pollution

A growing body of international research suggests pollution from wildfire smoke can produce cognitive deficits, post-traumatic stress and may even increase the risk of dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Analyzing marine sediment levels around Casey station between 1997 and 2015, Australian and Canadian scientists found that levels of multiple contaminants exceeded international quality guidelines.

Research shows that cutting carbon emissions offers more than an abstract, long-term, far-ranging result. It can actually save lives, almost immediately.

“Ontario’s provincial government has failed its general duty to provide a safe, stable, and healthy working environment for children and youth, their caregivers, the education system and all Ontario communities,” reads the statement from Ontario School Safety.

Fossil fuel advertising increases demand for the very products that are driving the climate crisis. 

In a world facing widespread water shortages, rising emissions and escalating inequity, becoming mindful about our fashion choices is seen as a moral imperative by more and more of us each year, says Marley Alles, who started a clothing rental company.

Fire has driven Marvin Herman’s family from their home in northwestern Saskatchewan twice in the last month.

Finally, perhaps more people will start talking about climate change, worrying about it, fearing it (as we should) and thinking about what to do about it, writes Linda Solomon Wood.

A new analysis is the most comprehensive look yet at the link between the neurological condition and exposure to PM2.5 — fine particles that are 2.5 microns wide or less released by wildfires, traffic, power plants, and other sources.

Eloor smells like it is dying. Once it was an island of rich farmland on the Periyar River, 17 kilometres from the Arabian Sea, teeming with fish. Now, a stench of putrid flesh permeates the air. Most of the fish are gone.

The federal government has committed $420 million over 10 years to protect the Great Lakes, which hold 84 per cent of North America’s surface freshwater and face a litany of threats.

Spoiler alert: Over the full life cycle of Canadian gasoline cars and electric cars, the 70 tonnes of CO2 from burning gasoline absolutely crushes everything else — including Canadian climate hopes. But other nations have found ways to rein in the beast.

Oil companies are asking the federal government to allow them to release the tailings into the Athabasca River, which flows north into one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world.

For more than a decade, a proposal to build a cement plant has hung over one rural Ontario village like a black cloud.

Ottawa has to stop letting local port authorities do the heavy lifting in preventing cruise ships from dumping billions of litres of corrosive wastewater along the B.C. coast, environmentalists say.