Environment
Natural Resources Canada promotes the responsible use of natural resources — enabling you to protect your health, the environment and the landmass, while meeting your needs for resource-based products, both now and for the future.
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- Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program
- Funding for research and activities to improve our knowledge of Canada's vulnerability to climate change, to better assess the risks and benefits posed by climate change and to build the foundation upon which appropriate decisions on adaptation can be made.
- ecoACTION
- Using less, living better
- Entomology
- Research in this area focuses on studying forest insects, their physiology and life cycles, to better understand how to control outbreaks and manage population levels, and developing biological pesticides and alternative controls.
- Freshwater – The Role and Contribution of Natural Resources Canada
- Natural Resources Canada is one of more than 20 federal government departments and agencies currently involved in addressing freshwater issues.
- Forest Ecosystems of Canada
- Learn more about forest ecosystems by exploring four themes related to a number of Canadian Forest Service research activities.
- Insects - see Entomology
- Permafrost
- Permafrost research at the Geological Survey of Canada integrates geological mapping, process studies, geotechnical investigations, geophysical and geothermal surveys, laboratory studies, and numerical/GIS modelling.
- Plant Hardiness Site, Canada’s
- Outlines the different zones in Canada where various types of trees, shrubs and flowers will most likely survive.
- Polar Continental Shelf Project
- Coordinates support for, and offers expert advice to Canadian government and university scientists and independent, private sector and non-Canadian researchers working in isolated areas throughout the Canadian Arctic.
- Wetlands
- Overview of the Canadian Wetland Classification System and the Wetland Regions of Canada.