Thousands of emails to and from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have been published online.
At least a tenth of the world s mature giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year, according to a draft report prepared by scientists with the National Park Service.
TORONTO Beyond its environmental threat, climate change is endangering public health in Canada in ways that will have significant human and financial costs, a new report says.
The report, which was released Wednesday by the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices (CICC), estimates that the impact of climate change on health in Canada will add up to hundreds of billions of dollars, while drastically increasing hospitalizations and premature deaths due to weather-related issues, based on their current numbers. Ryan Ness, the CICC s director of adaptation, told CTVNews.ca that without immediate action, climate change will also leave Canada with a public health crisis, the consequences of which will disproportionately be borne by those who are already grappling with an outsized share of health inequities.
In this week s Riskin Report on CTVNews.ca, CTV News Science and Technology Specialist Dan Riskin explains the green benefits that don t always show up in arguments over land use.
PARIS, FRANCE The world may temporarily breach the 1.5 C warming mark within the next five years, according to an updated assessment of global climate trends released Thursday. The World Meterological Organization and Britain s Met Office said there was a 40 per cent chance of the annual average global temperature surpassing 1.5 C above pre-industrial temperatures the aspirational warming limit of the Paris climate accord. According to the Met Office s updated global 10-year climate prediction, there is a 90 per cent chance of at least one year between 2021-2025 being the hottest on record. The annual average global temperature over the next five years is likely to be at least 1 C warmer than pre-industrial levels, within a range of 0.9 C-1.8 C warmer, it said.