Climate Change

Extreme weather events in Canada are reshaping operational planning. Here is how warnings work, where costs land, and what is not yet confirmed.

The Weather Network’s El Niño fall outlook projects a milder, drier September to November across Canada and a late start to consistent winter weather.

The oilsands impact assessment exemption passed by the Carney government removes in-situ projects and gas plants from federal review and hands pipelines to the CER.

Cape Breton flooding closed 54 roads, damaged eight bridges and left one woman dead after more than 200 mm of rain hit northeastern Nova Scotia.

U.S. solar generation rose 21 percent and wind generation rose 6 percent in the first half of 2026, according to the Energy Information Administration’s Short-Term Energy Outlook published August 11, 2026. Forecasters expect renewable capacity additions to continue through 2027, with the next monthly update due September 9, 2026.

Antarctic sea ice reaches critical lows as global ocean temperatures hit record highs in August 2026. Scientists have identified eight mechanisms driving polar ice loss, from ocean heat transport to atmospheric river intrusions.

Pacific island nations have launched a regional climate finance fund, with a first call for proposals opening next week, in a bid to move adaptation money directly to local communities and bypass slow multilateral approval processes.

A 76-square-kilometre ice island separated from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier on August 4, 2026. Satellite imagery captured the cracks widening beforehand, giving researchers an unusually detailed record of how a large Arctic calving event unfolds.

A two-year investigation reports that heat-related deaths in the United States are far higher than official mortality records show, pointing to gaps in how death certificates classify extreme heat and what that means for climate preparedness.