Tag Archives: Environment

The spill of about two million tonnes of cyanide-soaked ore at a Yukon gold mine was one of the two "most catastrophic failures" in the 45-year history of the heap-leaching mining process, an engineer...

VICTORIA - When Bill Edwards feeds his pet servals Luna and Tumas on his rural Vancouver Island property, he cannot just simply reach for cans of cat food. He instead serves them raw chicken and froze...

VANCOUVER - Ryan Ness of the Canadian Climate Institute says he's been following the "terrible tragedy" of deadly flash flooding unfolding in Texas, where more than 100 people have died. But he's also...

A new report from a group of more than 30 experts says a population of endangered killer whales off the coast of British Columbia and Washington state is showing no sign of recovery under the current ...

OTTAWA - An environmental think tank is warning the federal government against repealing its electric vehicle mandate, instead suggesting that politicians should be helping to put more EVs on the road...

YELLOWKNIFE - Canada's environment ministers have endorsed stronger air quality standards for fine particulate matter, while acknowledging the struggles caused by wildfires that can blanket the countr...

OTTAWA - The federal minister of Indigenous services says her government plans to reintroduce legislation to ensure First Nations' rights to clean drinking water - despite calls from Alberta and Ontar...

Inspector Drew Milne of the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service likened it to finding a needle in a haystack - the haystack being a 137-hectare park on Vancouver Island, and the needle being...

MONTREAL - A recent Quebec government investigation into the climate at two Montreal junior colleges may have had a chilling effect on teachers, according to the director general of one of the schools...

An independent review says last year's spill of millions of tonnes of cyanide-soaked ore at a Yukon gold mine unfolded in seconds but resulted from the "accumulation of a series of adverse conditions ...