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Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has donated the nearly $4-billion company to a specially designed trust and a non-profit dedicated to protecting the environment, a decision designed to help the company put its profits toward environmental advocacy and stay in business. 

The federal government is sending contradictory messages around its commitment to transitioning away from open net-pen salmon farms in B.C. by permitting production increases at three aquaculture sites in Clayoquot Sound, say salmon conservation groups.

Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English.

The billionaire's donation is being put to work right away in three ecosystems, the Falling Creek Sanctuary, Teit's Sanctuary and Bourguiba Springs.

A 10-member delegation led by Nunavut Tunnagivik Inc., a group representing Nunavut Inuit, has been in Paris and Lyon this week to seek the extradition of Johannes Rivoire. 

Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is stepping down at the end of 2022 after nine years in charge, the energy giant said on Thursday, September 15, 2022, a change that comes as oil and natural gas companies are under pressure to shift away from fossil fuels even as they see soaring profits from energy price s driven up by Russia's war in Ukraine.

A newly released ranking of the Toronto Stock Exchange's top performers shows just how dominant Canadian oil and gas stocks have been in 2022 thanks to surging global energy demand and sky-high commodity prices.

British Columbia's provincial health officer says the findings of a study she co-authored showing children and youth have had the highest rates of COVID-19 in parts of the province should not be interpreted to suggest those infections occurred mostly in schools.

A new academic analysis has identified at least 75 foreign digital operations of a malicious political or industrial nature directed at Canada since 2010 – from attempts to steal COVID-19-related research to the targeting of Uyghur human rights activists.

A member of Parliament who quit the Conservative caucus says Pierre Poilievre's office sent a text message to party members in his Quebec riding asking them to encourage him to resign.

A bay-breasted warbler weighs about the same as four pennies, but twice a year makes an extraordinary journey. The tiny songbird flies nearly 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) between Canada's spruce forests and its wintering grounds in northern South America.

Samsung Electronics is shifting away from fossil fuels and aiming to entirely power its global operations with clean electricity by 2050, a challenging goal that experts say could be hampered by South Korea’s modest climate change commitments.

The first of two French-language leaders debates during the Quebec election campaign takes place in Montreal on Thursday, September 15, 2022, night, and it will be the first contest as party leader for four of the five participants.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said King Charles III continuing to advocate for climate change action in his new apolitical role as monarch would be “perfectly acceptable.”

Days after signing a landmark $2.5-billion deal with the provinces and territories to subsidize Canada's farmers, the federal agriculture minister says she was betrayed by a cadre of conservative premiers.