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Two years after the Trudeau government promised to plant two billion trees, the only thing growing is criticism from the opposition

Destruction of forests is a major cause of both the climate crisis and plunging wildlife populations, as natural ecosystems are razed for farming.

A sobering new report says the world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.

More than a century of industrial old-growth logging has mowed down these forest giants that can live for thousands of years, putting the shared spiritual and cultural well-being of First Nations at risk.

The Canadian government says it will spend $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees over the next ten years.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's massive tree-planting promise from the 2019 election has yet to be allocated a single dime.

As a means to address climate change, it’s a complete cop-out.

Unsustainable use of resources is wrecking the planet but recycling is falling, report finds

Young climate activists including Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg told business and political elites gathered on Tuesday, January 21, 2020, at the World Economic Forum that they aren't doing enough to tackle the climate emergency and warned them that time was running out.

The federal government was told just before the fall election campaign that many Canadians didn't believe the country will meet targets for reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions.

A green economy think tank at the University of Ottawa says the federal government's promise to plant two billion trees over the next 10 years is a cheap way to pull greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

While Canada's federal leaders took to the election campaign trail at home, Canadian mayors took to the United Nations to listen, learn and promote best sustainable practices and nature-based solutions in cities.

Victoria is promising to plant 5,000 trees on public and private land by the end of 2020 as part of the United Nations Trees in Cities Challenge.

Two University of Victoria students died and more than a dozen other people were injured on Friday, September 13, 2019, after a bus on its way to a marine research centre rolled over on a narrow gravel road on Vancouver Island.

In an era when the intensity of hurricanes is expected to increase across Atlantic Canada, experts say major changes are needed to utility grids, shoreline defences and even the types of trees being planted.