Inayat Singh

Canada's list of at-risk plants and animals got longer on Thursday — gaining five species that are now considered threatened or endangered, while seven others were reassessed by federal officials.

U.S. emissions could jump and the energy transition could take a major hit if the incoming Trump administration rolls back President Joe Biden’s climate policies, modelling analysis shows.

In west and central Africa, heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by war and disease.

This year’s hurricane season began ominously enough — with warnings from Canadian and U.S. forecasters that it was going to be rougher-than-normal season, and Hurricane Beryl plowing through the Caribbean as the earliest Category 5 storm in history.

The discovery of oxygen being produced on the ocean floor — apparently by ancient lumps of metal — has put the scientists behind the landmark study at odds with the Canada-based mining company that funded them.

The past 12 months have all surpassed 1.5 C above pre-industrial average temperatures, according to a new warning from the Copernicus climate research program. That isn’t the same as breaching the 1.5 C limit set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement, but it’s a major alarm that we’re close.

Human-caused climate change made a devastating May heat wave in Mexico, Central America and the southern U.S. 35 times more likely, a new study says. It also found that heat waves are set to happen way more often in the coming decades.

Restoration is the key to Canada’s efforts to reverse biodiversity loss — now a part of the country’s international obligations, after the COP15 UN biodiversity conference which was hosted in Montreal last December.

For the first time, Canada’s national energy regulator has looked at how oil and gas production will change in a world where countries hit their climate goals — and it shows a future without much demand for Canadian fossil fuels.

Makers of PFAS, a class of chemicals used in everything from cookware to food containers and makeup, knew the substances were toxic as early as the 1970s and obscured the danger, according to a new study based on industry archives held at the University of California.