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San Francisco is at the forefront of a movement to recycle wastewater from commercial buildings, homes, and neighbourhoods and use it for toilets and landscaping. This decentralized approach, proponents say, will drive down demand in an era of increasing water scarcity.

FedEx Express Canada is going electric. The delivery company has added 50 all-electric BrightDrop Zevo 600 vehicles to its fleet — 40 in Toronto, five in Montreal and five in Vancouver. 

CPPIB-owned Civitas Resources’ massive increase in oil production comes just three months after the pension board’s acquisition of a 49 per cent stake in Aera Energy, California’s second-largest oil and gas producer.

“The economic disruption and costs associated with already existing climate change is something that we don't often think about enough," says Marc Lee, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

The wildfire in Mistissini, Que., was about 10 kilometres from the road to southern Quebec — and about 30 kilometres from the town itself, Chief Michael Petawabno said in an interview. Mistissini is the second largest Cree community in the province, home to around 4,000 people.

Faced with mounting anger from residents whose homes were repeatedly rattled by the shallow tremors, the government had already wound down extraction from the field which held 2,800 billion cubic meters of gas.

A federal bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms has become law.

A northern Quebec city and a Cree community have ordered to residents to leave their homes as the areas face the threat of forest fires.

Eighteen-year-old Hunter Sousa from Maine celebrated his high school graduation by hopping in a truck and heading to Nova Scotia to fight the biggest forest fire in the province's history.

After all the talking, time for tangible solutions?

Efficiency Canada just released a paper that digs into that inequity and makes policy suggestions on how Canada could lead the way by marrying rental protections with energy-efficiency programs.

Subsidizing fossil fuels while committing to slash greenhouse gas emissions is like trying to push a boulder both up and down a mountain at the same time, so why can't Canada get a plan in place?

Vancouver chef Angus An agrees with U.S. superstar chef J. Kenji López-Alt that induction stoves work well and reduce their kitchens’ greenhouse gas emissions

At the University of Copenhagen, researchers store ice cores that hold the keys to our planet’s climate past and future.

White Pine Lodge Algonquin is an Indigenous-led nature reserve far enough from Toronto that not having electric vehicle charging stations might mean losing city clientele.