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As the world uses more and more wood over the next few decades, the planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions associated with logging will rise, new research predicts. 

All three territories signed on to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's health funding offer on Thursday, July 6, 2023, leaving Quebec as the only holdout on the new accords.

RoseAnne Archibald has called for an independent investigation into potential government interference into the Assembly of First Nations a week after she was ousted as national chief.

A cold front passing through Ontario and Quebec is expected to offer relief today after a multi-day heat wave.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to meet with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith today in Calgary, among other stops in the city as Stampede season gets underway.

Earth's average temperature set a new unofficial record high on Thursday, July 6, 2023, the third such milestone in a week that already rated as the hottest on record.

As summer heat waves intensify and advocates sound the alarm on the lack of protections for the most vulnerable populations, one extreme weather expert is calling for access to cooling to be treated as a human right.

Regenerative farming methods in use on the small, B.C. island farm for decades to build soil, capture nutrients, and promote biodiversity are reaping rewards as the climate crisis advances.

In a poor neighborhood in the city of Cali, an enclave for survivors of Colombia’s 52-year armed conflict, the home of Nidia Landazury Sanclemente has become a refuge.

Amid a season of heat waves and wildfire smoke, a new curriculum is urging Manitoba teachers to normalize climate change conversations in classrooms and it provides tips on how to do just that in 2023-24.

Two First Nations near the proposed expansion of Canada’s largest nuclear power plant will not support any new projects until there is a solution to the nuclear waste problem on their territory, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation wrote in a letter to its membership obtained by Canada’s National Observer.

Every year, about 1.3 million metric tonnes of Canada’s peatlands are dug up for sale to farmers and gardeners. With every hectare lost, planet-warming carbon dioxide is released into the air.

A UN treaty to reduce plastic pollution could be a game changer for the environment. Activists who collect plastic for a living want to make sure it takes their jobs into account.

Negotiators at the meeting of the United Nations' International Maritime Organization in London, seen as key to limiting global warming to 1.5 C since pre-industrial times, are set to officially agree Friday for shipping emissions to reach net zero “by or around” 2050, rather than setting the date as a hard deadline.

Stellantis and LG Energy Solution announced on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, that their electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., is back on track after reaching a "binding" financing deal with the governments of Canada and Ontario.