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Canada needs an additional 3.5 million housing units to address its housing shortage. Governments and industry are learning how to do that without sacrificing the tree canopy that keeps streets cool, absorbs floodwater and cleans the air.

Environmental advocates caution that the Greenbelt, a vast protected region containing crucial natural areas and farmland, is still not fully safeguarded from the provincial government's construction plans.

Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk found the Ford government’s 2022 decision to open part of the protected Greenbelt for development was driven by political influence and privileged access.

Two swampy wetland areas nestled in the heart of the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve have become ground zero in the battle against Premier Doug Ford's plan to develop a chunk of Ontario's Greenbelt lands.

Serena Mendizabal, a Wolf Clan member of the Cayuga Nation in Six Nations, is ensuring any development on the area known as the Haldimand Tract, comprising six miles on each side of the Grand River, occurs only with the consent of chiefs and clan mothers.

Real estate prices have soared across Canada in recent years, and farmland is no different. From B.C. to the Maritimes, farmland near urban centres is being eyed by developers seeking to turn fields into suburban malls and cul-de-sacs.

Ontario Federation of Agriculture president Peggy Brekveld says urban development is putting enormous pressure on farmland, with 319 acres per day being swallowed up.

California won't be listing the iconic western Joshua tree as a threatened species for now after the four-member Fish and Game Commission couldn't reach agreement Thursday on how best to protect the plant from climate change.

Canada’s National Observer spoke to Greenberg about Ontario’s current “tall and sprawl” approach to housing development and what it takes to build affordable, climate-friendly, livable communities.

For staff at Red River College Polytechnic’s Prairie Research Kitchen, tofu made from fava beans is a new frontier in plant-based protein and the culmination of years of work.

Peel Region will expand its urban boundaries to accommodate expected population growth, bucking a trend of nearby municipalities that have defied the provincial government’s push for sprawl.

Condo highrises reaching skyward 80 storeys. Forty thousand new homes. Eighty-eight thousand more people. All in the space of about 45 hectares in Richmond Hill and Markham.

New research echoes long-standing Indigenous knowledge about the importance of carbon-storing peatlands.

The North French River watershed, nine hours north of Toronto, sits on the traditional territory of the Moose Cree First Nation, which for decades has been striving to protect the area from further development.

The City of Brampton will plant 8,000 trees over the next year to rehabilitate its urban tree canopy with help from the federal government.