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Nuclear power is playing an increasingly vital role in Canada's energy security, economy, and net-zero goals. However, the topic of nuclear energy brings up strong opinions and emotions, both for [...]

ANYONE WONDERING WHY Canadians sometimes lose faith in government's ability to get anything done should read a report that the country's auditors general released at the end of March. The [...]

IN HIS BOOK THE FUTURE, published earlier this year, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore joins an ever-growing chorus of doomsayers. If we humans don't clean up our act, he argues, [...]

By 2013, when Dutch conservationist Annemarieke Spitzen-van der Sluijs and her colleagues finally deteria mined why endangered fire salamanders were showing up dead on wooded footpaths in the Netherlands, much [...]

As with city hall and true love, you can't fight chemistry. And that's bad news for the cement business. Cement--the ubiquitous binding agent that makes possible the concrete buildings, roads, [...]

It isn't a big surprise, but Canada won't come anywhere close to reaching the greenhouse gas reduction targets it agreed to in Copenhagen back in 2009. According to government figures, [...]

Alberta's energy minister, Steve West, spent much of last week wearing a tight smile, his clenched jaw and square shoulders set as firmly as his conviction that people who blame [...]

DEEP BENEATH THE streets of Montreal's entertainment district, running alongside the usual water, sewage and gas pipes that lie underground in every community across the country, something entirely unique is [...]

CANADIANS ARE SHOPPING SMARTER AS ENVIRONMENTAL CHOICE (M) IDENTIFIES MORE AND MOR ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE PRODUCTS There is no such thing as a consumer product that has no impact on the [...]

Four years ago, North America's potato growers formed a cartel. By managing supply, and keeping demand--and prices--high, the United Potato Growers of America, which later helped found a Canadian counterpart, [...]

Every day, about 470 tons of largely untreated industrial and household effluent pour into Rio de Janeiro's graceful Guanabara Bay, beneath the landmark Sugarloaf Mountain. Indeed, the quantity of garbage [...]

THE COST OF GOING GREEN As an estimated 500 million people in 140 countries participated in Earth Day events last weekend, a tiny conference in Yellowknife, N.W.T., underscored just how [...]

DANGER IN THE WATER In February, 1989, Emily Gallant, who owns a beauty salon in Tignish, P.E.I., 100 km northwest of Charlottetown, noticed that the water from taps at the [...]

Brokering an international deal on climate change may be the easy part. Next up: provincial harmony. Only a few weeks ago, Marlo Raynolds was an Ottawa outsider. During more than [...]

Richard Haskayne and Jim Bruce became officers of the Order of Canada one after the other last week. In the Ballroom of Ottawa's Rideau Hall, a room dripping with gold [...]

GREEN POLITICS At the time, the appointment was widely viewed as a sign that Ottawa was ready to give top priority to environmental concerns. In fact, when Prime Minister Brian [...]

National Wildlife Week The Interconnection between Habitat and Development In the heart of downtown Mississauga, Ontario, a city of gleaming new high-rise buildings, shopping malls and high-speed freeways, lies a [...]

CLEANING UP A CHEMICAL SOUP During his varied career, Lewis Schmittroth has been a mathematician, a computer scientist, a farmer and a businessman. Now 65 and retired, Schmittroth lives near [...]

Prime Minister Jean Chretien officially ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and Environment Minister David Anderson delivered the papers to the United Nations in New York. With that, Canada became the 98th [...]

When John Manley addressed the Calgary Petroleum Club in mid-November, people's ears perked up. After all, the federal finance minister is a strong contender to succeed his mentor, Prime Minister [...]

Under the proposed Kyoto climate control treaty, the federal government believes Canada must slash its carbon dioxide output by 240 megatonnes per year. An Environment Canada announcement detailing how this [...]

THE DEAL: The Kyoto Protocol is an international plan formulated in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, after nine years of talks, to address the environmental threat posed by the large-scale production [...]

Canadians will be asked to better insulate their homes and drive less - - and probably do the speed limit -- in order to meet Ottawa's new targets for reducing [...]

IN ALBERTA political circles, Lorne Taylor is sometimes referred to as the 'egghead redneck.' It is a mark of the man that Taylor, who is Alberta's environment minister and who [...]

As anticipated, our megalomaniacal prime minister strutted onto the world stage in Johannesburg to proclaim that Canada would ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Since returning home, he's been trying to backpedal [...]