Climate

A new marine monitoring system that can detect undersea earthquakes, whale songs, ship noise and tidal activity could help improve environmental regulations, according to a recently-published study.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has issued an air quality warning for the Montreal area due to smoke from Canadian wildfires.

Environmentalists are divided on whether a new funding deal reached between Quebec and the federal government is a meaningful first step to saving the province’s dwindling caribou herds or a “smokescreen” that does little to protect the threatened species.

Quebec plans to invest $44 million over five years to restore the Lac Saint-Pierre ecosystem.

Water and sediment samples collected near the Stablex plant in Blainville are contaminated with several toxic metals, according to the results of a sampling campaign initiated by Climat Québec and the Blainville Citizens’ Coalition.

The Quebec government has once again lowered its target for electric vehicle sales.

A group of environmental organizations and municipalities is worried that Quebec’s groundwater reserves are dwindling due to overconsumption and the effects of climate change.

Quebec’s environment ministry has ordered the owners of an illegally constructed private golf course and manmade lake to restore the wetlands and bodies of water that were destroyed.

The Quebec government and Hydro-Québec are jointly investing nearly $350 million to improve home energy efficiency, lower electricity bills and support the province’s energy transition.

A Quebec mining company was handed a $100-million fine for releasing harmful substances into fish-bearing waters between 2014 and 2022 at the Mont-Wright and Fire Lake mining complexes in the Côte-Nord region.

Montreal has ended its biannual mobile collection of household hazardous waste, but the move is raising concerns that this sort of waste could end up in a landfill.

Environmental groups hope that texts written in the past by new Quebec Environment Minister, Pascale Déry, concerning endangered species and fossil fuels will not reflect her political decisions.

An organization working to accelerate decarbonization in Quebec is publishing a white paper on Thursday aimed at demonstrating that a property portfolio that takes sustainability and climate resilience into account is also synonymous with financial sustainability.

The City of Dorval is testing an unusual ingredient this winter in its fight against ice: starfish. Instead of relying solely on traditional road salt, the city launched a pilot project using an additive derived from invasive starfish species.

Quebec Solidaire (QS) and the Parti Québécois (PQ) voted in favour of a motion opposing a pipeline project that would cross Quebec, while the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) and the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) voted against it.