Benjamin Shingler

Meeting the EU’s proposed targets would require transitions across sectors, from energy to transportation. Here’s a closer look at what’s involved, and what it could mean for Canada and the world.

A landmark report highlights the challenges facing migratory species, and their importance in being saved from extinction.

In vacant lots, neglected parks and patches of land along busy stretches of road, residents are gathering to plant trees — lots of them, close together. Here’s a look at what’s behind the trend.

“A lot of people talk about fire season and the end of the fire season, but our fires did not stop burning in 2023,” said a wildfire crew chief in Fort Nelson, B.C. There are still 94 active fires in British Columbia and another 54 in Alberta, holdovers from last year’s record-breaking wildfires.

Canada’s largest pension funds, which hold trillions of dollars in assets combined, are trailing behind many of their international counterparts when it comes to shifting away from investments in fossil fuels, a new report has found.

Fire crews across much of Canada are already on high alert for the coming wildfire season, only months after the conclusion of the worst one on record. Researchers are taking stock of last year’s historic wildfires, and analyzing what can be done differently.

The head of Canada’s competition bureau, which regulates misleading marketing, wants the federal government to give him more power to tackle claims about the environmental commitments of corporations.

The months of December, January and February were the warmest on record in Canada, part of a pattern of unprecedented temperatures across the globe over the past year.

With the federal government under pressure to freeze its planned increase to the carbon tax, here’s a look at how the policy is supposed to work and to what extent it is effective.

A new report says the federal government is providing billions of dollars in financial support for the fossil fuel industry, despite measures announced last year to limit subsidies.

The federal government says Canada is at risk of another devastating wildfire season, after an unusually warm winter, widespread drought conditions and a forecast of above-normal temperatures in the months ahead.

A Quebec-based company is hoping to become a leader in direct air capture, where carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere. But questions remain about whether the technology is the best use of limited public funds and resources as the world seeks to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

A brutal, deadly stretch of heat in West Africa would not have been possible without human-caused climate change, a new report has found.

A new study has found that more than half of global branded plastic pollution can be traced back to just 56 companies, led by The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo.

A powerful rainstorm that wreaked havoc on the desert nation of the United Arab Emirates last week was likely made more intense because of climate change, a team of international scientists has found.

Negotiators from around the world wrapped up talks in Ottawa, far from a deal that would address the global scourge of plastic pollution.

Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2022, as the economy rebounded from the pandemic slowdown. But Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said the numbers are a sign his government’s climate policies are working, with emissions totals the lowest in 25 years aside from the pandemic years.

Families and small businesses in Canada are increasingly turning to crowdfunding for financial support as they struggle to recover from the damage wrought by floods, wildfires and storms, new data shows.

Shell sold millions of carbon credits for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that never happened, allowing the company to turn a profit on its fledgling carbon capture and storage project, according to a new report by Greenpeace Canada.

A geomagnetic storm could lead to colourful auroras overnight in southern Canada, the northern United States and parts of Europe. It could also cause some disruptions to communications over the weekend.