The urgency to act on climate is surging in Canada
Monica Gattinger and Nik Nanos: New data shows Canadians want to be ambitious about climate change. But public confidence in the ability to take action is weak.
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The lonely life of a wildfire lookout in northern Alberta
Canada’s wildfire lookouts live under constant threat that they will be replaced by technology. But they’ve never been more essential.
Have Guelph’s delightful ‘fairy doors’ become a forest plague?
While many love the miniature doors affixed to trees, the city was receiving an increase in complaints about how the doors are ruining the landscape in parks and natural areas
Using Tide to kill roof moss is a bad idea. Some B.C. condo owners learned that the hard way.
An estimated 100 kilograms of the detergent was sprinkled over some 120 rooftops. Soon after began what might be described as a suds-flood.
The 10,000-year-old ice that floats past St. John’s, N.L.
A photographer snapped this photo, titled Iceberg Alley, which features a lighthouse, an iceberg and an old military battery in Fort Amherst
Sophia Mathur is one of Canada’s most high-profile climate activists. She’s also 14.
The teenager has trained with Gore, marched with Greta and won a few battles on behalf of the planet
’Green technology’ is fine, but to really save the planet we need to shop less
J.B. MacKinnon’s new book makes the case for the world’s citizens to buy a ‘little less stuff’—or else
How do you build an iglu that stands 20 feet tall? Very carefully.
A master iglu builder shares the secrets of his craft after raising an outsized version of the iconic structure for a community celebration in Iqaluit
After a decade of cavities, will Calgary put fluoride back in its water supply?
Anti-fluoride activists are fighting again to keep the chemical out of Calgary’s water supply. But there are holes in their argument.
If you thought the cutting of B.C.’s ancient forests was winding down, you’d be wrong
Our editorial: Over the decade ending in 2018, an average of 15,200 hectares of old growth hit the ground annually in coastal forests alone. That’s an area per year the size of Vancouver.