Benjamin Shingler

This week, Quebec and Ottawa committed $2.7 billion toward an electric vehicle battery factory near Montreal. Such projects have faced questions, given the amount of public money involved.

It was a summer like no other in terms of wildfires across Canada, with some fires still burning. Here’s an overview of the unprecedented wildfire season and what it means for the future of the country’s forests.

This week’s hearing of the natural resources committee on Parliament Hill revealed less about the CEO of Suncor, the Calgary-based energy giant, than it did about the federal government’s failures, an environmental activist says.

The way the world is powered will change dramatically by the end of the decade, thanks to surging demand for electric vehicles and clean energy technologies, a new report from the International Energy Agency says. But experts say Canada should be doing more.

The federal government’s decision to exempt home heating oil from the carbon tax is being met with consternation by environmental advocates, who argued the change will muddy the country’s flagship climate policy.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to exempt home heating oil from the carbon tax has thrust the controversial policy back into the spotlight. Here are some of your questions, answered.

“The financial needs for developing countries when it comes to adaptation are far, far beyond what is what is available right now,” says a researcher in Haiti.

Cities in Canada and around the world are using “sponges” in parks, sidewalks and rooftops to soak up and divert water to deal with flooding, which has been made worse by climate change and urban development in wetlands.

Canada is among a group of top fossil fuel-producing countries on pace to extract more oil and gas than would be consistent with agreed-upon targets designed to limit global warming, according to a new report released by the United Nations.

Climate change is increasingly impacting the health and survival of people worldwide, and projections show risks will quickly rise with further inaction, scientists warn in a new report.