A group of Canadian doctors are in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, this week at COP28 to raise awareness about the impacts climate change is having on the health of patients …
Getting the world off greenhouse gas-spewing fossil fuels is a key part of global climate negotiations. But whether those fossil fuels are “unabated,” and where we need to phase them …
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Climate change experts and activists, on Wednesday, converged in Abuja to discuss ways to minimise the burdens of climate change in Nigeria and how to leverage opportunities within the climate …
Topline Record heat across Europe last summer was responsible for more than 70,000 deaths, according to research published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, a figure that captures only …
Greenhouse gas emissions from transport have more than doubled since 1970 and are now the second-largest contributors to climate change. Countries must find a way to decouple demand for transport …
More than 200 medical journals are calling on the World Health Organization to deem two overlapping environmental crises — climate change and biodiversity loss — as a global health emergency, …
Canada has been successful in significantly reducing emissions, but the progress is being undercut by rising emissions in three sectors, a new report by the Canadian Climate Institute says. According …
There is a new and significant hurdle facing the massively over-budget and contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project running through Alberta and British Columbia. The Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc, a First …
Local emergency management agency says eruption on Hawaii’s Big Island ‘does not pose a lava threat to communities’. One of the world’s most active volcanoes has erupted again in the …