Tag Archives: Environment

VANCOUVER - Views of Metro Vancouver's ski hills looming over the city are a sea of green after a winter of record-breaking warmth, sparse snow and torrential rain. Skiers and snowboarders have faced ...

OTTAWA - Five people are facing mischief charges after the building that houses the Prime Minister's Office was doused with splashes of pink paint. It is the second such protest in less than a year by...

VICTORIA - When B.C. marine scientist Anna Hall encountered a very lost loggerhead turtle in waters near Victoria over the weekend, she knew it faced a grim fate at sea. "The turtle would not have sur...

British Columbia-based conservation groups have written to the federal environment minister requesting a review of a chemical used in tire rubber, which experts say has been linked to the "mass deaths...

The federal government should act quickly to better protect critical habitat from old-growth logging and destruction, environmental groups said Tuesday, as they hailed a court decision touching on at-...

FREDERICTON - An enigmatic fossil uncovered seven years ago in a New Brunswick quarry has been found to reveal an extinct tree with a narrow trunk and a top like a pompom, a remnant from a time before...

OTTAWA - Demand for federal cash to help defray the cost of home energy renovations spiked in recent months, forcing the government to close applications for the program almost a year earlier than exp...

Alberta and two prominent business groups have released formal responses to a proposed federal emissions cap as the province's environment minister was slated to meet with her federal counterpart. "Th...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is asking Ottawa for help as the province digs out from an "extreme snowfall" that has prompted parts of Cape Breton to declare local states of emergency. A stalle...

MONTREAL - When Ellen Rice-Hogan discovered that someone had bought a mining claim under her farm, she was shocked. There's no mining around the Township of Low, Que., about 40 kilometres northwest of...