Climate change

Furbish’s lousewort is kind of like the canary in a coal mine. The question now is, can we help it bounce back?

The Indigenous Seed Collection Program is an Indigenous-led program hosted by Natural Resources Canada’s National Tree Seed Centre in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Its purpose is to conserve species of spiritual, cultural, medicinal and economic importance to Indigenous communities from across this part of Turtle Island (now referred to as Canada). Participants and organizers braid together Indigenous ways of knowing and Western sciences, learning together as they collectively continue to preserve and protect our forests.

After three years of intense research and development, the first full-scale simulation of how climate change could impact groundwater and surface water resources in Canada is now available. This new model — called Canada1Water (C1W) — provides a science-based view to the end of the century

The story of North American forests is one of resilience, adaptation, renewal and hope.

January 2024

If you hike or stroll through one of Canada’s northern forests, you might experience a world of towering trees, cool shade filled with the scent of pines and spruces — home to many different plants and animals of all shapes and sizes. But Ellen Whitman, a wildfire research scientist at the Canadian Forest Service, sees things through a different lens. What she notices is a landscape quietly and gradually transforming.