Salmon have been swimming in Pacific Northwest waters for at least seven million years, as indicated by fossils ...

Humans are fast becoming city dwellers. According to the United Nations, "The urban population of the world has ...

The shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy is occurring mainly at the power plant level. But what ...

People have harnessed energy from moving water for thousands of years. Greeks used various types of water wheels ...

Feeding more than seven billion people with minimal environmental and climate impacts is no small feat. That parts ...

Our health is tied to air, water, and food from the soil. That means we should keep them ...

For the most part, our brains didn’t evolve in cities. But in a few decades, almost 70 percent ...

Except for nuclear and geothermal, all energy we use comes from the sun in one form or another.

Unlike wind and solar, geothermal provides steady energy and can serve as a more cost-effective and less environmentally ...

Until 1969, biologists thought mushrooms and other fungi were plants. They're actually more closely related to animals, but ...

Thanksgiving is a time to gather with friends and family to appreciate the bounty of the fall harvest. ...

Volkswagen was caught cheating on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emissions tests by installing "defeat devices," which allowed its ...

Snapchat and selfies, iPhones and iPads... There's no denying technology plays a major role in the lives of ...

A little over a year ago, I wrote about a Heartland Institute conference in Las Vegas where climate ...

If a home is not cleaned and cared for, it will become rundown and less habitable or even ...

Jode Roberts has spent a lot of the summer checking out ditches and fields along the sides of ...

It was a dramatic image: millions of cubic metres of waste cascading from the Mount Polley mine breach ...

A beloved animal, tagged for tracking by researchers, crosses the invisible boundary between protected and unprotected area and ...

In fall 2011, politicians, farmers, environmentalists, and local advocates met in Toronto to get the ball rolling for ...

On July 15, a state-of-the-art new pipeline near Fort McMurray, Alberta, ruptured, spilling five million litres of bitumen, ...

When an assassin killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, no one called it the start of ...

My hometown, Vancouver, is in a rainforest, so we celebrate sunny days. People I talk to are enjoying ...

If nothing else, the G7 countries' recent agreement to end fossil fuel use for energy by 2100 signals ...

Reading the news, it's hard not to feel a growing sense of unease. The threat of terrorism, growing ...

June 8 is World Oceans Day. In Canada, it's a time to celebrate the rich marine life in ...

We're surrounded by life, but Earth's most plentiful living things are invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are ...

More than half the planet's people now live in urban areas. The need to supply food, shelter, fresh ...