Tag Archives: Environment

OTTAWA - Most federal programs aimed at reducing plastic waste are working, but the government isn't measuring its progress toward its overall goal of zero plastic waste by 2030, according to a new au...

Climate change, not habitat loss, may be the biggest threat to the survival of threatened caribou herds, new research suggests. "We might need to do additional management actions if our goal is to con...

BRANTFORD, Ont. - Ontario says it will give wildland firefighters the same cancer, heart and post-traumatic stress disorder coverage as municipal firefighters. Labour Minister David Piccini says the p...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) - Richelle Dietz, a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy chief petty officer, often thinks about water. The family, stationed in Honolulu, spends more than...

MONTREAL - Parks Canada will reinstall around 30 garbage bins along Montreal's Lachine Canal after some visitors expressed frustration at their sudden disappearance earlier this month. The federal age...

OTTAWA - A global treaty to end plastic waste can be ambitious and successful without firm caps on plastic production, which are hard to design and harder to get agreement on, Canada's environment min...

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - An orphan killer whale calf escaped from a remote Vancouver Island tidal lagoon Friday where it had been trapped for more than a month, immediately swimming towards the open ocean and...

OTTAWA - Aamjiwnaang First Nation is declaring a state of emergency over a benzene leak linked to a neighbouring petrochemical facility. The community near Sarnia, Ont., which is surrounded by industr...

Canada's farm fields are in the midst of a transformation. As the country rapidly warms from human-caused climate change, farmers are being pushed to reconsider conventional wisdom about what can and ...

PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA - An agreement between the B.C. government and the First Nations that manage Joffre Lakes Provincial Park will see the popular tourist spot closed for part of the year to p...