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The federal government is searching for a dozen young people to sit on the Environment and Climate Change Youth Council for the next two years.

With two LEED Platinum-certified buildings, Dalhousie University hopes to teach a new environmental lesson about saving energy.

On land fish farming is presented as an alternative to growing salmon in the ocean. Proponents point to it as a viable alternative since there is no contact between the farmed fish and wild species. However, salmon farmed in the ocean and on land face a mutual dilemma: the ecological toll of fish feed. A Nova Scotia company is working to change that.

Industry representatives have characterized the lawsuits as a “waste of taxpayer resources” and contended that climate change should be addressed by Congress, not the courts.

B.C. could soon become the first province to partially ban a group of cancer-causing chemicals used in everything from firefighting equipment to makeup. Tabled by BC Green MLA Adam Olsen, the proposed law would ban per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals in the firefighting equipment used by the province's professional and volunteer fire crews. 

Phil Pothen of Environmental Defence acknowledges the significance of funding the work of the Greenbelt Foundation. But $12 million is a minor gesture relative to the uncertainty created by the Ford government's attempts to remove land from the protected region, he said.

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Measles is making a comeback globally due to declining rates of routine childhood vaccinations, some due to missed appointments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

British Columbia introduced proposed legislation on Thursday that would allow it to sue for health-related costs over damages by companies like social-media giants and energy drink manufacturers whose products could cause harm.

As they marched through the streets in 2019, Ashley Torres and Louis Couillard did not expect a protest would alter the trajectory of their lives.

Critics are asking why the Alberta government's proposed regulations on renewable power seem to have ignored the conclusions of its own utilities regulator.

Some day, Katherine Festeryga plans to grow enough food to feed Canada’s largest city, using solar-powered greenhouses spread across existing warehouse rooftops.

Two separate climate-related shareholder resolutions are on the docket for Enbridge's upcoming annual meeting, and the gas giant really wants them to fail.

“The Manitoba government is paying a company to bulldoze a provincial park and bulldoze boreal caribou habitat,” said Eric Reder, director of The Wilderness Committee’s Manitoba field office.

A New York City bill — dubbed “Pods Are Plastic” — proposes a ban on dishwashing and laundry detergent pods coated in PVA, a type of plastic that disintegrates when submerged in water.