Japan's new prime minister on Sunday, October 17, 2021, said the planned mass disposal of wastewater stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant cannot be delayed, despite concerns from local residents.
Investigators believe a 1,200-foot (366-meter) cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline with crude.
Celebrities joined Prince William in London on Sunday, October 17, 2021, for the inaugural awards ceremony of his Earthshot Prize, an ambitious environmental program that aims to find new ideas and technologies around the world to tackle climate change and Earth's most pressing challenges.
When staff at Iqaluit's Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre learned water from the city's distribution pipes wasn't safe to drink they knew some people would have no access to water.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to visit the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc Nation announced it had found what are believed to be some 200 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school last spring.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, October 18, 2021, will highlight the problems caused by Western drought and make the case for the Biden administration's infrastructure and climate change proposals that have stalled in Congress.
The Federal Court battle over a proposed coal mine expansion comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison battles to persuade his conservative government colleagues to commit to a zero emissions target for Australia by 2050.
One in five Canadian students moving from high school to university are dealing with food insecurity, a recent study found, a stress its author says puts those undergrads at risk of languishing from the start or ultimately dropping out.
Environmental groups are calling on the federal government to step in after oilsands tailing ponds grew by 90 million cubic metres in 2020 despite a drop in oil production, according to a report released last week by the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER).
Lauren MacDonald, a young climate activist, had waited patiently for her turn to speak. When it came, the picture she painted of the oil giant told a much different story than the one Ben van Beurden had described moments before.
Quebec's decision to delay its vaccine mandate deadline for health-care workers is a sign of the tough choices other provinces will face as they attempt to implement similar policies, experts and advocates say.