Canada has many national parks to visit, but this stunning park is the best throughout the country for stargazing. It's also ...

More than half of Canada's landmass is comprised of boreal forest—a vast and tree-filled region that extends across the country. To help conserve the forest, the province of Alberta has designated ...

Strolling down the toilet paper aisle, one is faced with a grave decision: 3-ply or ultra-plush? For consumers, factors like price, size and comfort always come to mind first while consuming this ...

Ellen Whitman is a forest ecologist at Natural Resources Canada and the University of Alberta and is the co-author of a study published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports that examined changes ...

Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...

Few places in the country are more conscientious about sustainability and protecting the environment than the Bay Area. We recycle plastics, glass, paper and cans religiously. Bring tote bags to the ...

On Tuesday in Edmonton, the federal and provincial governments, the Tallcree First Nation, oilsands giant Syncrude and the Nature Conservancy of Canada announced the creation of the new protected ...

The Pew Environment Group released a report earlier this month urging protection of the Canadian boreal, the world's largest intact forest and the biggest carbon sink on land. (Listen to the ...

In 2014, we traveled to the northern boreal forests of Canada to set experimental fires that would help us understand the effect of wildfires on the global carbon cycle. Sadly, we never got the chance ...