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Category: Climate Change

Budget 2025 Puts Ontario’s Nature at Risk: Here’s Why.

June 13, 2025–Luke Bondi

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Conservation News•Boreal Forest•Campaigns and advocacy•Climate Change•Land-use planning•Protected Places•Species at Risk

Cochrane Area Wildfire 2023 © AFFES-MNRF

During a global climate and biodiversity crisis, Ontario’s 2025 budget, introduced as Bill 24, Plan to Protect Ontario Act, fails to deliver critical investments in nature protection and conservation. Instead, ...

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Transformative Change for Biodiversity Urgently Needed

January 15, 2025–Tony Morris

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Conservation News•Climate Change•How To•Reduce Your Footprint•Stewardship and restoration

Sydenham River Nature Reserve, Fall Planting Event 2023 © Kayla Salive

In December 2024, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released a new assessment report on progress towards halting biodiversity collapse. This latest international report again highlights ...

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How The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Achieves a Climate-Safe Future

June 20, 2024–Sandra Dosen

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Campaigns and advocacy•Climate Change•Reduce Your Footprint

Pinery Provincial Park © Helena Jacoba

Nature-based solutions to address the climate crisis are important and gaining popularity but they alone cannot address it effectively while the burning of fossil fuels – the primary driver of ...

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Zombie Fires Burning in the Peat

May 29, 2024–Rajinstan Kamalraj

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Conservation News•Climate Change•Wetlands

Boreal forest sunrise, northern Ontario © Rajinstan Kamalraj

Lurking underground in Canada’s boreal forests, zombie fires are the latest concern in an ever-growing list of issues arising from a changing climate. Ever wondered how wildfires start so early ...

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The Healing Place

October 24, 2023–Guest blogger

Categories

Climate Change•Stewardship and restoration

Squash, corn and beans © Feria de Productores CC BY 2.0

As one of North America’s largest clean electricity providers, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) meets about half of Ontario’s power needs. To continue advancing towards a greener Ontario and fight climate ...

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