Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan’s four-year fight over MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine went all the way to the high court

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2017 that the almost 38,000 records of residential school testimony collected through the IAP will be destroyed in 2027, unless individual survivors request their ...

In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes the experimental work of early American gynecologists, in...

Women have mined for centuries, but laws barring them from the industry helped cement the idea that mining was men’s work.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we go on a free public tour of some of the hidden climate solutions in downtown Vancouver; see how wildfire smoke is affecting moths; and find out why th...

Chandra Clarke Under Review:Auroville: A City of Dreams. Katarzyna Boni, translated by Mark Ordon. Open Letter Books, July 2026. History is littered with attempts at utopian communities. Some end q…

Many of our favorite foods were actually created by women. Some of these foods were made out of necessity, while others were lucky and delicious accidents.

As well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C

By closing the loop on the same reaction that makes cement, researchers say plants could capture more CO2 than they release.

From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it

It might seem an unlikely way to stop overheating, but many owners have found the tech a lifeline in hot weather

Researchers calculated the carbon footprint of vehicle trade-ins across a wide variety of scenarios, and EVs emerged as the clear winner

Using electricity and seawater chemistry would be more economical and efficient than today’s direct air capture technologies

For half a century, workers in northern China have been using a technique called "straw checkerboards" to combat desertification.

A plasma pyrolysis breakthrough turns soggy spent grounds into coal-grade biochar without pre-drying—opening the door to distributed waste-to-energy systems

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A vaccine ‘almost eliminated’ a type of cancer, the green economy surged, and London’s beavers solved a flooding problem, plus more good news

Northwestern chemists created a liquid that morphs into an energy-storing gel and resets with nothing but air—no metal, no plastic, no battery casing required.

Artists boost the economy and enrich society, yet many struggle to make ends meet. Ireland's income scheme aims to change that

For 75 years it produced coal. Now, this Illinois site generates community solar for local homes and businesses.

The data breach, likely the largest in Canadian history, raises urgent questions about election security

Gurnoor Kaur, a Grade 11 student at Cameron Height Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, has won the best project award for innovation at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Edmonton.

More Americans are using small solar panels in their back yards or balconies as a clean way to cut their electric bills

Think EVs don't make sense in cold climates, or that a dirty power grid cancels out the benefits? Researchers find the opposite is true—and that EVs cost no more to own than a comparable gas car almos...

New research links the spread of white-nose syndrome to higher municipal bond yields—and points to a novel way for investors to make money by saving wildlife.

Chandra Clarke Under Review:Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice. Eds. Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, and Jordan S. Carroll. The MIT Pre…

He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary...

At the right concentration, the carbon-rich soil booster makes ants forage 2x as fast, build threefold more complex nests, and bond more tightly. At the wrong one, it poisons them.

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This is the 323rd edition of SHuSH, the newsletter of The Sutherland House Inc.

A study done by Ontario’s electricity operator found that wind and solar energy combined with battery storage can meet about 99.5% of Ontario’s electricity demand. Renewables can power Ontario’s futur...

Something has changed on Canadian social media in the last few weeks. I’ve felt it. Maybe you have too.

The AI buildout on Canadian soil is accelerating. The power costs, the water costs, the grid expansion, those are landing on Canadian ratepayers.

From California to Alabama, people of color are building communal spaces rooted in care and tradition

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They're the chili peppers in the spicy chicken at a restaurant you might know. And they were an ingredient used by a Canadian company to build the first solar power plants in Malawi.

Britain’s swift population fell by two-thirds between 1995 and 2023. Make their lives a little easier with a bit more food and more places to nest