Tag Archives: Environment

DUNCAN, B.C. - Christmas tree growers in British Columbia say they are facing a brown holiday season due to the heat dome that drove temperatures above 40 Celsius for days and burned firs destined for...

If you're out on the lake, you might notice a bit of a nasty surprise - hundreds of dead fish floating in the water. It's certainly gross, but there's not much that can be done about it according to G...

ISTANBUL (AP) - Wildfires raged Sunday near Turkey's holiday beach destinations of Antalya and Mugla as the discovery of more bodies caused the death toll to rise to eight. Residents and tourists fled...

ISTANBUL (AP) - Panicked tourists in Turkey hurried to the seashore to wait for rescue boats Saturday after being told to evacuate some hotels in the Aegean Sea resort of Bodrum due to the dangers pos...

VANCOUVER - There is more to learn about the consequences of intensifying wildfires on community watersheds across Canada, but a large, severe fire followed by heavy precipitation could seriously affe...

EDMONTON - The public inquiry report into what the Alberta government labels troublesome foreign funding of enviro-groups was delivered Friday - a year late and million dollars over its original budge...

OTTAWA - The federal government has reached a nearly $8-billion settlement with First Nations who launched a class-action lawsuit over the lack of clean, safe drinking water in their communities. Indi...

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...