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Some unlikely neighbours are moving in around the northernmost communities of the Northwest Territories, across the icy tundra of Canada's High Arctic.

Research has found Arctic soil has warmed to the point where it releases more carbon in winter than northern plants can absorb during the summer.

Canada's medical professionals are presenting a solid front during the federal election campaign to urge political parties to take climate change seriously as a public-health issue.

As a child growing up in Toronto, Dr. Melissa Lem was dubbed a tree hugger thanks to her passion for the environment. It's a label she fully embraces as a family physician pushing for political action when it comes to the link between health and climate change, a major issue during the federal election campaign.

A strike that would have closed hundreds of schools across Ontario was averted on Sunday, October 6, 2019, night as the province reached a tentative deal with the union representing thousands of education workers.

We went into the depths of the ocean with a scientist seeking to understand how frozen gas deposits might respond in a rapidly warming world.

Scientists have linked the increasing number and ferocity of wildfires to global heating, but you’d never know that if you depended on Canada’s corporate media.

When it comes to talking about how the northern Alberta oilsands have lost their lustre for foreign investors, Satoshi Abe sounds a lot like his Canadian counterparts.

The federal government is spending $15 million and offering up the use of Canadian water bombers to help fight the wildfires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, August 26, 2019, as he wrapped up several days of meetings with G7 world leaders in France.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived on Friday, August 23, 2019, for this weekend's long-awaited G7 summit in France, where he plans to try to shore up Canada's trade and economic interests in one-on-one meetings with several world leaders before the official gathering gets underway.

The blazes are roasting South America's biggest country just as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is rolling back environmental and indigenous protections.

Full-tilt chaos has descended on the Arctic, a region that’s now warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

Bigger, hotter wildfires are turning Canada's vast boreal forest into a significant new source of climate-changing greenhouse gases, scientists say.

Scientists have used recent B.C. fires to model the effects of nuclear war on climate.

Unprecedented smoke from British Columbia's wildfires in 2017 is helping scientists model the potential impacts of nuclear war on the Earth's climate, says a study from Rutgers University.