Irena Creed, a Canadian biology professor and executive director of the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan, co-chaired a 19-member panel that compiled evidence showing how the health of the planet’s forests is intricately tied to the safeguarding of sustainable access to water.
By mid century, parts of Canada’s 270-million hectares of boreal forest that purifies water and air, regulates the climate and stores carbon will be at heightened risk of devastating fires like the one seen in Fort McMurray.
Empowered by fossil fuel–driven technology, a rapidly growing human population and an insatiable demand for constant growth, our species is responsible for the calamitous consequences.
Fast-moving wildfire.s in British Columbia are posing serious challenges for crews fighting to keep the flames from more than a dozen communities, officials said on Sunday.
A pristine section of forest that was once owned by a famous 19th century Quebec politician will become a conservation area, a nature group announced on Monday, June 5, 2017.
A panel in New York City on the importance of tropical forests in combatting climate change heard of the dangers Indigenous people face as they try and act as stewards of the land
First Nation warns that logging would worsen decades-old mercury contamination crisis on their land, applies for judicial review against both the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of th
