Marine ecosystems across Canada’s coasts, such as eelgrass meadows that provide an important habitat for juvenile species, are threatened by human activities and climate change.
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It is time to acknowledge and address the rapid shifts in Canada’s oceans. To meet this challenge, Canada’s marine conservation toolbox — starting with the Oceans Act — needs an overhaul.
Changes in climate affect the timings of various points in the life cycle of plants, including when flowers bloom in spring and when leaves wither in autumn.
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Climate change is modifying the timing of recurrent life-cycle events with critical consequences on ecological and economic levels.
Common hazel dispersing pollen in early spring.
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Pollen brings seasonal misery to millions of Americans, but it serves a critical purpose: fertilizing many kinds of plants, including food crops.
Layered ice sheets can be vulnerable to fracturing.
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Melting lakes on ice shelves can widen cracks within them - new research shows how these lakes change across the world’s largest sheet.
Farmer-herder conflicts in some parts of the continent are in part driven by environmental degradation.
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Under certain conditions, climate can amplify security risks, with implications for lasting peace.
A child in the Mathare informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Cities have the authority and duty to consider children’s rights as part of climate change responses.
Household waste in the Port of Durban after the 2019 floods.
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Experts in city government are missing the perspective of residents.
Numbers of forest-dependent orchid bees in Brazil have been found to have declined by around 50%.
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Insect numbers and species decline steeply where agriculture and habitat loss coincide. Preserving natural habitat can reduce losses up to nine-fold
Eight countries with territory in the Arctic make up the Arctic Council.
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The Arctic Council was the world’s primary forum for cooperation among the eight Arctic nations and a channel for diplomacy – until Russia launched a war.
This generation finds itself part of a problem it did not create, but it is also part of the solution.
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There are ways to convey the hard scientific facts about climate change and help young generations adapt in the face of adversity and manage change over time.
The red mangrove is among the species already selected for genome sequencing.
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The African BioGenome Project is a pan-African project that seeks to sequence Africa’s endemic and indigenous plants and animals.
Word from The Hill: On Katherine Deves, a hung parliament, and the new silence about COVID
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
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Notwithstanding COVID, this political term has been framed by extreme events such as the Black Summer bushfires and floods – and it will show at the ballot box.
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Until now, export credit agencies - publicly-owned banks - have gone under the radar on fossil fuel financing. That’s about to change.
Solar panels have become increasingly common on homes as prices have fallen.
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Solutions already exist. What’s holding humanity back is the will to get past the status quo and embrace innovation.
The Earth viewed from the Apollo 8 lunar mission on Dec. 24, 1968.
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The Earth is a resilient planet, but people are altering it in ways that may take centuries to reverse.
Spring herring and Atlantic mackerel fisheries are among the most lucrative in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and brought in more than $1.3 billion to Québec and Atlantic fishers in 2020.
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Suspending mackerel and spring herring fishing in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence will impact the fishing industry on many levels.
Canada is the fourth-largest oil producer in the world, with almost all of its crude oil headed for the United States.
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The recently released Emissions Reductions Plan aims to put Canada on track to reduce emissions by up to 45 per cent from 2005 and reach net-zero emissions by 2050. It will do neither.
A structure damaged after a mudslide in Clermont, near Durban, South Africa.
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A quarter of South Africans in cities are living in informal settlements.
A general view of the damage in an informal settlement heavy rains, mudslides and winds in Durban, on April 13, 2022.
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Women and girls living in poverty face many forms of discrimination and pressure during events like flood disasters.