Jet fuel is bad for the environment. Contrails are even worse.
Airplanes constantly emit the trails every time they fly, blasting pollutants into the atmosphere. The industry behind them doesn’t know how to fix it.
Environment
Why these artists are leaving ghostly sculptures at the bottom of the ocean
Artists are populating seabeds with sculptures that attract divers while also asking whether they should really be there
On energy and climate, politics is the problem
Nik Nanos and Brendan Frank: Climate disasters are piling up, and the public discourse around climate is getting more ambitious
The Indigenous grandmothers who stopped a pipeline
Plans to flush out salt caverns for gas storage hit a wall of Mi’kmaq grandmothers
Formula E—the all-electric circuit race—is back and quiet as ever
The first Vancouver E-Prix will take place in False Creek over Canada Day weekend 2022
Whitehorse’s historic Martha Black Mayday tree is dying—but its seedlings may help it live on
Hundreds of seedlings from one doomed tree will sprout this year around Whitehorse, keeping the iconic plant’s legacy alive
Lemmings’ mysterious population cycle may finally have an explanation
The ’Arctic chicken nuggets’ have strange boom-and-bust cycles, which led to the story that lemmings commit mass suicide when they become too numerous. That’s false. These scientists may have the real answer.
Eight charts to watch on climate and energy in 2022
Chart Week 2022: Electric car sales are supercharged, climate change is scorching crop production, and women are underrepresented in Alberta’s energy sector
How recycling food could help save the planet
Upcycled edible waste—Transformation Tomato Sauce, anyone?—is here to help clean up the planet
B.C.’s ’southern resident’ orcas have been wandering far from home. Could this be the end?
The orca family known as J pod have been swimming far away from their Salish Sea digs. Will they return in 2022?