To validate satellite data for carbon-emissions modeling, researchers this summer torched a jack-pine forest in Canada and tried to ignite a stand of larch in Siberia.

As climate change sweeps through the vast northern forests of Canada and Russia, researchers from around the world are undertaking experiments binding high adventure and high science. Directed by Juergen Hansen and Paul Webster. …

As visitors to Expo 67 pulled into the parking lot, they might have been startled to hear that the gateway to the biggest party in Canadian history was situated on …

When legislators stop short and polluters won’t act, nothing spurs action like litigation. Americans started suing governments and companies that oppose efforts to address global warming quite a while back. …

In the mid-1990s, Canadian troops stationed in Somalia were found guilty of torturing and murdering detainees. Now Canadian soldiers and doctors are under investigation again, this time for human rights …

The final report of a government-commissioned investigation into the 2003 outbreak of SARS in Toronto that killed 44 blames hospital downsizing and warns “serious problems persist and much remains to …