A drone photo from the Sampona commune of Madagascar on Feb. 11, 2022, shows Zebu cattle drinking water from a large puddle created from Cyclone Batsirai. The island nation’s south has been experiencing severe drought for the past four years, putting it in danger of what the World Food Programme calls “the world’s first climate change famine.” (Photo: Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Last year tied as world’s fifth-warmest on record, U.S. scientists say

Global CO2 emissions continue to rise

Brussels | Reuters — Last year was the world’s joint fifth-warmest on record and the last nine years were the nine warmest since pre-industrial times, putting the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5 C in serious jeopardy, U.S. scientists said on Thursday. Last year tied with 2015 as the fifth-warmest year

BELOW: Cows that were stranded in a flooded barn at Abbotsford, B.C. are rescued on Nov. 16 by people in boats and on a Jet Ski. photo: Reuters/Jennifer Gauthier

A wet week across Western Canada

EXTREMES | An 'atmospheric river' of Pacific moisture unloaded over British Columbia

There has been a lot going on in the weather across Western Canada, with record rains in British Columbia, fairly early and significant snows across much of the Prairies, and global temperatures still running warm despite La Niña. So, in this article I will go over the latest global temperatures and take a look at


Nowhere in the rule book does it say nature is required to worry about us getting too warm and conveniently start to cool us off just when we need it.

Thoughts on the little ice age and global warming

Our supply of fossil fuels can’t last forever, so seeking alternatives is inevitable

What topic to tackle this week? Sometimes it is a struggle to figure out what weather-related topic to discuss, especially during the winter months — doubly so during a quiet winter like this one. Then, it seems like I suddenly have more topics than I know what to do with. One topic I am going

Forecast: Split flow brings mild weather

Covering the period from January 29 to February 5

Once again, the weather models have been doing a decent job with the short- to medium-term forecasts. As usual, some of the smaller details are getting missed, but the models are handling the overall pattern quite well. For most of the last forecast period and the first part of this forecast period we have been


Like it or not, climate change will change your farm, say two experts

Like it or not, climate change will change your farm, say two experts

The growing season is already longer and extremes more common, say climatologist and crop specialist

Canada’s best-known climatologist always knows when he’s lost a crowd of producers he’s presenting to. It’s usually right around the time he starts talking about climate change. But he gets it. “Farmers have been beat up a lot — they’ve been accused of causing climate change,” said David Phillips, Environment and Climate Change Canada’s senior

Ring-tailed lemurs seek relief from heat as they eat iced food at a zoo in Rome, Italy, June 27, 2019.

European heat wave underlines need for more climate action

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is working for bigger commitments at a meeting in September

Reuters – “Shall we all just kill ourselves?” It was an odd title for a comedy night, but British stand-up Carl Donnelly turned out to have chosen an environmental theme with impeccable timing. With temperature records tumbling daily in last month’s European heat wave, a crowd in an east London bar seemed uniquely primed to


cracked earth on a sunny day

Planet continues to run hot

Don’t confuse our local weather with what’s happening globally

I wish I could open this article talking about how the medium-range forecast for the next couple of weeks is all about sunshine, warmth, and nice drying weather. Unfortunately, if you take a look at this issue’s forecast, it is looking like we might just be moving into a cool, wet period. Right now, I

A quick look back at global weather in 2018

We’re looking at a 90 per cent chance of a weak El Niño through this winter

To wrap up last year’s weather articles, I thought I would do a quick look back at how the globe fared, weather-wise, during 2018. To start, let’s look back at November: according to both NOAA and NASA, it was the fifth warmest on record with the only warmer months coming in 2015, 2013, 2010 and


Climate change appears to be setting Mother Nature up to hit even harder with hot and dry conditions throughout multiple regions.

Nature doubles down on climate warming

A new study shows regions are more often simultaneously experiencing hot and dry conditions

A warming climate is causing weather woes to hit both harder and further. Stanford University scientists say hot and dry conditions are now regularly hitting multiple regions at the same time. These crop yield shrinking, food price destabilizing and environmentally catastrophic conditions are now twice as likely. Climate change has doubled the odds that a

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U.S. government report says climate change will batter economy

Reuters — Climate change will cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century, hitting everything from health to infrastructure, according to a government report issued on Friday that the White House called inaccurate. The congressionally mandated report, written with the help of more than a dozen U.S. government