Cities – Impacts
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Bitumen BubbleCanadaCitiesEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & DivestmentHealth & SafetyLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Ex-Alberta Liberal Leader Declares Tax Revolt Over Deadbeat Fossils’ $173M Debt to Rural Municipalities
A former opposition politician in Alberta is calling for a tax revolt after Premier Jason Kenney sided with deadbeat fossils against the rural municipalities ... -
BuildingsCitiesDemand & EfficiencyDemographicsEnergy PoliticsHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationLegal & RegulatorySupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited States
Trump Policies Hand Poor, Non-White Areas the ‘Brunt’ of Climate Impacts
Critics are warning that the Trump administration’s proposed changes to the environmental review process for pipeline and highway megaprojects will hit poor and minority ... -
AustraliaCanadaCitiesDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National Governments
From Newfoundland Snowstorms to Australian Bushfires, Climate Means the ‘Exceptional Becoming Normalized’
From an epic snowstorm blanketing Newfoundland to devastating bushfires and flash floods in Australia, climate change is the common thread that is turning the ... -
Drive to 1.5Food SecurityHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatoryNational Plans & ResponsesSmall Island States
Countries Can’t Turn Back Climate Refugees Whose Lives Are at Risk, UN Committee Rules
Countries can no longer send climate refugees back to nations of origin where the climate crisis might threaten their lives, according to a ruling ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionForests & DeforestationHeat & TemperatureIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatoryOceans
Scientists Declare 2010s the Hottest Decade, 2019 the Second-Warmest Year on Record
NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have declared the 2010s the hottest 10 years on record, with 2019 the second-warmest ... -
AustraliaCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemographicsDrought, Famine & WildfiresFirst PeoplesHealth & Safety
All-Female, All-Indigenous Fire Brigade Defends Remote Settlement in Southeast Australia
With their community tinder-dry, and most of their menfolk disinclined to pitch in, it is the women of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust in ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaClimate Impacts & AdaptationCollateral DamageDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionHeat & TemperatureSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Canada, U.S. Report Rising Cost, Frequency of Climate-Fuelled Disasters
Canada and the United States are both beginning to count up the rising annual cost of climate-fuelled natural disasters, with Canada placing the tab ... -
AustraliaBiodiversity & HabitatCitiesClimate DenialCoalDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy PoliticsFailure Is Not An OptionHealth & Safety
24 Dead, Coal Seam Ignites as Terrified Evacuees Flee Australian Bushfires
Terrified Australians fled to the water from a beach where they had taken refuge from raging bushfires, authorities reported at least 24 people dead ... -
AsiaCitiesDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetyIce Loss & Sea Level RiseSevere Storms & Flooding
Record Flash Floods Kill 60, Displace 400,000 in Jakarta
Jakarta’s most intense flash floods since record-keeping began more than 20 years ago have killed at least 60 people and displaced more than 400,000. -
Arctic & AntarcticaCanadaClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresElectricity GridFood SecurityHeat & TemperatureIce Loss & Sea Level RiseOceansSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National Governments
‘Normal Weather Doesn’t Exist Anymore,’ Says Veteran CBC Climatologist Dave Phillips
From an overheating Arctic to a frigid B.C. Lower Mainland and Maritimes, from a parched (then drowning) Prairie region to an epically deluged Eastern ... -
Sea Level Rise Could Put Three Times More People at Risk World-Wide
Deploying a far more accurate method than has been used to date to predict future sea level rise, researchers say three times more people ... -
Venice Submerged by Second-Highest Tidal Floodwaters Ever
Eighteen months before Venice’s state-of-the-art flood barrier is scheduled to be complete and operational, the so-called “Floating City” is drowning, submerged this week under ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatClimate Action/"Blockadia"DemographicsEnergy Access & EquityEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationJobsLegal & RegulatoryMethaneOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsUnited StatesWater
Minority Communities Face Greatest Risk as Atlantic Coast Pipeline Pushes Into Rural America
Promising jobs and property tax revenue, owners of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are pushing ahead against grassroots resistance and expert testimony, both maintaining that ... -
U.S. Heat Waves Cause 25,000 More Premature Births Per Year
An estimated 25,000 babies per year were born prematurely in the United States over a 20-year span due to heat waves, according to a ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCitiesEnergy SubsidiesFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National Governments
Rural Municipalities Take the Hit as Alberta Cuts Taxes for Gas Producers
Alberta’s rural municipalities already straining to make up for deadbeat fossils’ unpaid property tax bills, will be expected to shell out C$20 million per ...
