Climate Solutions Reporting

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Indigenous communities in Ontario are saving wild rice — or manoomin — by growing it in clay soil to fight climate change.

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.

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.

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.

Carbon cycling, which explores how carbon moves in and out of our atmosphere, has been a longtime fascination for Memorial University’s Kristy Ferraro and a wider network of scientists who seek to better understand and harness the way animals interact with carbon as a nature-based climate solution.

Canada needs more people working in clean-tech trades, and a new solar installation course aims to make it as easy as possible to break into this line of work.

Danielle Smith's agitations and the insatiable fossil fuel industry's demands will make climate action difficult, but Canada's new prime minister brings the right qualifications — and will have plenty of help in the House.

A new U.N. report maps a path toward a more sustainable future and challenges society to question basic assumptions and values about the environment, consumption and waste.