Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job working on sustainability with the company when she realized that like most tech companies, it is helping fossil fuel companies extract more oil and gas.

Wildfires have burned about seven per cent of Canada's forests — roughly 27.3 million hectares — since 2023, and the country’s tree nurseries are wondering how they can possibly keep up.

A Canadian economist and conservative columnist who recently called Prime Minister Mark Carney a "climate zealot" played a critical role in the Trump administration's push to eradicate US climate rules.

Canada's federal database for tracking the toxic chemicals companies and some government facilities dump into the environment is "really very misleading," researchers say. 

In January 2024, a brutal cold snap hit the Okanagan Valley after weeks of unseasonably warm weather. The extreme weather devastated the valley's vineyards, wiping out close to 98 per cent of the grape harvest. Winemakers raced to adapt, sourcing grapes from the US and Ontario while figuring out how to adapt for the long term.

Fear and anxiety is settling over Canadian universities as the Trump administration attacks research into everything from climate change to pandemics — and as US funding dries up, scholars worry the effect could redouble if the same thing happened here. 

Over 350,000 chemicals, chemical mixtures and plastics used in common products like winter gloves, toys and electronics are contributing to soaring rates of diseases like diabetes and cancer in kids, as well as conditions like autism and ADHD, a consortium of prominent doctors and researchers have warned.

Canada's pesticide regulator has dismissed one of two formal complaints arguing the government agency wrongly approved a neonicotinoid pesticide.

Capping greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's cows, pigs, chickens and other farm animals, while bolstering support for plant-based food, could help the country reach its climate goals, a new analysis has found. But experts question whether the approach would encourage factory farming, infuriate farmers and further annoy a cash-strapped public.

In Eastern Canada, the ravages of climate change was by far the top concern in the poll conducted by Farmers for Climate Solutions, followed by the rising cost of fertilizers and seeds, and government policy. But in the western provinces, climate change itself wasn't the main concern: government policies designed to deal with the crisis were.