We’re breaking down what you need to know about the pandemic by answering your questions. You can send your questions via email at COVID@cbc.ca and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday on our website, and we’re also putting some of your questions to the experts on…

A huge forest fire in Ukraine that has been raging for more than a week is now just one kilometer from the defunct Chornobyl nuclear power plant and poses a radiation risk, Greenpeace Russia warned on Monday, citing satellite images. Ukraine’s Emergency Situations Service said it was still fighting the fires, but that the situation…

In Brazil, wide swaths of rainforest are being decimated for logging and farmland. In Asia, animals are being collected in the wild and sold in markets. In Africa, some animals are hunted down to near-extinction for their so-called medicinal qualities. Meanwhile, in countries like Canada and the U.S., some natural habitats are being overtaken by…

Now that the COVID-19 threat is upon us, scientists and innovators are pulling out the stops to find ways of coping. That rush of invention is no surprise to historians — not just of science, but economics, too. In the 1620s, living through the plague inspired economist and polymath William Petty to devise a system to count the…

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: Are physical distancing measures giving bikes a new lease on life? As energy projects expand worldwide, renewable sources are surging…

Forecasting the future is never easy. When the forecast involves a pandemic’s effects on the world’s population and its economy, the stakes couldn’t be higher. That’s why the COVID-19 modelling the federal government is presenting this morning needs to be read with an understanding of what these models can — and can’t — tell us. CBCNews.ca will have full…