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.
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Climate change – Analysis and Comment
Freshening seawater around Antarctica is disrupting a global ocean conveyor which regulates the climate.
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.
Nigeria’s new President Bola Ahmed Tinubu faces a number of challenges. But climate change cannot be ignored.
Answers to some of the most common questions about wildfire smoke, health risks and the air quality situation affecting most of North America.
The likely El Niño is bad timing for the electricity sector, and means Australians may face supply disruptions and volatile prices.
Heatwaves are often the result of these bursts of warm, southerly air.
Everyone loves a barbecue – here’s how to enjoy it while being mindful of our planet.
A ‘greenhushing’ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in how they write policies and invest.
Do environmental reviews improve projects or delay them and drive up costs? Two legal scholars explain how the law works and how it could influence the ongoing transition to renewable energy.
Our annual reports will update the world on the climate’s vital signs.
When the rainforests burned, the leaf litter did too – and with it, billions of invertebrates vital to healthy ecosystems.
Labour would still honour existing licenses to drill for fossil fuels.
It’s not a question of if insurance will become unavailable or unaffordable in areas at high risk of wildfires, hurricanes and other damage – it’s a question of when. A disaster risk expert explains.
A 90% crop loss in the Peach State may sound like a disaster, but Georgia isn’t actually the Big Apple of peach production that it claims to be.
The scale of climate threat is beyond the tools we have to manage the Great Barrier Reef. New measures and sustained effort are needed.
Two formidable forces have converged to push Nigeria’s food security to the brink: climate change, with its unpredictable weather patterns, and terrorism.
A short history of predicting an ice-free Arctic – and why you should listen to this one.
Behavior-based interventions could boost conservation efforts, but raise their own set of tricky ethical issues.
Humans rely on the ocean for food, jobs and other resources, but these systems are being stressed to the brink.
Refugee settlements are particularly affected by high temperatures and extreme rainfall, even more so than the rest of their host countries.
Renters with nowhere to go. Home owners forced into mortgage stress. If our homes are damaged by floods or fires, it damages our health for years afterwards
New research about underground fungal filaments suggests these networks store a vast amount of carbon. All the more reason to preserve them.
The environmental pawprint of pets is huge – and it’s mostly down to what we feed them.
We want good news on climate change. But whales storing enough carbon needs more evidence.