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Auditor slams Canada on lack of climate actions

Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)

The government must move "from a seemingly endless planning mode into an action mode," said Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Julie Ge...

Drought not dingos behind mainland Australia tiger extinction: study

Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)

The enigmatic animal -- also known as the thylacine -- was once widespread across the vast country, but was wiped out on the mainland around 3,000 years ago. Th...

Cost of climate disasters to reach half of US growth in a decade: report

Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)

Since some kinds of severe weather can be made worse or more frequent by climate change, action is needed to move the United States away from fossil fuels and t...

Science denial not limited to political right

Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)

But what happens when scientific conclusions challenge liberals' attitudes on public policy issues, such as gun control, nuclear power or immigration? A new stu...

Canada Tory MP called out for referring to minister as 'climate Barbie'

Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)

"Has anyone told our climate Barbie!" opposition MP Gerry Ritz, a former agriculture minister, wrote on Twitter after seeing a report that said no major industr...

Climate risk classification created to account for potential 'existential' threats

Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)

These categories describe two low-probability but statistically significant scenarios that could play out by century's end, in a new study by Veerabhadran Raman...

France hopeful of persuading Trump to stay in climate accord

Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)

Gary Cohn, the chief White House economic adviser, reiterated Trump's opposition to the landmark accord as he met over breakfast with officials from other major...

Carbon 'budget' may be bigger than thought: study

Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)

While this amounted to rare "good news" in the generally doom-and-gloom domain of climate science, it was no cause for complacency, said the authors of a study ...

US looks to work with Paris climate accord 'partners': Tillerson

Sep 17, 2017 (AFP)

"We want to be productive, we want to be helpful," Tillerson said on the CBS program "Face the Nation." His comments did not amount to a reversal from US Presid...

US says it will withdraw from Paris accord without more favorable terms

Sep 17, 2017 (AFP)

The remark came as environment ministers from some 30 countries gathered in Montreal seeking headway on the Paris climate accord, which President Donald Trump h...

Canada, China, EU and partners push forward on Paris climate accord

Sep 15, 2017 (AFP)

With more than half of G20 members attending -- representing most of the world's largest economies -- "this first gathering of its kind aims to further galvaniz...

Is the Earth warming? The ocean gives you the answer

Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)

Previously, the global mean surface temperature has been widely used as a key metric of global warming. However, a new study published in AGU's Eos proposed a b...

Warmer world may bring more local, less global, temperature variability

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

These local changes could occur even though Earth's global mean surface air temperature (GMST) is likely to become less variable, the study shows. "This new fin...

Climate change and hurricanes: do we need a smoking gun?

Sep 12, 2017 (AFP)

Call it the hurricane paradox. On the one hand, top experts point to the laws of physics, computer modelling, and measurable increases in sea levels and the tem...

Pope slams climate change deniers as 'stupid'

Sep 11, 2017 (AFP)

"Those who deny it (climate change) should go to the scientists and ask them. They are very clear, very precise," the pontiff said Monday during a press confere...

Series of potent hurricanes stokes scientific debate

Sep 09, 2017 (AFP)

First came Harvey, which unleashed massive floods in Texas, then three devastating hurricanes roared across the Atlantic simultaneously -- Irma, Katia and Jose....

Italy's drought seen from space

Sep 07, 2017 (ESA)

As local authorities work to mitigate the drought, scientists are turning their eyes to the sky for answers. Satellite data on soil moisture show that soils in ...

Periodic table of ecological niches could aid in predicting effects of climate change

Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)

The University of Texas at Austin's Eric Pianka, lead author on a paper published online this week in The American Naturalist, joined four other researchers in ...

Australia has hottest winter on record

Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)

Maximum daytime temperatures were 1.9 degrees Celsius (3.4 Fahrenheit) above the long-term national average of 21.8 during the June-August season, the Bureau of...

Researchers tackle methane emissions with gas-guzzling bacteria

Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)

Soil bacteria that oxidise methane (methanotrophs) are globally important in capturing methane before it enters the atmosphere, and we now know that they can co...