Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change

• Rising danger, crippling costs: Climate change report a grim warning for Canada

  By 2080, the report predicts cumulative forestry losses from fire, pests and other climate-change factors could add up to $459 billion.

  Environment

  Feb 28, 2022
  
• Heat warning in effect for most of the Maritimes

  A heat warning is in effect for all of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and most of Nova Scotia. Temperatures in the low-30s and humidex values at 40 are expected.

  Weather

  Aug 12, 2021
  
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• City of Calgary climate goals need updating but net zero still possible

  In 2018, Calgary city council unanimously approved revised goals of 80 per cent reduction of 2005 emissions by 2050, but a city official says net zero is still possible.

  Canada

  Aug 9, 2021
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• U.N. climate change report ‘a wake up call,’ says activist Greta Thunberg

  Activist Greta Thunberg, who has rallied youth to protest for climate action worldwide, said people's awareness of climate change was increasing, but "very slowly."

  Environment

  Aug 9, 2021
• ‘We’re all in big trouble’: UN climate report says oceans rising, ice melting faster

  “The oceans and the icy parts of the world are in big trouble and that means we’re all in big trouble, too,” said one of the report’s lead authors, Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University. “The changes are accelerating.”

  Weather

  Sep 25, 2019
• Upcoming climate summit gives spotlight to world leaders with a plan

  As if to underscore the seriousness of the problem, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization released a science report Sunday showing that in the last several years, warming, sea level rise and carbon pollution have all accelerated.

  World

  Sep 22, 2019
• ‘Historic’ Halifax seawall being redeveloped as municipality seeks to reduce impact of climate change

  Construction crews could be seen hard at work at the Horshoe Island Park seawall this week as they continued their efforts to prepare the municipality's sea walls

  Environment

  Jul 10, 2019
• Prime Minister hears NS praise on environmental spending, as protesters arrested

  Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil thanked Trudeau for providing "a good start" to the costs of cleaning up a lagoon near Pictou Landing First Nation where decades of contaminated pulp mill waste has accumulated.

  Politics

  May 24, 2019
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• Canada is warming and it’s irreversible. Why is it so hard to care?

  "We have been talking to people about something that doesn’t feel relevant to them."

  Environment

  Apr 3, 2019
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• Sackville, N.B. students demand action regarding ‘climate crisis’

  Students are worried about the younger and future generations, saying governments have failed us and left us in what many called a "climate crisis."

  Environment

  Mar 15, 2019