UNEP is supporting cities, including Toronto, as they exchange best practices on how to conserve and restore urban nature.

Toronto’s Urban Dream That Was Not to Be. ... Sidewalk Labs took Waterfront Toronto's 50-year plan for the area and turbocharged it. The final 1,500-page Master Innovation and Development Plan, ...

When the 2011 census was taken last May 10, the population of the census metropolitan area of Toronto was 5,583,064, compared with 5,113,149 from the 2006 census.

Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs, the Google parent’s company focused on smart city technologies, will build a “mixed-use, complete community in Toronto on its eastern waterfront, with the aim of ...

New census data shows the population of the metropolitan area of Toronto outpaced the national growth rate over the last five years. ... where the urban core of that area has at least 50,000 people.

Toronto has the largest ravine network in the world, and to uncover the history of the city is to go deep into our urban forest: After all, it is in the centre of the Don Valley where the bricks ...

Toronto has long been serious about its urban canopy. The Ontario city is already home to around 10 million trees, which cover around 26% of the city. The current mayor, John Tory, wants to grow ...

Researchers attribute longer urban growing seasons to combined effects of artificial light and urban heat islands.

Areas with more tree cover are better able to fight these high temperatures, a discovery that is factoring into Toronto’s efforts to protect the ravine system.

The report, "State of the Urban Forest in the Greater Toronto Area," says that development, climate change, invasive pests and violent storms are wreaking havoc on urban forests in the Toronto area.