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After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it’s nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill on Friday, August 12, 2022, that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.

Poland has deployed soldiers to help clean up the Oder River, which runs along the border with Germany, after 10 tons of dead fish surfaced from the waterway in what one official described as an “ecological catastrophe.”

A break in the middle of the day can give us a chance to rest — as well as reduce our toll on the planet.

More than two dozen teenagers paddle down the Humber River — some in a canoe for the first time — as Monica Chander and Jacob Parliament from the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Wild Outside program help them develop their appreciation and knowledge of nature.

The Goldboro LNG project is set to liquify natural gas piped in from Alberta before it’s shipped off to Europe. Opponents argue the proposition needs more environmental scrutiny.

A new survey finds more Canadians report a strong attachment to their primary language than to other markers of identity, including the country they call home.

Hundreds of scientists and researchers are expected to gather on Parliament Hill today, August 11, 2022, to call for a raise.

On July 16, 1980, Dale Nancy Wyman left her Ottawa-area home with a suitcase full of her belongings, took a taxi to a Greyhound bus station and vanished. She didn't say where she was going and her family had no idea where to look.

Water levels on the Rhine River could reach a critically low point in the coming days, German officials said on Wednesday, August 10, 2022, making it increasingly difficult to transport goods — including coal and gasoline — as drought and an energy crisis grip Europe.

Africa’s national parks, home to thousands of wildlife species such as lions, elephants and buffaloes, are increasingly threatened by below−average rainfall and new infrastructure projects, stressing habitats and the species that rely on them.

Landfills are releasing a significant amount of planet−warming methane into the atmosphere from the decomposition of waste, a study suggests.

The short film The Black Case plays with traditional horror tropes to tell a horrific story of a residential school survivor.

At the same time, environmental groups have called for a moratorium on aquaculture expansion, pointing to the federal government’s commitment to phase out open net-pen fish farms in B.C. waters by 2025.

Water shortages across the continent, from France through Italy, Spain and beyond, are creating a critical situation.

Sky-high net earnings for Canada’s four biggest oil companies have renewed calls for a windfall tax that Ottawa shows no sign of adopting.