Climate Change

Beef production is a major driver of climate change. It fuels deforestation in crucial biomes, a significant source of carbon emissions, and cows themselves produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Regenerative ranching practices aim to reduce the environmental and climate impacts of rearing cattle, but some conservation groups say a…

Well-preserved Amazon rainforest on Indigenous lands can protect people from diseases, study findsRead More

Unsafe food leads to illness in an estimated 600 million people and causes 420,000 deaths globally each year (1, 2). Foodborne illness and death disproportionately affect children under the age of 5 and people in low-income countries (1). Access to safe and nutritious food is included in the United Nations…

From an evolutionary perspective, sharks are among the oldest animal species still alive today. Their persistence speaks to an extraordinary ability to survive multiple mass extinctions and adapt to vastly different ocean environments. But what the very first sharks looked like has long been a mystery, since fossil records of…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced an Agricultural and Climate Emergency in Pakistan, stressing that the country must act quickly to protect farmers and food security from the growing effects of climate change. This declaration comes at a time when floods, droughts, and unusual weather patterns are damaging crops and…

Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change , according to a study published Wednesday. Planet-warming emissions from 180 major cement, oil and gas producers contributed significantly to all of the heat events considered in the study, which was published in the journal…

Department of Finance Canada Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue, accompanied by the Honourable Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and Ryan Turnbull, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance and National Revenue…

Can we slow the melting of the ice caps? Ulrik Pedersen/NurPhoto/Shutte​rstock With carbon dioxide emissions still increasing, can geoengineering halt the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps and prevent massive sea level rises? No, according to a review of the five main ideas for polar geoengineering proposed so…

As world gets hotter, Americans are turning to more sugar, study findsRead More

African leaders are aiming to offer a global model for tackling the climate crisis through green investments, they said on Monday, after the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement deflated the fight against climate change. The continent, which has been buffeted by landslides, floods and droughts this year,…