“If you take reduced ice thickness into account, there is probably less ice overall in the Arctic this year than in any other year since monitoring began,” said Martin Sommerkorn, WWF International Arctic Programme’s... Read More

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Last year, NAFO took an important first step toward southern Grand Banks cod recovery by adopting a strategy that included an immediate bycatch reduction target of 40 per cent for 2008. Currently, NAFO fisheries... Read More

The average score among all oil sands projects surveyed was only 33 per cent, demonstrating substantial room for improvement across the sector. The leading operation in the survey was the Albian Sands Muskeg River... Read More

When saveourclimate.ca was launched two years ago, WWF-Canada’s goal was to raise awareness about climate change, and to explain why global warming is the greatest threat to biodiversity and sustainability. Today, as the Arctic... Read More

This change of heart comes after two decades of ‘bigger is better’, which saw the average fuel efficiency of vehicles on the road steadily decline, best chronicled by the Detroit bureau chief of the... Read More

Rajendra Pachauri is the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a body established by the UN in 1988 to provide regular assessments of the science for policymakers. On Tuesday, he noted... Read More

In other words, we now need at least 1.25 planets to meet our present natural resource demands. Indeed, if everyone consumed resources at the rate of your average Canadian, then we would need 4.3... Read More

this is the first time that these standards have been raised since 1975. How did it make it through this time? Well, it happened because the vehicle manufacturers are trying to ward off even... Read More

The phase out of the marine turtle fishery in Cuba is the result of a joint effort by WWF—led by WWF-Canada—and the Cuban Ministry of Fisheries, with financial support from the Canadian International Development... Read More

“It’s great to see so many people come together in support of WWF-Canada and the environment,” said Mike Russill, President and CEO of WWF-Canada. “Climate change is the biggest environmental threat to our planet.... Read More

The Good Life, launched in January, is a free online community that offers a menu of over 50 actions people can take to live a low-carbon lifestyle. The success of Earth Hour and the... Read More