Canada wants to move towards a green economy and meet its Paris Agreement targets, but it has also just taken ownership of a pipeline. How can the federal government deal with this paradox?
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Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of the seaweed that offers a solution for the global plastic crisis.
David Suzuki may be best known as an environmental activist and the face of CBC’s ‘The Nature of Things,’ but he’s also a globally recognized scientist.
Littering in protest is indicative of a discordant society, and a culture of littering can tell us a lot about a society’s ethos.
Essays on Air: how archaeology helped save the Franklin River
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The battle to save the Franklin River - an exhilarating story of politics, cultural heritage and passionate environmentalism - captivated the nation in 1983.
The biggest ethical challenges for self-driving cars arise in mundane situations, not when crashes are unavoidable.
Artificial islands that are now mushrooming across the ocean are regarded as ‘engineering marvels’. But, little attention is paid to how these human-made structures affect sea life.
Science advisers can make important contributions to environmental policy and decision making by government. But we should expect even more.
Farmer-led development work can improve people’s lives, provide access to food and water - and re-connect them to nature.
Cape Town is testing new strategies to nudge domestic users into reducing their water use.
The Franklin River campaign is commonly seen as a green victory; a fight for the right of ‘wilderness’ to exist. But archaeological research revealing the region’s deep Aboriginal history was crucial to it.
Should Australia join the majority of the world and provide legal recognition of the human right to a healthy environment?
If you want to live like a local when on holiday, you should defecate like one.
GDP has many flaws. We need a better way to measure economic progress.
In the future, Europe will suffer from more heat waves as well as extreme rainfall, presenting new challenges for planners and health care services. Building resilient cities can help.
If you communicate carefully, big retailers will listen.
A new paper describes the idea of “genetic nurture”, where parents’ genes, even those not passed on to their child, have major effects on kids’ health and educational attainment.
Parents only want the best for their children, but caring for the environment doesn’t happen overnight.
Research shows how water pumped from coal mines could revolutionise how we heat homes.
Why some corporations are quick to respond to criticism, and others hide away.
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