Tag Archives: Environment

EDMONTON - Alberta suspended environmental monitoring for oilsands companies without notifying the Northwest Territories, despite a legally binding agreement to do so. The omission is revealed in a se...

EDMONTON - Four years after its flames guttered out, the record-breaking Fort McMurray wildfire continues to astound - this time with its lasting impact on an extensive river system. "It's actual...

OTTAWA - North Atlantic right whales are now considered one step away from complete eradication. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is moving the whales from "endangered" to "crit...

OTTAWA - Canada has joined an international group of nearly two dozen other countries working to protect the world's oceans. The Global Ocean Alliance, founded by Great Britain last year, seeks to pro...

An astonishing trove of century-old photographs of the Rocky Mountains shows those rugged symbols of permanence and endurance are just as mutable as anything else. "Almost all the mountains that we we...

A Canadian Forces base in Alberta is recruiting a new battalion of lean, mean, eating machines for a mission that will require limited action this summer. The Department of National Defence has p...

EDMONTON - Grizzly bears are doing their best to get along with people, but it still isn't enough. Newly published research concludes that without large wilderness areas to replenish their number...

OTTAWA - Legendary investor Warren Buffett's decision to walk away from a proposed export terminal for liquefied natural gas in Quebec is being held up in a new report as a sign that the LNG sector in...

According to Environment Canada, at least two tornadoes touched down in southwest Saskatchewan on Saturday. The first was reported at about 4 p.m. south of Glenbain by extreme weather photographer Cra...

OTTAWA - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion cleared another legal hurdle Thursday when the Supreme Court of Canada denied leave to appeal to First Nations that argue they were not properly consulte...