Sen. Bernie Moreno introduces bill to sanction Canada over wildfire smoke - but scientists say climate change is the real culprit

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno on Friday released text of legislation that would sanction Canadian government ...

Climate extremes fuel explosive wildfires in Canada and western U.S.

One climatologist said "a perfect storm" of climate extremes primed the western U.S. for one of its worst fire seasons in a ...
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It is getting harder to ignore: Climate change means more fires in the US and Canada

Drought, heat, and wildfires caused havoc this week. There are many in the U.S. who don't want to hear it, but the data is ...

Link between raging wildfires and climate change is greater than ever

Human-caused climate change is driving many of the wildfires burning across Canada. What's harder to say is how much worse the planet is because of warming global temperatures.
Canada's National Observer

Lyme disease is becoming one of Canada's defining climate-health challenges

As climate change expands the abundance, activity and the northern limits of pathogen-carrying ticks, the incidence of Lyme ...

The wishful thinking of ‘climate havens’: Canada’s wildfire smoke is debunking myths about the Midwest

Cities like Detroit and Duluth, Minnesota, were once thought to be safer from the impacts of climate change. Their air ...
Politifact

Small number of arsons don’t negate climate change’s effect on Canada’s wildfires

A Quebec man pleaded guilty to setting 14 forest fires in 2023, a record year for wildfires in Canada. The fires the man set, and the land that burned as a result, represent a fraction of the ...

Climate change leaves northern tree swallows more vulnerable those in the southern US

Tree swallows in the northern U.S. and Canada face the greatest risk from climate change despite responding to temperature ...
PBS

Canada says it can fight climate change and be major oil nation. Massive fires may force a reckoning

FORT MCMURRAY, Canada (AP) — During a May wildfire that scorched a vast swath of spruce and pine forest in northwestern Canada, Julia Cardinal lost a riverside cabin that was many things to her: ...
Climate Central

Analysis: Climate change drove Canada’s warm December

Real-time tools, visuals, and other resources to quantify the role of climate change in weather events. Alerts We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable ...
The Conversation

Canada’s federal election doesn’t seem like it’s about climate change, but it actually is

A defining feature of the ongoing federal election campaign has been the apparent marginalization of the environment and climate change as top-of-mind issues due to threats by the United States ...