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• Ottawa is injecting $9.5 million to add fast-charging stations in Quebec

  Ottawa is announcing a $9.5-million investment to install 215 fast-charging stations for electric vehicles by the end of 2022 across Quebec.

  

• The monarch butterfly population is in trouble; how 'citizen scientists' are helping the cause

  With every year, fewer and fewer monarchs are returning north in the spring, as their journey home has grown increasingly treacherous. One Montreal initiative, called Mission Monarch, is tracking this decline very closely — and 'citizen scientists' are helping out.

  

• New heat wave alert system designed for Quebec in wake of climate change

  Experts say extreme heat waves will likely become more frequent occurrences in Quebec due to climate change.

  

• Higher concentrations of controversial herbicide glyphosate may soon be on your plate: here's why

  Canadians have until Tuesday to comment on the federal government’s proposal to increase the amount of glyphosate herbicide residue allowed on certain legumes, according to Health Canada's website.

  

• Will the idea of reusable takeout containers take off? A pilot project aims to reduce single-use packaging at restaurants

  Montrealers have ordered in a lot since the start of the pandemic, and with it, a mountain of single-use packaging. Now, a pilot project is trying to get more reusable packaging on the dinner tables of Quebecers.

• Trudeau announces $25 million to expand GE wind turbine plant in Gaspe region

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Quebec's Gaspe region on Wednesday and made a campaign-style announcement of $25 million to expand a wind turbine plant to produce blades destined for markets in the United States and Europe.

• Loto-Quebec pulls 'Heat Record' scratch cards off the market due to backlash

  Loto-Quebec has pulled its Heat Record (Record de Chaleur) scratch tickets off the market the day after they were launched due to backlash over the deaths caused by the heat waves across Canada.

• Arctic seabirds have a low tolerance to heat, McGill study suggests: what this means in a rapidly-warming climate

  A jet-black head with eyes to match, a tuxedo of black and white plumage — at first glance, the thick-billed murre might be mistaken for a penguin. But this chicken-sized seabird is a creature of its own, inhabiting the seas, skies, and shores of the arctic. Like so many northern creatures, however, the murre is threatened by rising temperatures and shortened winters — and a new McGill study is helping uncover why.

• Hungry caterpillars stripping trees in Quebec, Ontario and on Montreal's Mount Royal

  Biologists are tracking the spread of a bumper crop of hungry caterpillars that are eating their way through some of Quebec and Ontario's best-known green spaces.

• Quebec experienced driest spring in 60 years: Hydro-Quebec

  Hydro-Quebec reports this last spring was the driest on record since the 1950s.

• Here comes the sun: Hydro-Quebec inaugurates its first solar power plants

  Hydro-Quebec will now produce a new form of energy. The provincially run corporation inaugurated its first solar power plants on Monday, in La Prairie and Varennes, on Montreal's South Shore.

• Quebec Zoo, federal government purchase land to protect endangered turtle

  The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has partnered with Granby Zoo and others this week to purchase properties near Montreal they say is essential to protect the endangered spiny softshell turtle.