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Jyoti Gondek may have raised a few eyebrows when she said her first order of business as Calgary's new mayor would be to declare a climate emergency in the...
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Jyoti Gondek may have raised a few eyebrows when she said her first order of business as Calgary's new mayor would be to declare a climate emergency in the...
Advocates for indoor farming say it could significantly reduce water and pesticide use, shorten shipping routes, limit food waste, and allow certain crops to be grown in new places...
The Biden administration plans to restore tough rules curbing one of the most potent greenhouse gases.
From the outside—and sometimes from the inside also—annual U.N. climate conferences known as COPs can seem like a bunch of aimless talk. For more than three decades, the U.N. has held these conferences, and the world is still on track for catastrophic warming. And so as 20,000 people, including around 120 world leaders, gather in Glasgow this year for COP26, I thought I would answer...
A rebate program that helps N.W.T. residents pay for energy-efficient appliances saw a "massive increase" in applications in the first year of the pandemic. Mark Heyck, the executive director of the Arctic Energy Alliance, said the incentive program distributed $540,000 in rebates in...
Robert Labradore from the Glooscap First Nation spoke at his old high school about his career.
U.S. President Joe Biden wants more oil to provide relief at the pumps, while for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the oilpatch is one of Canada's top exports. Both leaders are attempting to balance those economic realities with the need to reduce...
Five things you need to know about COP26 - the United Nations climate change conference - on Tuesday.
The Science Weekly podcast is in Glasgow where we will be bringing listeners daily episodes from Cop26. Each morning you will hear from one of the Guardian’s award-winning environment team. Today, host Madeleine Finlay hears why the Bahamas are under imminent threat from the climate crisis and what Guardian environment reporter Fiona Harvey makes of India’s commitment to be net zero – by...
The popular theme park became the site of a suspected Delta outbreak, with authorities mass testing tens of thousands in the pursuit of Covid zeroSee all our coronavirus coverageAs fireworks lit up the sky over Shanghai Disney Resort on Sunday, chatter began to spread through the crowds. Qian, a young Chinese woman who’d decided to spend her Halloween at the theme park, saw a Weibo alert from...
Beck’s work revolutionised the diagnosis and treatment of depression and other psychological disorders and continues to have a resounding influenceDr Aaron T Beck, a groundbreaking psychotherapist widely regarded as the father of cognitive therapy, died on Monday at his Philadelphia home aged 100.Beck’s work revolutionised the diagnosis and treatment of depression and other psychological...
More than 100 nations including Brazil, Russia and Indonesia will vow to protect forests when they sign COP26's first major deal.
It is the first such delay by Nasa since 1990 when the mission commander of Space Shuttle Atlantis fell illNasa has announced a rare health-related delay in its SpaceX rocket launch of four astronauts to the international space station, the second postponement of the mission in a week, citing an unspecified medical issue with one of the crew.The space agency on Monday described it as a “minor...
While all eyes are on the big players at COP26, the leaders of two small island states are hoping to make history.
Who are the people who will determine the success or failure of the climate summit?
The BBC’s Science Editor David Shukman takes a look inside the UN’s climate conference in Glasgow.
More than 100 global leaders have pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $19 billion US in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring...
A new study that modeled changes in the world's 45 different 'life zones' from climate change revealed that climate impacts may soon triple over these areas if the earth continues 'business-as-usual' emissions.
Researchers have shown that antibody levels against SARS-CoV-2 (the COVID-19 virus) stay more durable -- that is, remain higher over an extended period of time -- in people who were infected by the virus and then received protection from two doses of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine compared with those who only got immunized.