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Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end this past July as the natural El Nino climate pattern ebbed, the European climate agency Copernicus announced on Wednesday.

More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal government is funding a study to do just that.

For two Inuit grandmas, rap was always for the younger generations until it wasn’t.

The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained.

A new study from McGill University shows UFPs — primarily from vehicle emissions and industrial activities — are linked to approximately 1,100 premature deaths each year in Toronto and Montreal. About 600 of those fatalities occur in Toronto alone.

Experts express concern that salvage logging has no ecological benefit, contradicts B.C.’s promise to prioritize ecosystem health over timber, and the process should be reconsidered. 

Fossil fuel companies are pressuring the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board to weaken proposed rules to report on greenhouse gas emissions, threatening the country's ability to attract investment as the energy transition unfolds.

The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.

Health Minister Mark Holland is expected to provide an update on the federal government's dental-care program today.

The second woman to publicly accuse Alice Munro’s late husband of targeting her sexually when she was a child says she hopes her story will encourage parents to believe their children.

High waters that flowed over top of a massive landslide in British Columbia's Chilcotin River are churning in the Fraser River towards British Columbia's Lower Mainland today.

For every bottle collected along B.C.'s shorelines, it seems like there are five more buried beneath driftwood and sand — but neither the hard work nor the limited budget deters crews from their marine debris removal efforts.

Citizen scientists partner with the Ministry of Forests and VIU to understand how climate change is hitting Vancouver Island’s forests and plant species.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Hinton, Alta., to get a briefing on the status of the Jasper wildfire, as well as meet with the province's premier and evacuees who fled the blaze that destroyed a third of the town.

Connie Chapman with the province's water management branch says the pulse of water after the dam breached yesterday morning will make its way toward the Fraser River, and modelling shows it will reach the community of Hope sometime today.