Climate Change

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Author of the article: Staff Reporter Hot humid weather expected. Photo by Ashley Fraser /Postmedia Article content As local lawns and gardens sighed in relief from the 14.4 mm of rain that fell Saturday night, the human population is…

As I'm writing this on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 28th, Hurricane Ida is bearing down on the Louisiana coast just south of New Orleans. Churning over unusually warm waters, it is expected to strengthen into a monster Category 4 hurricane before making landfall on Sunday. No matter where it's…

Filmmaker Lucy Walker joins Major Garrett to talk about her documentary "Bring Your Own Brigade." She also discusses how climate change impacts the ongoing wildfires and why the wealthy hire private firefighters to save their homes on this week's episode of "The Takeout with Major Garrett." Read More

When it comes to the climate emergency, the scientific consensus is clear: human activity is heating Earth more rapidly now than at any point in the last 2,000 years. This is causing rapid, widespread changes to our oceans, our atmosphere and our biosphere. The effects will continue for decades, possibly…

For much of the last decade, journalists have described “the California model” of high taxes, strong regulations, and aggressive action on climate change as the progressive template for the rest of the United States. After voters elected Donald Trump president in 2016, they elevated California as the leader of the national…

More species in warm watersPast patterns of diversity can be used as a baseline for understanding how current human-induced changes are affecting biodiversity. Womack et al. looked at mollusk fossils from 40 million years ago in New Zealand to determine how ocean temperatures influence species richness and functional redundancy, a…

Climate change is affecting farming all over the world, and solutions are seldom simple. But if you could plant crops that resisted the heat, cold or drought instead of moving a thousand miles away, wouldn’t you? Avalo helps plants like these become a reality using AI-powered genome analysis that can…

The Caldor Fire in California and Greenwood Lake Fire in Minnesota are fuelled by climate change, a new report concludes. Enormous wildfires in California and Minnesota are forcing tourists to change their plans in two US vacation spots as a new study blames climate change for creating conditions that fuel…

Between Tropical Storm Henri, Hurricane Grace, and torrential downpours in Tennessee, it was a bad weather weekend for people living on the eastern side of North America On Saturday, flash floods overwhelmed the rural town of Waverly, Tennessee, damaging bridges and in some cases sweeping entire houses off of their…

Climate change made the deadly floods that devastated parts of Germany and Belgium last month up to nine times more likely, according to an international study published Tuesday. At least 190 people lost their lives in severe floods that pummelled western Germany in mid-July, and at least 38 people perished…