Environment

The rising cost of living is an obstacle in the drive to live green, but the burden is not entirely on them.

Images of animals displaced by wildfires, of floods destroying homes, and of melting ice caps are frequent, notable signs of climate change’s global impact. Environmental experts, academics and business owners…

The system aims to improve the university’s sustainability and involves a system of garbage, recycling and compost stations strategically placed around the RCC.

The earth two billion years ago was an inhospitable place. Days were only 15 hours long, no complex life had yet formed, and humans couldn’t have sustained life, as the…

Carbon neutrality has become synonymous with running a sustainable operation in the fight against climate change. So far, universities are finding it a hard practice to implement. Only a handful…

A city is an unsuspecting place to grow food, but now more than ever, people are turning to concrete jungles like Toronto to create food hubs.  Food insecurity has become…

Increasing global temperatures will require changes in energy use in order to maintain an optimal and comfortable office environment, according to a study by Ryerson researchers. The study, which was…

It wasn’t until sometime in the 2010s that Roxana Sühring learned about the contamination problem in Sweden’s Arctic Indigenous communities. A high concentration of specific plastic additives was found in…