Sustainability

Protecting Canadians from Mosquito-Borne Diseases

It's a sound Canadians know all too well: the...

Wildfires in Canada

More than 6,000 wildfires burned across Canada in 2023,...

The Future of Food

About one in six people suffer from dysphagia, a...

Reducing Food Waste

Almost half of all food produced in Canada goes...

Waste Not, Want Not

One of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis is our throw-away society. From household waste and single-use plastics to byproducts from food production, we burn fossil fuels and spend money to truck our "garbage" to landfills and processing facilities, where some of it releases greenhouse gasses or pollutants into the environment as it breaks down.

Permafrost Thaw and Our Climate

About 40 per cent of Canada's land mass is underlain by permafrost, a layer of permanently frozen ground beneath the surface of the planet's...

Building to Net Zero

In Canada, nearly 30 per cent of the energy consumed is used to heat and cool our buildings, producing more than 20 per cent...

Microplastics Pollution and Your Health

Plastic pollution was already viewed as one of the most pressing environmental issues on the planet when, this spring, researchers made a pair of...

Edible Insects

Our planet's population is expected to reach nearly 11 billion by the end of this century, which will create a major global challenge: How...