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The Canadian government made its largest land transfer in history on Thursday when it officially signed over the massive Arctic territory of Nunavut to its own government, who will now have control over the 808,200 square miles of sparsely populated mountains, tundra and vast mineral reserves. The Nunavut Lands and Resources Devolution Agreement signed by […]

The Canadian province of Ottawa is planning to announce new automobile regulations — the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard — this week, while the Canadian government is set to unveil a requirement that all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035, according to a senior government source, as Reuters reported. The Electric Vehicle Availability Standard […]

Methane emissions are more than 28 times more potent at trapping atmospheric heat than carbon dioxide, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. In 2021, 31 percent of the total methane emissions produced by Canada came from agriculture, most of which were from the fermentation of food in the stomachs of beef and dairy […]

The best way to experience what our planet was like before modern humans began to dramatically change the landscape is to go where the wilderness is. There are more than 200,000 protected areas across the globe that, as of mid-2021, covered 16.64 percent of the land and 7.74 percent of oceans. These national parks exemplify […]

After days of churning in the Caribbean, where Hurricane Lee reached Category 5 status with maximum sustained winds of 165 miles per hour (mph), the storm is headed toward the Atlantic Coast of New England and Canada. According to the National Hurricane Center, the “large and dangerous” Category 1 storm is projected to make landfall […]

Since late April, wildfires have been burning across Canada, blanketing the country and parts of the U.S. in unhealthy and sometimes dangerous smoke, in what Canadian wildfire officials have called the worst wildfire season ever recorded. In a new study, scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) Initiative examined the conditions that lead to the […]

Canadian wildfires have released 290 megatonnes of carbon emissions from January to July 2023, already breaking the previous annual high of 138 megatonnes of carbon emissions in 2014 by more than double, according to Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service. The emissions for this year are set to keep rising as fires continue to blaze, with fire […]

Following years of discussions by scientists on how and when humans began to significantly alter the planet, Canada’s Crawford Lake has been chosen to mark the beginning of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The International Union of Geological Sciences had to select one site that symbolized humans’ enormous effect on Earth before the new […]