Making sure food scraps end up in the compost and not the garbage just got more important as the City of Toronto is turning your organic waste into a gas that can be used to fuel trucks and even heat your home.  Pulling into the Dufferin Solid Waste Management Facility near Dufferin Street and Finch Avenue…

Much has been made of the difficulty facing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he tries to manage a fractured country with a minority Liberal government.  But Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer himself is facing a burden so onerous it seems almost impossible. The Herculean task for Scheer — or any successor — is how to formulate a climate change plan that is friendly…

You’re standing in front of a public waste bin holding a takeaway cup, puzzled by the three options in front of you: garbage, recycling or organic. Sometimes it’s a tough decision, but could it be easier with help from artificial intelligence (AI)? Five University of Toronto masters students think so, and so to combat bin confusion — which they say…

NASA reports the ozone hole near the south pole this year is the smallest since it was discovered in 1985. Scientists say this is due more to freakishly warm Antarctic weather than the decades long effort to reduce the use of chlorinated chemicals that cause the seasonal gap. Earth’s protective ozone layer shields life from…

It may be as small as a cooing pigeon, but this bird can belt it out louder than a jackhammer. New measurements show the white bellbird, a fruit-eating, treetop bird in the northern mountains of the Amazon rainforest, has broken the record for the loudest bird song in the world. When the male takes a deep breath and…

Research has found Arctic soil has warmed to the point where it releases more carbon in winter than northern plants can absorb during the summer. The finding means the extensive belt of tundra around the globe — a vast reserve of carbon that dwarfs what’s held in the atmosphere — is becoming a source of…