As extreme weather becomes more common, price spikes once seen as temporary may become something more lasting — and further ...
New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet. Two recent studies — one historical and the other forward-looking — examine how rising temperatures have made and could ...
The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...
It’s understandable that many discussions about the climate crisis focus on existential threats. Claims about human extinction combine the terrifying prospect of mass death with the terrible prospect ...
Two new studies warn that climate change is making the Amazon rainforest’s rainfall more sensitive to deforestation, lowering the threshold at which rainfall loss begins. Researchers found that ...
If all glaciers melt, sea level will rise by about 24cm. If the polar ice sheets melt, sea level will rise by more than 65m; ...
Climate change has become entangled in partisan politics. In Canada, as in other countries, climate concern and support for ...
The International Court of Justice issued a landmark advisory opinion in July 2025 declaring that all countries have a legal obligation to protect and prevent harm to the climate. The court, created ...
Global temperatures and rain patterns are affected by a climate phenomenon known as El Niño/La Niña.
Get ready to hear a lot more about El Niño during the next several months — and maybe even longer — as the infamous climate cycle returns again, developing and intensifying in the Pacific Ocean near ...