Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s upcoming budget will include measures to deal with the immediate threat COVID-19 presents to the Canadian economy, while also focusing on the long-term need to transform the economy to adapt to climate change. In a speech on Friday, Morneau promised support would be coming next week for Canadians who have to…

Viruses naturally evolve by gathering mutations, gaining the ability to pass more easily between people or becoming deadlier. That’s why scientists are watching closely to track how COVID-19 changes. Scientific sleuths look at the genetic sequence of a virus like a fingerprint at a crime scene. They’re focused on finding sudden changes in the sequence…

Hello, people! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.) This week: ‘In-pipe power’ generates electricity when people run their taps The worldwide migration to cities poses an environmental challenge The fix…

NASA’s next Mars rover finally has a name. Perseverance, a six-wheeled robotic explorer, will blast off this summer to collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth. The name was suggested by Alex Mather, a Virginia seventh-grader, as part of a naming contest for U.S. schoolchildren. The U.S. space agency announced it Thursday at Alex’s…

Devastating bushfires that swept Australia in recent months were at least 30 per cent more likely as a result of climate change, scientists said on Wednesday, warning such fires may create unmanageable risks as emissions and temperatures rise further. An eight-week study into how heat and drought contributed to the fires found that hotter-than-normal conditions in…

Plastics are an integral part of our lives, but they also pose some big environmental problems. They generate a lot of waste, most of which isn’t recycled. A recent study from Environment and Climate Change Canada found that even in our country, only nine per cent of plastics are recycled — the rest is either incinerated, landfilled…