sustainability

Forget lions, tigers and bears: For Claire Kremen, winner of the 2020 Volvo Environment Prize, conserving insects is more important.

It’s time for TransLink and Metro Vancouver to connect city residents to nature through public transit, writes Charlotte Liu.

Canadian agribusinesses are asking for a standardized scale to measure their environmental impacts — a request some advocates worry is little more than smoke and mirrors.

The provincial government holds the extension as a key to economic recovery and sustainability

One of European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen's first acts in office was to task her second-in-command with leading the continent on a path to climate neutrality by 2050.

A Swedish teenager goes from country to country in Europe, aiming salvos of scientific truth about climate crisis  at the world’s recalcitrant political and corporate leaders, most of whom are working very hard to pretend that there is no global climate crisis.

The new CEO of Barrick Gold Corp, who came over in its takeover of West Africa-focused Rangold Resources completed earlier this year, faced protest outside and a pointed question inside about the Canadian mining giant's role in the world. Mark Bristow has big shoes to fill at the Canadian mining giant's head office.

Export Development Canada's newest partner is a Quebec-born company that uses microwaves to zap plastic into a reusable liquid compound.

Animal welfare advocates aren't too pleased with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's new proposal for the regulation of animal handling and slaughter. It's still legal, for example, not to feed or hydrate a crated animal for 23 hours after it has been transported.

Alberta — home to one-third of Canada’s agricultural land — could put a big dent in its carbon footprint by transitioning to organic agriculture, writes Tracy Misiewicz.

Despite progress in stabilizing the stratospheric ozone layer, all the other problems scientists looked at in 1992 have worsened.

Some climate deniers claim carbon dioxide is good for plants, and plants are good for people, so we should aim to pump even more CO2 into the atmosphere than we already are.

A Montreal-based startup wants to tackle food insecurity in the north with aquaponic farms that could produce food all year long.

Netflix's newly-released film, Okja, is far from a cry for vegetarianism. But you still won't want to eat bacon after watching it, writes reviewer Katie Kalmusky.