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BC Ferries has launched a bid to build up to seven green flagship vessels but climate groups are urging the company to abandon liquified natural gas to fuel ships and speed electrification of its fleet to reach its emissions targets.

A startup is zapping seawater with electricity to extract and store away carbon, but scientists remain skeptical.

First Nations and Métis in Alberta are joining with environmental organizations to formally request that Ottawa add a hazardous toxic acid found in oilsands tailings ponds to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

It falls on ordinary people to prove that the chemicals are toxic before they are regulated by the government. That is simply backward.

Nenshi, in an interview before he announced his NDP candidacy Monday, said purple has many shades of meaning and the colour also symbolizes not being defined by one's tribe during an "extremely divisive" time. 

Alberta’s new restrictions on renewable energy development could prohibit billions of investments in proposed wind and solar projects, according to a new analysis from an Alberta-based think tank.

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More than 120,000 Quebecers found themselves without power on Sunday after snow and strong winds buffeted parts of the province.

A group of climate activists on Monday blocked the entrance to the Swedish parliament, advocating for sweeping reforms to tackle climate disasters.

Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 people died, whole towns were wiped out and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was destroyed, creating deep fears of radiation that linger today.

The heart of British Columbia's wine industry is reeling after suffering a litany of climate-related hits, resulting in two years of crop losses in the southern Interior.

The potential lies in geothermal: heat generated by the Earth, which can be harnessed in a variety of ways. While in operation, underground coal mines are dewatered to allow for workers to extract coal. When a mine is not maintained, it naturally floods with surface and groundwater: which can be used for geothermal.

Canada's efforts to reduce the climate impacts from farms will be most effective if they consider how they affect farmers' mental health, advocates say. 

Canada's competition bureau commissioner wants more power to tackle corporate greenwashing, as the agency finds itself investigating the country's largest bank and major oilsands companies.

As the urgency of addressing climate change grows across the United States, one unprecedented heat wave and flood at a time, cities are finding ways to cut fossil fuels out of their future.