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Quentin de Becker doesn't go anywhere without his coffee travel mug. As a member of an environmental advocacy group, it would be a bad look to order coffee in a disposable cup. But it wasn't always easy to persuade cafes and restaurants to fill his mug.

First Nations from across Vancouver Island are gathering this week to celebrate and strengthen traditional food sovereignty and deepen Indigenous communities' response to climate impacts and other emergencies. 

The seas are rising and coastal land is subsiding. That could expose hundreds of thousands of additional Americans to inundation by 2050.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s motion of non-confidence over the federal carbon price likely won’t topple the government, but it doesn’t have to serve the Conservative party agenda, political experts say.

Construction on Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ radioactive waste disposal facility won’t jeopardize the recovery of endangered turtle and bat populations, according to the federal government.

Music Declares Emergency is a U.K.-based international not-for-profit corporation comprising musicians, music industry professionals and organizations that have banded together to call for immediate government action on climate change.

The minority Liberals are facing increasing political pressure on their signature climate policy, as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre triggers a no confidence vote in the House of Commons. 

Under the proposed deal, the province would receive an additional $900 million a year over 10 years for health care.

The move by the company that makes vehicles for Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep was seen as a boost to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's ambitious policies to curtail global warming.

Parks Canada is closing all bodies of water in British Columbia's Kootenay and Yoho national parks, and restricting watercraft in Alberta's Waterton Lakes National Park in an effort to slow the spread of invasive species.

Officials say more than 900 people offered their condolences to Mulroney's family on Tuesday. 

Among the possibilities are "more responsive" police service models that could involve closer integration of the RCMP and community social services, say internal Public Safety Canada notes.

A new scientific endeavour has taken to the sky using high-tech drones and satellite images to understand better the annual spring herring spawn vital to salmon and wildlife on the West Coast. 

The Conservative leader has the federal Liberals in his crosshairs over a scheduled increase to the carbon price, upping the pressure Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government is dealing with across the country.

It’s lovely to think there are vast sources of continuously produced clean hydrogen from chemical reactions of water on hot rocks within the Earth, ready to be tapped as a clean energy source and solve the world’s energy problems. A great story, but it’s likely too good to be true.