Canada is warming faster than the rest of the world, a new report says
Polar bear stands on top of iceberg in Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba.
Warming is happening even faster in winter, leaving southern Canadians with more winter rainfall and northern Canadians with melting permafrost and less sea ice. More than 40 scientists worked on the report and say if nothing is done to reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions building in the atmosphere, Canadians will end up with 10 times as many deadly heat waves and twice as many extreme rainstorms.
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