While much of Western Canada, northern Ontario and Newfoundland burn this summer, there's a growing debate about whether climate change should be considered a national security issue and questions about why it hasn't already been looked at through that lens.

The U.N. General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice in 2023 for an advisory opinion, a non-binding but important basis for international obligations.

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For generations, glaciers in the St. Elias mountain range of Yukon and Alaska have shaped the lives of local First Nations people. Today, those glaciers are melting at rapid rates due to climate change and locals are worried about what will happen if they disappear.

Lightning strikes kill 320 million trees yearly worldwide. This causes significant carbon emissions, almost matching wildfires. The Amazon and Congo B

In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent veils of smoke and several billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, subjecting millions of people to poor air quality.

At last year’s U.N. climate conference, known as COP27, it also joined other rich nations to promise more money for developing countries to fight climate change.

For years, climate change activists have criticized the Canadian government as a global warming laggard. The Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has been in power since 2006, has never ...

Climate change’s role. Trudeau has linked Canada’s wildfires last year to climate change, writing in a June 7, 2023 X post, "We’re seeing more and more of these fires because of climate change."