At COP 15, the prime minister committed C$800m of funding over seven years to Indigenous-led conversation projects in Canada across an area the size of Egypt, starting a “story of reconciliation” with
Styrofoam currently occupies up to 30 percent of landfills and takes 500 years to decompose. I often wonder how scientists created new products and never considered its waste implications
25% of new housing built in Edmonton since 2010 are infill homes located in Edmonton’s core and mature areas, reaching a goal set by the city when it established its infill roadmap. This change has
Plastic pollution continues to negatively impact the health of wildlife and the environment worldwide. But, a University of British Columbia (UBC) researcher has developed an innovative solution that
An Indonesian tropical rainforest that was given a second chance to thrive offers lessons about regenerative sustainability and gives hope for other damaged rainforests worldwide. After being
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events according to last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. City-dwellers are particularly at
Launched in June 2022, a new and novel index reveals how well cities worldwide are engaging in sustainability and climate action. The Corporate Knights Sustainable Cities Index gave each of the fifty
A recent global assessment conducted by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) found that approximately 50,000 wild species support billions of
Human activity is changing the environment at an unprecedented rate, but can biodiversity evolve fast enough to survive? A recent study discovered that adaptive evolution has its limits. Researchers
A new community development is tapping into the power of wastewater to achieve a carbon-neutral heating system. The Zibi development is located along the Ottawa River and will eventually provide homes