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The animals evolved into ultra-resilient, disease-free predators while isolated on Auckland Island.

Environmental advocates are pushing for stricter standards to help prevent greenhouse gas pollution from these new buildings, but one advocate says even housing that meets the minimum building standards is better than no new housing at all.

A recent parliamentary report on Arctic security missed the mark, according to one MP, by failing to recommend solutions tackling a huge threat to the Arctic: climate change.

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has granted official recognition of nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands, most of it in the Amazon, in a move that seeks to safeguard critical rainforest from the unchecked exploitation that marked his predecessor's administration.

That's well before the completion of a massive carbon capture and storage transportation line that has been proposed for the Canadian oilsands, the company says.

The federal government is working with a national gun industry organization to figure out how to compensate retailers that stock prohibited firearms, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says.

Asia must rapidly cut fossil fuel subsidies and plow more money into a clean energy transition to avoid catastrophic climate change that puts its own development at risk, according to a new report from the Asian Development Bank.

Along a downtown Montreal street, in sight of city hall, orange-and-white-striped traffic cones stand in a row on the sidewalk. A few metres away, more cones mark off construction sites, while a solitary cone is perched atop a blue bollard separating the street from a bike lane.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in New York City to pitch America’s movers and shakers on the virtues of Canada as a trade and investment partner.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a day after linking $330 million in provincial money for a Calgary NHL arena project to her United Conservatives getting re-elected, told reporters on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, she hopes it doesn’t become an election issue.

Opponents of a proposed silica sand mining project in Manitoba say the company, Sio Silica, is glossing over complex science and downplaying risks.

New technology is allowing researchers to covertly monitor, record and identify the sounds fish make underwater to try to unravel their deepest secrets.

The president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s Canadian arm says Inuit want direct access to an international fund dedicated to addressing destruction caused by climate change. But is a national loss and damage fund needed instead?

Experiments show larval cod will orient themselves toward the simulated sound of a turbine.

The endangered whales roam waters off British Columbia and the U.S. northwest. Their dwindling population sits at 73, according to data from the American Marine Mammal Commission.