Canada was previously a world champion of climate action, but ahead of the heat of the 2025 federal election, Canada’s political leadership is quietly stepping away from the environment and into the arms of fossil fuel development. Only four years ago, climate change ranked as the most important issue on voters’ minds, prompting lawmakers to ...
The ground is actually blowing up in the far-off, frozen Yamal Peninsula of Siberia. Massive craters some as wide as 70 meters (230 feet) and deep enough to swallow a high-rise have started to show up without warning in 2014, leaving gaping wounds in the permifrost. These are violent, explosive events, hurling bits of earth ...
For decades, an invisible force, a strong ocean current, has guarded Antarctica’s icy stronghold as a natural barrier against the invading warmth of northern seas. New studies, however, show this shield is failing and the results could be disastrous. Meltwater from the collapsing ice sheets of the continent is accelerating the little-known but important Antarctic ...
