This year’s string of record-breaking disasters, from deadly wildfires and catastrophic floods to extreme ocean temperatures and dwindling Antarctic sea ice, underscores the acceleration of human-induced climate change.
Ecologists predict significant changes in the charred hills surrounding Okanagan Lake in British Columbia’s Interior following devastating wildfires.
Leaves in tropical forests across South America to Southeast Asia are reaching temperatures so high that they could cease to perform photosynthesis, warns a new study.
Increasingly severe and frequent wildfires, exacerbated by rising temperatures and drought due to climate change, are transforming Canada’s boreal forest ecosystem.
Canada’s 2023 wildfires have emitted around 1.5 billion tonnes of CO2, triple the annual emissions from burning fossil fuels in the country and surpassing the emissions of 100 nations combined. This year’s wildfires contribute to a multi-decade surge of CO2 emissions from Canada’s “managed” forests. After 2001, Canada’s forests emitted more CO2 than they absorbed, …
Major agriculture producers, including Brazil, are pushing back against new European Union (EU) regulations that require proof of crops being grown on non-deforested land, citing increased food production costs.
New research has uncovered evidence that most of Greenland melted only about 400,000 years ago, suggesting the country may be more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.
Massive eruptions roughly 719 million years ago in what is now Canada may have sucked enough CO2 from the atmosphere to freeze Earth over 2 million years later.
Minimal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, a new study suggests.
Across the planet, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy landscapes are thawing. Scientists have now recorded “regime shifts” like these in more than 20 different types of ecosystems where tipping points have been passed.
