Tag Archives: Environment

HALIFAX - Lost and discarded fishing gear dumped off the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia - site of Canada's most lucrative lobster fishery - is trapping species at risk and hurting the lobster indus...

VANCOUVER - Two groups focused on environmental issues are calling on the British Columbia government to come up with a plan to track "heat dome injuries" following record-setting temperatures that ar...

HALIFAX - As Nova Scotia's provincial election campaign has unfolded amid deadly heat waves in Western Canada and catastrophic flooding in Europe, the topic of preparing the province for its own poten...

Western Canada must urgently address the threats posed by highly destructive wildfires or face deadly and costly consequences, says a group of forest and environmental experts from British Columbia an...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Flash flooding killed 150 people in a remote area in Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern Nuristan province controlled by the Taliban, a spokesman for the insurgents said T...

When an unprecedented heat wave "cooked" the cherries growing at his family's farm in Oliver, B.C., Pravin Dhaliwal tried to see past the financial loss to the passion that spurred him to follow in th...

MONTREAL - An animal-rescue group is trying to save a population of white-tailed deer that has outgrown a Montreal-area park, but even the head of an veterinary ethics committee says doing anything ot...

VANCOUVER - A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say. Michael Fromm, a meteorologist with the Unit...

VANCOUVER - Health experts warn that a shift in mindset and new solutions are needed as exposure to smoke from bigger wildfires becomes a regular occurrence. While the longer-term health effects of ex...

A second Alberta First Nation wants a court to allow it to appeal a review board's decision that an open-pit coal mine in the Rocky Mountains is not in the public interest. The Stoney Nakoda Nation ha...