Tag Archives: Environment

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says it has been told there is a "potential leak" in a containment pond holding toxic water at the Eagle Gold mine, where millions of tonnes of contaminated rock were...

It takes years to rebuild a whale. Just ask Jim Borrowman, co-founder of the Whale Interpretive Centre museum that housed numerous whale skeletons on the boardwalk of Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Islan...

The Biden administration released long-awaited final rules Friday for a tax credit that will send billions of dollars to producers of cleaner hydrogen. The new rules drew cautious praise from environm...

Infectious disease experts say the avian flu case that infected a 13-year-old in British Columbia shows "worrisome" signs that the virus could be mutating to more easily infect humans, but that the tr...

OTTAWA - Canada is trying to push the world's nations to stick with the goals they set to confront the planet's main challenges, despite rising geopolitical confrontation that has made the 2030 deadli...

Canadian forests are increasingly primed for severe, uncontrollable wildfires, a study published Thursday said, underlining what the authors described as a pressing need to proactively mitigate the "i...

MONTREAL - A Quebec man killed in an avalanche in the state of Utah over the weekend is being remembered as a nature lover and adventure seeker who will be sorely missed. Utah authorities said David t...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence suggesting high levels of road salt in B.C. streams can cause death of salmon eggs and deformities in young salmon, and they hope ...

A mother killer whale who famously pushed the body of her dead newborn for 17 days in 2018 has lost another calf, and researchers say she is again carrying the body in an apparent act of grief. The Ce...

OTTAWA - Canada is set to take over the presidency of the G7 in 2025, leading a forum of seven of the world's most advanced economies at a time of political instability at home and around the world. H...