Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

The proposed law would prevent businesses from advertising misleading statements about greenhouse gas emissions associated with their practices. It would also target claims about the effectiveness of their climate efforts and require them to back their sustainability claims on a public website.

For weeks, slick earthy green and pastel orange ads touting the climate benefits of Canada's logging have flooded millions of Facebook and Instagram feeds. The ads are one plank of a campaign by Canada's largest forestry lobby group — the Forest Products Association of Canada — to fight growing concerns about its impact on climate change and wildfires.

A group of researchers and conservationists is trying to bolster the soil health of hundreds of farms in Ontario's Greenbelt to help alleviate climate change.

A new labelling initiative is underway to help salmon aficionados indulge in their favourite fish without eating Canada's wild salmon into extinction.

Researchers have found that plans by gas companies to blend natural gas and hydrogen in an effort to reduce their emissions will likely backfire by creating more gas leaks.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is lagging in the fight against climate change because it does not have a plan to reduce the sector's greenhouse gas emissions, the federal environment commissioner has found. Photo by Pexels/Pixabay

For months, Canada's natural gas utilities have mustered lobbying efforts and funded online misinformation campaigns to fight efforts by municipalities to phase out the climate-warming fuel. And now they have a new ally.

Canada's pesticide regulator is years behind on a cumulative assessment of health risks posed by a group of pesticides linked to autism, hyperactivity and reduced intelligence scores in children.

Canadian officials are delayed in evaluating the health impacts of organophosphate pesticides, substances linked to severe neurodevelopmental issues in children.

A former official in Canada's agriculture ministry accused the federal pesticide regulator of failing to assess the health risks posed by the controversial chemical glyphosate, a key ingredient of Roundup, months before leaving the ministry.