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Electric cars make some people afraid of the dark. While the batteries produce much less carbon, they require much more electricity to run. This has prompted ominous warnings that Great Britain and other wealthy countries set on banning new petrol and diesel cars risk plunging their populations into darkness.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $30 billion fund representing the largest public transit investment in Canadian history. Advocates say it misses the mark almost entirely.

A trove of monthly odour complaints to a Metro Vancouver hotline reveal over 200 grievances were filed with the municipal government between August 2022 and November 2023. The documents obtained by Canada's National Observer through an access to information request show about 50 people filed complaints, with one person filing 53 between December 2022 and June 2023.

A coalition of environmental groups is urging Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier to strengthen those conditions under the new licensing agreements that will last until the end of this decade. 

As people in southern Ontario survey the damage done by intense flash flooding on Tuesday, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says residents need to figure out what their policies cover.

A new survey of business leaders finds the vast majority are concerned that climate change will hit their operations this year while more than half report that it's already affected profits.

As glaciers melt around the globe, scientists are racing to retrieve ice cores that contain key historical records of temperature and climate that are preserved in the ice. Researchers are also pushing to gather ancient relics locked in the ice before they are lost to warming

The federal government’s newly-released strategy to slash planet-warming emissions from Canada’s buildings commits to phasing out heating oil in new buildings.

Does the decision to lift Newfoundland’s cod moratorium adequately consider climate change?

“We really seriously have to deal with climate change, because these kinds of days are going to become a lot more frequent,” Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said.

Plastic shopping bags and other single-use products are no longer available at British Columbia stores as the government implements the latest step in its plan to phaseout certain plastic items and keep harmful chemicals out of landfills.

Live music pulses through the air as Henry Leung casts a lure into the murky waters of the Lachine Canal, at a site wedged between a noisy festival and the high-rises of Montreal's Griffintown neighbourhood.

Vernon Fire Chief David Lind likens the Interior B.C. city's new artificial-intelligence-driven wildfire detection system to a fire alarm in the forest.

The novelist explains why she wrote a pledge for the American Climate Corps.

The federal government is in the middle of a regulatory battle over the future of so-called “forever chemicals,” catching flak from environmentalists who say Ottawa is walking back plans that would protect the public.