Tag Archives: Environment

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - An ice jam had shrunk to almost half its size Thursday after causing major flooding earlier in the week that forced 13,000 people from their homes in Fort McMurra...

Ice jams can stretch for kilometres, reach several metres in height and cause rivers to rise in a matter of hours, says one river ice expert. An ice dam roughly 25 kilometres long&...

OTTAWA - Canada's national fight over the carbon tax won't get sorted out at the Supreme Court of Canada until the fall. The Supreme Court says appeals from both Saskatchewan and Ontario over cases th...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Fort McMurray resident Michelle Toner says it's been a hectic, sad week in the northern Alberta city. "Dealing with low oil prices, COVID-19 and now this massive flood that hasn...

VANCOUVER - Plans are underway for a pneumatic fish pump, also known as a salmon cannon, to be used to help fish migrate past a landslide on British Columbia's Fraser River, o...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Provincial and federal governments say they are ready to help with flooding in northern Alberta as the number of evacuations in Fort McMurray continued to increase Monday. ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - The spring ice breakup on rivers in northern Alberta is forcing some residents of Fort McMurray neighbourhoods from their homes, and people in the city's downtown have been...

The top of the world is turning upside down, says the first overall assessment of Canada's Arctic Ocean. The work of dozens of federal scientists and Inuit observers, it describes a vast ecosyste...

EDMONTON - Alberta's highest court has overturned regulatory approvals for a $440-million oilsands project that would have encroached on land a First Nation considers sacred. In a strongly worded...

OTTAWA - The yearly bills from overflowing rivers and rising seas in Canada could nearly triple by 2030 if Canada doesn't do more to improve flood protection, a new analysis suggested Thursday. The Aq...