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Creating the electricity for artificial intelligence could great increase greenhouse gas emissions and make climate change worse, a researcher says.

Climate change, not habitat loss, may be the biggest threat to the survival of threatened caribou herds, new research suggests. The consequences could be profound. 

The funds can be used towards environmental projects such as recycling and waste reduction, tree planting and greenhouse gas emission reduction programs.

The study found the heat dome in June and July 2021 was 34 per cent larger and lasted 59 per cent longer than a similar event would have without climate change.

Scorching hot days and frigid cold spells may be contributing to an increasing number of deaths and disabilities from stroke, according to a new study.

A new BMO report said 39 per cent Canadians say climate-related factors such as wildfires, floods, heatwaves, and storms will affect where they live in the next five years.

Wind and solar operators in Canada are being urged to reduce the likelihood of future catastrophic grid outages by making their infrastructure more resilient to climate change.

Vancouver councillors said the plan was too expensive and have sent it back to the park board to be refocused specifically on ways to protect the shoreline from climate change.

Scientists worry that climate change and the threat of another year of drought could have further dire consequences for populations of salmon, trout and other fish in B.C.

The mapping project explores how different Alberta communities are more or less vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change.

The Ontario budget's failure to directly address climate change represents a "gross abdication of responsibility" by the government, some critics argue.

Taxpayer money already supports the agriculture industry and some say the bill will go up as climate change-driven natural disasters make it harder for farmers to eke out a living.

Manitoba Environment and Climate Change said Friday that fish from Schist Lake -- near Flin Flon along the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border -- contain elevated amounts of selenium.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the carbon price is dividing Canadians and there has to be a unified approach to addressing climate change.

Climate change is “speeding up,” the head of the United Nations says as B.C. and Alberta prepare for an early start to wildfire season.

Bodies and minds are just as affected by climate change as sea ice and forests, says University of Alberta scientist Sherilee Harper.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on The West Block that the carbon price increase is necessary to solve climate change and comes at a small cost to Canadians.

Terri Lang, meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada said the weather system is moving in from Alberta and is already on its way.

After the owners of a processing plant announced its closure, there's fear that it's not only the Matane shrimp that are on their way out, but the Quebec shrimp fishery as a whole.

Alberta’s recent delegation at the UN climate change conference COP28 was the largest in the province’s recent history at a cost of more than $160,000.