Air Quality

Land meets sea at Uruma City, Japan/Ryo Yoshitake ©

Living the best of both worlds

Nov 21 2018 | IN Resilience | BY Hai Lin Wang

Can conservation and human prosperity really co-exist?

Smoke rising over German factories. (Foto-Rabe/Pixabay)

Fewer air pollution deaths? Thank a regulation.

Oct 27 2018 | IN Regulation | BY Braydon Black

Recent research from UNC-Chapel Hill suggests air quality improvements since the 1990s have cut the number of deaths related to air pollution in half.

BEF-China's experimental site/Photo by UZH

Quality, not quantity of trees dictates how well forests store carbon

Oct 16 2018 | IN Scientists | BY Hai Lin Wang

Does species richness impact how effectively a forest can absorb excess carbon? A three-country, eight-year study (finally) has answers.

Smoke blocks out the sun above a wildfire blaze in Colorado/DVIDSHUB CC BY

Policies on petroleum and pipelines move us closer to a ‘Hothouse Canada’

Aug 23 2018 | IN Pipelines | BY Simon Dalby

Propping up the old economy can only lead to 'Hothouse Earth'. But it's not a foregone conclusion.

Smoke covers Hwy 1 near Kamloops/Photo by Tonyglen14 CC BY 2.0

How to protect your children from wildfire smoke

Aug 15 2018 | IN Health | BY Cecilia Sierra-Heredia

As BC declares a state of emergency over spreading wildfires, one Simon Fraser researcher weighs in with suggestions for keeping kids safe from smoke inhalation.

Forest fires rage in northern Alberta in 2009/Cameron Strandberg CC BY-2.0

Fighting historic wildfires amid bad ideas and no funding

Aug 09 2018 | IN Forestry | BY Edward Struzik

Uncontrolled fires are burning across North America. To get ahead of them, fire fighters and need modern tools. And government cash.

MNRF water bomber on a sortie over northern Ontario. (Ryan McGilchrist) CC BY-SA

Forest fires rage southwest of Temagami

Jul 12 2018 | IN Parks | BY Andrew Reeves

Lightning strikes have caused dozens of forest fires across the province in recent weeks, tens of thousands of hectares in size.

Poo to Power – An Effective Solution in the Developing World

May 14 2018 | IN Waste | BY Fahad Tariq

Forever Young

Apr 23 2018 | IN Pollution | BY Shahan Engineer

Despite being over thirty years old, the message of this episode resonates with me quite a bit as a young adult in the 21st century

Ontario MPP Peter Tabuns (NDP) tables climate damages legislation

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Andrew Reeves

Fossil fuel producers must be held accountable to pay for the climate change-related damages suffered by communities in Ontario, says NDP MPP Peter Tabuns. And he has a bill to make it happen.

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