Tag Archives: Environment

A Maple Creek firewood, logging and sawmill company has been ordered to pay nearly $10,000 after illegally importing pine logs from Alberta. According to Saskatchewan's environment ministry, the inves...

JASPER - Parks Canada says a weekend drenching of rain on parts of Jasper National Park is doing a lot to quell fire activity, but the wet weather also comes with a warning. In a daily update on the l...

MONCTON, N.B. - Ann Marie Reinhart was enjoying a peaceful day's fishing near southern New Brunswick's Kingston Peninsula when a sound between a howl and a scream tore through the air. Birds fell sile...

PIKE RIVER, Que. - The weeks-old baby turtle wriggles its legs as it's picked up from a blue tupperware bin and placed gently into a river south of Montreal. In a flash it's off, swimming deftly throu...

JASPER, ALTA. - One of Canada's most scenic highways has reopened as the wildfire in Jasper National Park continues to be held. Jane Park, incident commander with Parks Canada, says Highway 93, also k...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests more Canadians are feeling the direct impacts of extreme weather, but that has not changed overall opinions about climate change. The results from a recent Leger poll sugg...

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative government is trying to increase production from the province's declining conventional oil and gas fields at the expense of local tax bases, environmental over...

COURTENAY, B.C. - When Catherine Babault captured images of a female grizzly bear with two cubs encountering a herd of elk on Vancouver Island last month, she knew she had witnessed something special....

The largest study of Canada's catastrophic 2023 wildfire season concludes it is "inescapable" that the record burn was caused by extreme heat and parching drought, while adding the amount of young for...

Provincial data suggests Alberta's roadkill numbers are soaring, with snakes hit particularly hard last year. Alberta Wildlife Watch says almost 400 snake carcasses were reported to it in 2023. The ye...