When the roads flooded around Lismore, it left supermarket shelves empty for months. Keeping everyone fed took a huge community effort. Now we need to make food supply secure.
People who work outdoors are at particular risk during heat waves.
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When Peter Singer first published Animal Liberation in 1975, he wasn’t aware of climate change. But the new book, Animal Liberation Now, argues eating plants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Potentially dangerous air turbulence has increased on busy flight routes across the globe.
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New research has unravelled the mystery of why sea sponges die when the water gets too warm. The cause of death appears to be the sudden loss of microbes that usually act to detoxify sponge tissue.
Teaching climate change in schools raises basic and potentially divisive questions about the purpose of education and the nature of childhood.
The Sudbury 17 wildfire burns east of Mississagi Provincial Park near Elliot Lake, Ont., in this June 4, 2023 handout photo.
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Creating a federal agency — let’s call it the Emergency Management Agency of Canada or EMAC — would support comprehensive emergency management as Canada faces more and more natural disasters.
The Weddell Sea helps power the great ocean conveyor, which moves heat, carbon dioxide and nutrients around Earth’s ocean basins.
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Maybe it was a nuclear war, devastating climate change, or a killer virus. But if something caused people to disappear, imagine what would happen afterward.
Trucks, with goods, abandoned on Nigeria’s East-West highway cut off by flood in October 2022.
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