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Globe Climate: Studying the start of the solar system may teach us about Earth’s future
The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range in Dugway, Utah, U.S. September 24, 2023. NASA/Keegan Barber/Handout via REUTERS
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Globe Climate: To prevent food insecurity, we should look to the ancient past
King Arcesilaus of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937,after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C. (Wellcome Collection)
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Globe Climate: Going to court to combat climate change
People wait to enter a courthouse for a climate change trial in Helena, Mont., June 12, 2023. A group of youths has sued government leaders, accusing them of embracing fossil fuels in ways that are destroying the environment and robbing the futures of the state’s young residents. (Janie Osborne/The New York Times)
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Globe Climate: Even deep-sea species are feeling the heat of climate change
Baby plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus) fish still attached to their yolk sacs in a nest in the intertidal zone. Vanvouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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Globe Climate: Western Canada’s unrelenting wildfires showing signs of reprieve but tough days remain ahead
Smoke billows along the highway near Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada August 17, 2023. REUTERS/Pat Kane
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Globe Climate: Why is Alberta putting a pause on renewables?
Ardenville, AB, (2022-10-04) Wind turbines at sunset near the Transalta McBride Lake wind farm project near Ardenville, Alberta on October 4, 2022. In recent years, millions of dollars in investment in renewable energy projects have been injected into the southern Alberta economy, mainly along Highway 3 between Medicine Hat and the Rockies. Previously known for its favorable agricultural weather and its oil and gas potential, the region is now seen as the next green energy hot spot. Guillaume Nolet/ The Globe and Mail
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Globe Climate: Can Tuvalu be saved for future generations?
The foundation of a gun emplacement from the Second World War is seen sitting in the water off the northern tip of the Tuvaluan island of Funafuti. When it was built, the foundation and its gun sat on dry land that has since been eroded by rising sea levels. Less than 5 meters above sea level at its highest point, the tiny South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is one of several that faces an existential threat from sea level rise driven by climate change.
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Globe Climate: Cowboys confront the threat of climate change
Jaxon Griffith, left and Cohen Earnest watch the cattle take a rest during a cattle drive in Mitchell, Ore. on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Amanda Lucier/The Globe and Mail
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Globe Climate: This lake shows when humans started changing the planet
Crawford Lake is photographed by a drone on June 29, 2023. The small lake is part of the Crawford Lake Conservation Area near Campbellville, Ont.. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
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Globe Climate: Is Canada’s waste management system trash?
City of Toronto employees sift through recyclable material as it zooms by on a conveyer belt at the Dufferin Waste Management facility in Toronto on Thursday, March 12, 2009. The worst trash offenders in Ontario are generating the weight of a compact car - per person - in waste a year and some of the province's smallest communities are posting the lowest recycling rates, the latest data analyzed by The Canadian Press shows. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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Earth hit an unofficial record high temperature this week – and stayed there
The San Antonio Fire spreads uphill west of Petaluma, Ca., Friday, June 30, 2023. The entire planet sweltered for the two unofficial hottest days in human recordkeeping Monday and Tuesday, according to University of Maine scientists at the Climate Reanalyzer project. The unofficial heat records come after months of unusually hot conditions due to climate change and a strong El Nino event. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP)
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Globe Climate: Drone shows are the new fireworks
One of North Star Firework Entertainmen'ts test drone productions at First Image Gila River Resort in Pheonix,Arizona. handout/North Star Fireworks Entertainment Inc; logo:Gila
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Globe Climate: Canada’s music industry is changing its tune
Brighid Fry of the Toronto band Housewife poses for a photograph in Toronto, on Saturday June 17, 2023. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Globe Climate: Meet the Coast Salish woman protecting the North Pacific’s orca whales
Kayah George is one of the young matriarchs of the Tsleil- Waututh, “People of the Inlet” who are strongly connected to the Pacific Ocean and the southern resident orcas. Their lands are on what is commonly known as Vancouver. Oct 14th, 2022
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Globe Climate: The dangers of breathing wildfire smoke
A person wearing a face masks walks down a street as wildfire smoke engulfs the region in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. According to Environment Canada smoke plumes from forest fires in Quebec and northeastern Ontario have resulted in deteriorated air quality. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Globe Climate: The Indigenous community fighting fire with fire
B.C. Wildfire Service firefighter Maria Milner uses a drip torch during a prescribed wildfire burn to reduce dangerous fuel loads at the airport in Cranbrook, B.C. on April 26, 2023
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Globe Climate: How climate change is fuelling a new kind of ‘fire weather’
FILE PHOTO: Leslie Kramer walk her dogs as some 90 wildfires are active in Alberta, with 23 out of control, according to the provincial government, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada May 16, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Hennel/File Photo
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Globe Climate: Wildfires are another climate change wake-up call
Smoke rises from the Paskwa Wildfire (HLW030) as it burns near the Wood Buffalo National Park boundary outside Fox Lake, Alberta, Canada May 14, 2023. Alberta Wildfire/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Globe Climate: Environmental education with a cosmic twist
Juna Kollmeier, the director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics is photographed in Toronto on April 19, 2023. JENNIFER ROBERTS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL