in supporting the study of natural carbon capture CHICAGO – WEBWIRE – Friday, April 22, 2022 Boeing today announced its support…

A recent study shows that the tiny copepod crustacean is the ocean’s equivalent of a canary in a coal mine. New research demonstrates that these “cows of the sea” may be able to evolve to adapt to climate change — but it could come at the cost of their resiliency,…

John Burke, the president and CEO of Trek Bicycle, believes an active role that any business takes to slow global warming is good for the bottom line, even if upfront costs only create a benefit somewhere down the road. He is, after all, in a business that views cycling not…

As stewards of the land, Canadian farmers are on the front lines of climate change and among the first to feel its effects. As we celebrate Earth Day, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Francis Drouin,…

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In Europe, activists in Berlin, Warsaw, Brussels and elsewhere were set for rallies outside German government or embassy buildings, where they will hand out red-stained roubles to symbolize blood covering a currency they say is fuelling both climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Germany is one of the European…

Warmer temperatures and intense agriculture may be responsible for a 49 per cent decline in insect numbers in some areas, with the tropics worst hit Environment 20 April 2022 By Carissa Wong The paper kite butterfly (Idea leuconoe); insect species are on the decline Shutterstock/trancedrumer The combined effects of climate…

OTTAWA — Governments should consider extreme heat a natural disaster as climate change raises the risk of soaring summer temperatures in much of Canada, a new report says. OTTAWA — Governments should consider extreme heat a natural disaster as climate change raises the risk of soaring summer temperatures in much…

When it comes to food, humanity’s looking down the barrel of a gun. The world’s population will balloon to almost 9.8 billion by 2050, leading to an expected 60-percent increase in demand for food. And the devastating effects of climate change aren’t doing any favors for our farming. But there…

The loss of life and monumental destruction in KwaZulu-Natal resulting from the recent astronomical floods is an event unprecedented in the history of our country. The profound contents of the 2018 World Meteorological Organization report on climate change and its global consequences delivered  a chilling message to humankind to modify…