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Prices for major commodity foods rose from June to July, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s latest Food Price Index, while Oxford Economics reports food price inflation due to extreme weather in Europe and the United Kingdom.

Climate change's fingerprints are all over the extreme fire weather that sparked the past week's devastating wildfires in Spain and France and has spiked Southern Europe's burning over the past eight years, two new studies conclude.

A strengthening El Niño that has already broken records for intensity at its early stages will likely spark even more wild weather worldwide as it grows, “adding fuel to a planet already on fire,” United Nations officials warned Friday.

While major emitting countries say they can't be held accountable for climate harm that predates their awareness of the risks, a new report from the U.S. Center for International Environmental Law shows their governments knew decades earlier than they're now claiming.

One year after the world's highest court ruled that countries have a legal duty to fight climate change, Canada's federal and provincial governments are expanding fossil fuels anyway, a move that could leave them legally exposed.

Vertical solar panels, which promise to overcome the winter troubles plaguing their more horizontal relatives, are being trialed on a Vancouver science museum’s rooftop.

Five breakthrough battery technologies are bringing long-term storage to market.

Solar installations across Africa hit a record last year, but international lenders are charging African countries far more for capital than borrowers elsewhere—a gap that could stifle the continent's clean energy growth.

China brought the world's first large scale “flow” battery project online earlier this year, and developers in Europe are racing to build even bigger ones—signs that the energy storage battery technology is showing real-world promise.

Supply concentration, especially in refining, as well as proliferating export controls, declining investment, and supply chain and work force bottlenecks are putting critical mineral security at risk for most countries, the International Energy Agency warns in its latest annual Global Critical Minerals Outlook.

Global oil demand and natural gas trading are both set to decline this year, international analysts say, less than two weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged to triple Canada’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and Energy Minister Tim Hodgson declared a $43.7-billion oil pipeline a “good investment” for taxpayers.

Renewable energy helped to avoid an estimated US$480 billion globally in fossil fuel costs in 2025, finds a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), while avoiding 8.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

As the Greenhouse Gas Protocol reviews feedback on proposed amendments to its flagship Scope 2 emissions guidance, the Business Renewables Centre-Canada is warning that abrupt implementation in Canada, where corporate procurement of renewable energy already struggles against infrastructure and regulatory gaps, could stall the very momentum the amendments are meant...

Spanning 110 quadrillion kilometers, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are critical allies of plants. They also transport an enormous amount of planet-warming carbon.

Nearly three dozen countries pledged to pick up the pace on energy efficiency improvements last week, during an International Energy Agency (IEA) conference in Montreal where much of the top-line messaging was about energy security through oil and gas exports—and Canada as a preferred supplier.