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Environment Canada can spot and issue warnings about severe weather faster and with more precision with 32 newly upgraded weather radar stations across the country. Storm clouds move across the sky as Environment Canada issued tornado warnings Thursday, July 13, 2023 in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Musch
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Canada’s radar station upgrades could hasten severe weather warnings

Environment Canada can now spot and issue warnings about severe weather faster and more precisely with 32 newly upgraded weather radar stations across...

FILE PHOTO: John Podesta, the White House senior adviser for clean energy, delivers a speech during the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 6, 2023.  REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo
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US discussed ‘overcapacity’ in Chinese solar manufacturing, coal in climate talks

The United States and China discussed Chinese overcapacity in solar and battery manufacturing, steel production and coal power during two days of bilateral...

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U.S., China to discuss methane at COP29 summit: State Dept.

The U.S.-China Climate Working Group intends to discuss methane and non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gasses at the upcoming United Nations COP29 climate summit.

A solar storm could  bring auroras -- also known as 'Northern lights' or 'Southern lights,' depending on the hemisphere -- to night skies where such phenomenon aren't normally visible (AFP)
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Solar storm could bring auroras, power and telecoms disruptions: U.S. officials

A huge solar storm is heading for Earth, supercharging auroras and bringing possible disruptions to satellites and power grids as early as Friday...

Aerial view of floods in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, taken on May 9, 2024 (AFP)
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Brazil floods strike blow to powerful agriculture sector

Agronomist Eduardo Assad, who studies the effects of climate change on agriculture, said Brazil "will begin to suffer severe crop losses" if the...

The P.E.I. government has introduced a new suite of online tools to help Islanders assess flooding and erosion risks associated with climate change. A man takes a photo of a fallen tree in Charlottetown on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Rochford
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Canada’s P.E.I. introduces new risk assessment tools for flooding, erosion

The provincial government of Canada's Prince Edward Island has introduced a new suite of online tools to help Islanders assess flooding and erosion...

Faced with dwindling fish numbers, Indigenous Ecuadorans look to the spirit world for help (AFP)
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Envious shamans and climate change: Diverse threats to Ecuadoran Amazon

Experts point the finger at pollution, deforestation and climate change wreaking havoc on the second-largest protected area in Ecuador. 

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Africa dramatically dried out 5,500 years ago – new study may warn of future climate tipping points

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that before northern Africa dried out, its climate “flickered” between two stable climatic states before...

Judy Bruce, hidden, 85, and Reverend Sue Parfitt, 82, targeted the protective enclosure around the historic Magna Carta document (Just Stop Oil/PA)
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Just Stop Oil protesters in their 80s smash Magna Carta display case

Elderly activists from Just Stop Oil target Magna Carta, historic artefact of the English legal system, in latest protest against fossil fuels.

A Swiss start-up unveiled on Wednesday its second plant in Iceland sucking carbon dioxide from the air and storing it underground (AFP)
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Iceland’s ‘Mammoth’ raises potential for carbon capture

How a "giant SodaStream" inside a volcano takes CO2 from the air and buries it underground in pioneering Iceland carbon capture project

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