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Two companies, Real Ice and Skyward Wildfire, say their geoengineering tech can help mitigate climate change. Does it work? Are there unforeseen risks?
Environment and Climate Change Canada officials admit accurately estimating methane emissions from oil and gas operations is a “challenge,” but they point to upcoming regulations meant to crack down ...
Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous-led conservation are both crucial to Canada’s future. We explain in our latest ...
Last spring, Aamjiwnaang First Nation hit a breaking point. For weeks, enormous amounts of benzene had been leaking from a plastics plant across the road from the southwestern Ontario community’s band ...
Watch Trouble in the Headwaters, a short documentary about the hidden impacts of clear-cut logging and its connection to B.C.
This story is part of Habitat, a series from The Narwhal which looks at how communities are working to address the housing and climate change crises simultaneously The day Margaret Wanyoike moved her ...
The British Columbia government gave a green light to an 800-kilometre natural gas pipeline on Thursday, paving the way for construction to start — and setting the stage for what one First Nations ...
As wildfires increase in size and intensity, British Columbians are grappling with what it means for their communities. Photo: Jesse Winter / The Narwhal BC Wildfire Service uses compassion to dispel ...
Just over a month after almost one million Ontarians lost power in the midst of a destructive ice storm, the province is proposing to cut the meagre budget of emergency preparedness and response from ...
But while blaming the industry’s fortunes squarely on Ottawa, and pushing the narrative of a shared enemy might be good for amping up vitriol, the strategy does little to help her lead the province ...
The Ontario government is repealing the Endangered Species Act, making it easier to build mines and infrastructure projects like Highway 413. On April 17, the eve of the Easter long weekend, the Doug ...
Researchers Cori Lausen and Maleen Mund step out of the warm spring sun and into a dimly lit workshop. The only light streams in through the doorway behind them and a few dusty windows. It’s been a ...