Tag Archives: Environment

ST. JOHN'S - As some of eastern Newfoundland's tinder-dry forests continued to burn out of control on Friday, the provincial government exponentially increased its fines for those caught lighting ille...

HALIFAX - The federal Fisheries Department is shedding new light on its relationship with OceanGate, the American company behind the deepsea Titan submersible that imploded south of Newfoundland in 20...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs says it's time for Ottawa to stop studying the idea of a national forest fire co-ordination agency and take action. The organization's president wants ...

MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday ordered a two-week halt to construction at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" as she considers whether it viol...

TORONTO - A study of dozens of Canadian lakes suggests global warming is the major driver of surging algae levels, raising questions about the health of a sizable chunk of Earth's freshwater as temper...

MONTREAL - A polarizing figure who railed against pandemic restrictions and wants to break Quebec's consensus on carbon pricing could be days away from claiming a long-coveted seat in the provincial l...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a First Nation's bid to stop a tailings dam from being raised at the Mount Polley mine site, which suffered a catastrophic dam collapse that spilled mi...

A Yukon First Nation says it will oppose any new mining claims on its traditional territory as it begins a regional land-use planning process with the territory's government. The First Nation of Na-Ch...

WASHINGTON - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew accused a group of Republicans of throwing a "timber tantrum" and playing "political games" after they called out Canada over wildfires sending smoke billowing ...

OTTAWA - Canada is pushing to bring language recognizing the rights of Indigenous Peoples back into a United Nations plastics pollution treaty. Delegates from more than 170 countries are in Geneva thi...