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Smoke rises from a coal power plant.

COP29: Canada needs to start a real conversation about international carbon markets

Mark Purdon, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

A group of people walk towards a building with a sign and logo for COP29

Climate inequality must take centre stage at COP29

Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University

A large building is seen through a gateway.

Recent Ontario appeal court ruling on youth-led climate case could be a constitutional ‘game-changer’

Stepan Wood, University of British Columbia

A small jellyfish swims close to a divers hand.

Seen a jellyfish off the dock? You’re not imagining things — they’re increasingly in our lakes

Beatrix Beisner, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

How honeybees can help us monitor pollution across Canada

Tony Robert Walker, Dalhousie University and Simon Harper, University of Manchester

A hive of bees crawl over honeycomb next to a human hand.
Commercial whaling and climate change are inhibiting evolutionary change in Arctic whales

Matt J. Thorstensen, University of Manitoba

A bowhead whale mother and calf in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
A vast tundra is pictured in the Canadian Arctic

The Canadian Arctic shows how understanding the effects of climate change requires long-term vision

James Schaefer, Trent University

New insights from Shakespeare’s England reveal striking parallels to contemporary climate change

Madeline Bassnett, Western University and Laurie Johnson, University of Southern Queensland

A river is seen at low tide as a boat sails past with buildings in the background.
To truly understand the health of a lake, you must look well beyond its shoreline

Beatrix Beisner, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

A lake and dock is seen with trees in the background.
a worker observes a burned out neighbourhood

Jasper’s wildfire recovery is challenged by its unique land classification and the approaching winter

Jack L. Rozdilsky, York University, Canada

Want to build healthier cities? Make room for bird and tree diversity

Rachel Buxton, Carleton University; Emma J. Hudgins, The University of Melbourne, and Stephanie Prince Ware, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

A couple walk thorugh a wooded path.
B.C. election: Party proposals on climate action point in opposite directions

Kathryn Harrison, University of British Columbia

A woman and two men, one well over six feet tall, smile as they pose for a photo.
Fall is here: Why do some trees lose their leaves while others stay green?

Charles Marty, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)

Forest of multi-colored trees
How the invasive spiny water flea spread across Canada, and what we can do about it

Sam Lucy Behle, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT); Beatrix Beisner, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and Guillaume Grosbois, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)

A small animal is seen through a microscope.
New survey of IPCC authors reveals doubt, and hope, that world will achieve climate targets

Seth Wynes, University of Waterloo and H. Damon Matthews, Concordia University

A man with a bicycle stands in the middle of a rainy deserted street.
Here’s how to remove some persistent pollutants from your drinking water at home

Sébastien Sauvé, Université de Montréal; Benoit Barbeau, Polytechnique Montréal, and Termeh Teymoorian, Université de Montréal

A water pitcher on a counter
The B.C. election could decide the future of the province’s species at risk laws

Courtney W. Mason, Thompson Rivers University and Jordyn Maria Bogetti, Thompson Rivers University

A tree stump is seen in a logging zone on a hillside.
Canada’s agricultural policies are falling short of health and sustainability goals

Kathleen Kevany, Dalhousie University; Howard Nye, University of Alberta; Mark Kent Mullinix, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and Talan B. Iscan, Dalhousie University

A combine harvest driving through a wheat field at sunset
a tree by a lake with four panels showing the four seasons

Seasonal change can affect people’s moods — and their moral values

Ian Hohm, University of British Columbia and Mark Schaller, University of British Columbia

Humanity’s future depends on our ability to live in harmony with nature

Liette Vasseur, Brock University; Anders Hayden, Dalhousie University, and Mike Jones, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Two people talk past the trunk of a large willow tree
How the ‘social cost of carbon’ measurement can hide economic inequalities and mask climate suffering

Majid Hashemi, Queen's University, Ontario

A man rides an elephant through a flooded street.
Is sustainable development possible? Only if we take a unified approach

Davide Elmo, University of British Columbia

An excavating maching digs into a face at a mine.
‘Carbon contracts for difference’ are not a silver bullet for climate action

Daniel Rosenbloom, Carleton University

A Canadian flag flies in the foreground in front of Parliament Hill.

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