Planting trees is a popular way for companies to clean up their image. Unfortunately, it may cause more problems than it solves.
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A disc-golf boom is coinciding with a ball-golf bust.
All too often the media buzz is centred around the managed honeybee, at the expense of other wild bee species.
The cruel link between economics and animal welfare.
A lesser known aspect of bogs is their remarkable potential to preserve both environmental and archaeological records.
The late Sen. John McCain was an early – and lonely – Republican supporter of action to fight climate change. His challenge was to regulate sources of energy that underlie much of our economy.
Uncontrolled growth at the expense of the environment will severely exacerbate the impacts of climate change. As shown with tragic floods in India, our cities are not prepared for extreme events.
Two business professors spent five years studying Walmart's ambition project to bring sustainability to its millions of budget-conscious customers – a plan that began with the birth of a granddaughter.
Plastic bags are commonly mistaken for food by sea animals. They require a lot of energy and resources to be made, and have caused floods in some countries.
Tech fixes to environmental problems are guaranteed to grab attention, but real change for the planet requires community organising.
South African soldiers reported that environmental education and training programmes instilled environmentally friendly behaviour in them.
The work honey bees do is critical for our ecosystems, but it comes at a high personal cost.
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?
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.
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