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Climate Solutions Reporting

The Climate Solutions Reporting Project is a powerful educational force designed to reshape how we understand our response to the climate crisis. This public education initiative doesn't just report on climate change — it teaches through story, illuminating the extraordinary human ingenuity rising to meet our greatest challenge.   Read more about the project here.  

617 Articles

Nain microgrid project lays the foundation for Labrador to get off diesel

This month, the Newfoundland and Labrador government put forward $3 million for the microgrid project, a much-needed boost that will help the project reach completion.
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  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
July 2nd 2025

Canadian hospitals switching out anesthetic gas for cleaner alternative

At Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, the decision to stop using the common anesthetic gas desflurane during surgeries made a big difference. The hospital reduced carbon emissions from anesthetic gases by more than 90 per cent — going from 860 tonnes of CO2 per year to just 80.
By
  • Abdul Matin Sarfraz
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
  • Ottawa Insider
June 30th 2025

Clothes with colours that marry science, nature and design

Roya Aghighi partners with microbes and other living organisms to design and manufacture colours. This 34-year-old from Vancouver co-founded  Lite-1 to harness the power of microorganisms to transform organic waste into sustainable, eco-friendly colourants at scale. It won the 2025 Web Summit Vancouver's PITCH competition for early stage start-ups.
Opinion
  • Profile photo of Patricia Lane
By
  • Patricia Lane
  • Roya Aghighi
  • Opinion
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 30th 2025

Are there geothermal greenhouses in Labrador's future?

Geothermal can provide year-round, carbon free heat for greenhouses. The communities of Port Hope Simpson, Cartwright and Black Tickle are hoping government-funded studies show they have the needed heat.
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 23rd 2025

A new campaign fights for zero waste at FIFA World Cup 2026

With the FIFA World Cup taking place in less than a year, host cities Vancouver and Toronto are working hard to accommodate both the incoming national teams and their fans with new infrastructure. But a conservation group hopes to convince the hosts to consider the tournament’s enormous waste footprint, too. 
By
  • Max Whiteman
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 20th 2025

Scouts plant trees to help conserve Canada's future

Kaelem Moniz is helping young people see the forest and plant trees. As special advisor to Scouts Canada’s national leadership team, this 20-year-old University of Toronto student donates his time to growing the scouting movement in Canada.
Opinion
  • Profile photo of Patricia Lane
By
  • Patricia Lane
  • Kaelem Moniz
  • Opinion
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 16th 2025

'Super-cool' birds of prey make valuable contributions

Ginger Boehme-Vertefeuille invites us to get close to raptors. This 19-year-old from Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, spends her summers educating visitors at Vancouver Island’s The Raptors. 
Opinion
  • Profile photo of Patricia Lane
Youth climate action
By
  • Patricia Lane
  • Ginger Boehme-Vertefeuille
  • Opinion
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 9th 2025

Newfoundland and Labrador's big offshore gas bet clashes with climate reality

Last week, the province announced findings from its natural gas resource assessment, which looked at the recoverable volume of natural gas from previously discovered deposits in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin, about 340 kilometres off the coast.
Off the deep end
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 9th 2025

Atlantic premiers pitch Carney a national energy corridor

The project, which is far from the first time the provinces have discussed a mega energy connection project, has an initial price tag of $8 billion.
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 4th 2025

Ford government moves to override cities on green building standards

The Ford government is rushing to pass legislation that would strip cities of one of their most effective tools to confront climate threats: green building standards.
By
  • Abdul Matin Sarfraz
  • Analysis
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
  • Ottawa Insider
June 3rd 2025

Why butterflies and bees are buzzing back to Vancouver parks

The wild growth of long grasses in some parks across Vancouver isn’t by accident. Well, not entirely by accident. What started as a pandemic-era measure to protect staff has transformed park policy and expanded the parks’ ability to support wildlife along the way — and all it takes is leaving some areas alone. 
By
  • Julia Stratton
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
May 30th 2025

The race to adapt ancient wild rice practices in a changing environment

Indigenous communities in Ontario are saving wild rice — or manoomin — by growing it in clay soil to fight climate change.
Farming for the future
By
  • Sonal Gupta
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
  • Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
May 22nd 2025

Going with the flow creates renewable energy

Could the water flowing from your tap also power the creation of electricity? In a word, yes. For the past ten years, Halifax Water in Nova Scotia has been doing just that by creating clean, renewable energy via an in-line turbine added to its water system infrastructure.
By
  • Elizabeth Peirce
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
May 21st 2025

What a Zen master, a grieving elder, and a carbon bomb taught me about climate journalism

From a weeping elder at a tailings pond to a quiet moment with Thich Nhat Hanh, journalist Linda Solomon Wood reflects on the stories that shaped her—and why, in an era of censorship and disconnection, human experience still breaks through when climate language fails.
Opinion
  • Profile photo of Linda Solomon Wood
By
  • Linda Solomon Wood
  • Opinion
  • Energy
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
May 19th 2025

Families promote child-friendly bicycle commuting

Having a family can be all-consuming. From diapers and food, to toys, clothing and extracurriculars, families consume a lot of stuff. It can be hard to cut back on all that consumption, but in response to this, some families in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, are re-thinking how they get from point A to point B to lessen their environmental impact.
By
  • Mary-Frances Lynch
  • News
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
May 16th 2025

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