Poor seed produces have actually triggered vacant racks at grocery stores in France as well as worldwide deficiencies Climate improvement and also increasing prices are actually creating food stores in France to lack dijon mustard, questioning over whether the scarcity might infect various other countries.French mustard manufacturers stated seed development in 2021 was actually down […]
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Canada floods: 18,000 people still stranded in ‘terrible, terrible disaster’
Alarm grows about climate change in British Columbia after summer wildfires wiped out vegetation that could have slowed flooding Emergency crews in western Canada were still trying to reach some 18,000 people stranded by landslides and struggling to find food among bare grocery store shelves after devastating flooding. With communities in the region braced for […]
North America endured hottest June on record
Satellite data shows temperature peaks are lasting longer and rising higher North America endured the hottest June on record last month, according to satellite data that shows temperature peaks lasting longer as well as rising higher. The heat dome above western Canada and the north-west United States generated headlines around the world as daily temperature […]
‘We thought it wouldn’t affect us’: heatwave forces climate reckoning in Pacific north-west
Left-leaning states had focused on how global heating would affect others. Then the ‘heat dome’ arrived The record heatwave in the Pacific north-west is forcing a reckoning on the climate crisis, as many living in the typically mild region consider what rising temperatures mean for the future. A “heat dome” without parallel trapped hot air […]
Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models
Scientists fear heat domes in North America and Siberia indicate a new dimension to the global crisis If you were drawing up a list of possible locations for hell on Earth before this week, the small mountain village of Lytton in Canada would probably not have entered your mind. Few people outside British Columbia had […]
Nowhere is safe, say scientists as extreme heat causes chaos in US and Canada
Governments urged to ramp up efforts to tackle climate emergency as temperature records smashed Climate scientists have said nowhere is safe from the kind of extreme heat events that have hit the western US and Canada in recent days and urged governments to dramatically ramp up their efforts to tackle the escalating climate emergency. The […]
Canadian Conservative party votes not to recognize climate crisis as real
Delegates vote 54%-46% against policy change request Leader O’Toole has sought ambitious climate change agenda Canada’s main opposition Conservative Party members have voted down a proposal to recognize the climate crisis as real, in a blow to their new leader’s efforts to embrace environmentally friendly policies before a likely federal election this year. Related: ‘Climate […]
Mark Carney: ‘I didn’t want the Bank of England job. But I was asked to fix something’
He earned a fortune at Goldman Sachs, but now the banker wants the financial sector to reassess its values and tackle the climate emergency Read an exclusive extract from Carney’s book Mark Carney is no ordinary banker. He is the banker’s banker, the superstar banker, the George Clooney of banking, possibly even the James Bond […]
The Guardian view on the climate and coronavirus: global warnings | Editorial
Steep falls in emissions have been the pandemic’s immediate effect. But what’s needed is a green recovery Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage So far, discussions of a coronavirus exit strategy have mainly focused on the steps that could bring an end to the lockdown. In the short term, both in the […]
Arctic wildfires are releasing as much carbon as Belgium did last year
During the past few weeks, the top of the world has been burning. Vast swaths of the Arctic, from Alaska to Siberia, are on fire, with scientific agencies breaking out the term “unprecedented” to describe the situation. To the ecologists who work in the Arctic, this pyrotechnic summer is both weird and weirdly unsurprising: This […]