Climate & Environment

A heat wave is set to deliver another day of punishing heat and humidity to parts of Ontario and Quebec.

Tropical Storm Andrea, the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has formed, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.

New research from the University of British Columbia suggests intense heat and wildfire smoke may pose a particularly serious threat to human health.

The temperature in Toronto reached a high unseen in 10 years on Monday as the city entered day two of its heat wave.

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth and noticed an unusual behavior: Some orcas were rubbing against each other for up to 15 minutes at a time.

Scientists have found a way to use the bacteria E.Coli to convert plastic waste into a popular painkiller, a study said Monday, though outside experts doubted the technique would make a dent in the fight against plastic pollution.

Canada’s Federal Court has rejected legal challenges disputing the approval of a so-called 'floatel' used to house workers near Squamish, B.C., as they build a liquefied natural gas facility at an abandoned pulp mill.

Manitoba’s state of emergency that was put in place due to the wildfire situation is set to be lifted.

Work on climate change has largely focused on preventing it from getting worse, but as a new RBC report points out, businesses are also starting to think more about potential spending on adaptation and preparation as the costs of disasters pile up.

Much of Ontario and southwestern Quebec are continuing to bake in high temperatures Monday as a heat dome lingers over the region.

Firefighters in Yukon say the wildfire that has put about 100 homes on evacuation alert near Dawson has grown rapidly due to recent weather conditions, more than doubling its size reported a day ago.

Environment Canada has issued more than 350 weather and air quality alerts for this weekend, including extreme heat warnings across much of Ontario.

It’s been a year now since a new law took effect that requires companies to back up their environmental claims, but there’s still a lot of unknowns about how the anti-greenwashing rules will play out.

Michigan wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck around his neck — for two years.

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery,” new research has found.