Nature

Jeanette Heffernan and her partner Katie Sherratt run Tipsy Willow, a sustainable farm in Indian River, Ont.

Crucial investments and actions are missing, the Preventing Pandemics at the Source coalition said, leaving the world playing an “ill-fated game of Russian roulette with pathogens.”

Nature Canada wants the two administrations to hone in on nature-based climate solution investments and the conservation of landscapes and seascapes, with a particular focus on Indigenous-led conservation.

Weaker sharks are less effective hunters, which can upset the balance of the ecosystem, say the authors of a study into the impacts of hotter oceans.

Matt Humphrey — an Anglican priest, writer and educator who lives, works and plays on Songhees territory in the Cecilia Creek watershed (Victoria, B.C.) — mixes faith with environmental stewardship.

In the race against rapid warming in the Arctic, 26-year-old Kirsten Reid hopes to help First Nations, settler governments and conservation groups identify species at risk and design conservation spaces and biodiversity corridors to protect fragile ecosystems.

Side-effects may include greater longevity, increased energy and improved pain management

Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world's poorest people are at risk.

Biodiversity chief calls for countries to unite to halt rapid degradation of nature

Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said on Monday, May 6, 2019, in the United Nations' first comprehensive report on biodiversity.

Canada’s current climate policies are "very insufficient" and would help increase global temperatures by a catastrophic 5 C by the end of the century, according to a new study that ranks the climate goals of countries around the world.

It's time to see with new eyes, David Suzuki writes.

Because good things come in small packages.

Writing in the science journal Nature this week, researchers say Alberta's oilsands are one of the biggest sources of air pollution in North America, on par with cities such as Paris and Mexico City.