Green rooftops are sprouting up across Canada, sowing the seeds of climate benefits that range from heat moderation in concrete jungles to vegetables served fresh from the roof.

Unmanned snowplows beeping along sidewalks may seem ahead of our times, but some communities are already welcoming these zero-emission robots onto their streets.

The Nova Scotia government’s growing support for lithium exploration has boosted mining investigation this year, but the pursuit of this critical mineral for the clean energy transition faces a struggling market, lengthy approval processes and calls for lithium-ion battery recycling.

In recent years, the lore of the urban coywolf has filled southern Ontario media reports everywhere from Hamilton to St. Catharines to Kingston. The idea of a more muscular, predacious coyote wandering the streets is understandably transfixing — and terrifying.

Northern and Alberta communities are harnessing energy efficiency upgrades—from biomass boilers to heat-recovery systems to solar panels—that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower energy costs, and build local expertise in low-carbon technologies.

Just off Nova Scotia’s Highway 14, in the forests near Card Lake, a 40,000-square-foot facility is “reinventing” tens of thousands of tonnes of waste to be used again as plastics, fuels, and fertilizers, instead of being landfilled.

Atlantic Canadian farmers are making moves to foster and embrace a more environmentally sustainable future, as they also face the reality of farming in a changing climate.

While trees are often seen as the poster child for natural carbon capture, a researcher has set out across Newfoundland to compare the ways other areas of nature contribute to this system – specifically, how large animals store carbon and cycle both carbon and nutrients through our ecosystems.

Christmas decorations, footwear, fridge parts, takeout container lids and urinal mats – those are just some of the products that washed ashore for months after the MV Zim Kingston spill off the west coast of Vancouver Island on Oct. 21, 2021.

Just after 10:00 a.m. on January 6, 2023, in the Southern Ocean some 1,100 kilometers south of Argentina, Matthew Mulrennan’s underwater camera captured a one-of-a-kind sighting: there, 176 meters beneath his vessel, a lone squid was propelling itself through the frigid water.

For the past six years, Gordon Propp, who builds sets for British Columbia’s film industry, has kept a close watch over 13 peregrine falcon nests in and around Vancouver, including ten on city bridges. A self-described wildlife enthusiast and citizen scientist, Propp has had a lifelong fascination with these raptors.