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Inuit-led conservation received a boost on Wednesday, with the federal government announcing about $3 million towards programs that will fund data collection efforts on how climate change is affecting land, water and sea ice.

Gas companies in two of Canada's largest provinces are relying on reports with erroneous numbers and deleted information that make natural gas appear more sustainable and cost-effective than it actually is.

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada has announced funding to aid public participation in its assessment of Ontario's plan to open up protected Greenbelt lands near a national urban park for development.

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles is asking the province's integrity commissioner to consider within his Greenbelt investigation the premier and government staffers' reported use of personal phones and emails.

As high temperature records fall across southern British Columbia, a wildlife rescue group is warning of the heat risks for animals.

Federal officials worried long-promised legislation declaring First Nations policing an essential service was being delayed by Assembly of First Nations hesitations about the bill, newly released internal documents show.

Firefighters will be watching the skies over the next couple of days hoping for help from Mother Nature as wildfires along the Alberta-Northwest Territories boundary continue to force evacuations.

When Nicky Fried and her husband arrived in Vancouver from South Africa more than 30 years ago, they didn't need an air conditioner.

Montreal researchers are joining an international study to learn more about a little-understood genetic disease that is found in Canada, and especially in Quebec and in Acadian regions of the Maritimes.

While scorching temperatures were expected to reach their climax on Tuesday, August 15, 2023, in a prolonged heat wave in southern British Columbia, the BC Wildfire Service says the greatest wildfire risk won't come until later this week.

Survivors of deadly wildfires on Maui contended with intermittent power and unreliable cell service as they sought help rebuilding their lives. Experts, meanwhile, labored to find the dead and identify them.

Young climate activists’ recent legal victory in a Montana court case shows “climate litigation is progressing in a good direction all over the continent,” according to a young Canadian fighting a similar legal battle in Ontario’s Court of Appeal.

The proposed construction of a private spa on what is now a popular picnic and park area on Toronto’s West Island waterfront has drawn the ire of passionate volunteers from a group called Ontario Place for All. The group is holding a rally tonight to publicly voice dissatisfaction over the deal.

Approaching his two-year anniversary on the job, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is hoping he’s found a new ally in the fight against climate change: China. An upcoming trip to Beijing will test that theory.

Research shows that cutting carbon emissions offers more than an abstract, long-term, far-ranging result. It can actually save lives, almost immediately.