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Legislation of the sort being pursued by Vermont and others won’t repair all of the damage wrought by climate change or stop pollution on its own, but such laws could provide remediation funding for communities that don’t have much money to go around.

Despite worries artificial intelligence lacks empathy and could be coming to steal their jobs, a growing number of Canadians are turning to AI tools, a new poll suggests.

The Green Party says that as it works toward officially adopting a co-leadership model, it will keep in place two existing deputy leader positions.

B.C.'s snowpack is 40 per cent below normal spurring action by watershed groups to buffer the rising risk of another extensive summer drought.

Canadian vehicles are turning up in places like Ghana and Nigeria, with one particular family having their SUV stolen on three separate occasions.

California already bans thin plastic shopping bags at grocery stores and other shops, but shoppers at checkout can purchase bags made with a thicker plastic that purportedly makes them reusable and recyclable.

Forget Trader Joe's. Some observers say Canadian grocery co-ops are a better climate-friendly community alternative to big foreign chains.

This fall, the University of Ottawa will launch its Nidjìnawendàganag Living and Learning Community to support First Nations, Inuit and Métis students.

Just a stone’s throw from Winnipeg, Sio Silica has announced plans to drill thousands of holes through two aquifers over the next two decades for what it claims will be “the greenest sand mine in the world.”

“If you’re going to develop energy in the U.S., you’ve got to do it with the support of tribal communities."

The case filed by Kebaowek First Nation this week argues the approval should be set aside or reconsidered and sets the stage for a legal test of how much sway the United Nations Declaration Act holds in Canadian courts.

The new chief of the World Meteorological Organization said it looks to her that the rate of human-caused climate change is accelerating and that warming has triggered more Arctic cold outbreaks in North America and Europe, weighing in on two issues that divide climate scientists.

Sunshine Tenasco, an entrepreneur from Kitigan Zibi, founded a pitch competition to bring funding and visibility to Indigenous entrepreneurs.

The world’s groundwater aquifers are taking a beating. Decades of unrestrained pumping by thirsty farms and fast-growing cities have drained these underground rock beds, which hold more than 95 per cent of the planet’s drinkable water.

Watershed experts worried that critically low snowpacks signal more severe droughts this summer want the province to act early to deal with water shortages before they reach crisis levels.