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A City-sized Patch of Fallen Trees is Piling Up in Arctic Canada

Deep in the Canadian Arctic, you can find a 51-square-kilometer (20-square-mile) pileup of fallen trees and ancient wood. Scientists have recently mapped this woody pile-up – the largest “logjam” in the world – and believe it’s likely to be having a massively underappreciated impact on the planet’s carbon cycle. The pile-up is located in the […]

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Canada’s 7.4% Emissions Cut is Still Too Slow to Meet UN Pledge

Canada has made significant progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions from before COVID-19, but the pace is still too slow to meet international commitments, new data show.   Emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate-warming gases in 2021 were 7.4 per cent below 2019 levels, according to a government report released Friday. Still, they were up 1.8 […]

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Funds for Improving Commercial Building Energy Efficiency in Canada

Canada is launching a program to provide financial aid to organizations looking to improve the energy efficiency of their commercial and institutional buildings.

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