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The potential lies in geothermal: heat generated by the Earth, which can be harnessed in a variety of ways. While in operation, underground coal mines are dewatered to allow for workers to extract coal. When a mine is not maintained, it naturally floods with surface and groundwater: which can be used for geothermal.

A report from the B.C. branch of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says a leaked map suggests the province has approved a pause for logging in less than half of the old-growth forests identified as being at risk of permanent biodiversity loss.

Joly says Iranian women and girls face an increasingly repressive environment where they risk injury or death for expressing themselves or demanding basic rights.

Residents in Ottawa are still reeling after a mass stabbing that killed a mother, her four young children and a family friend.

Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks.

Blood spattered the sidewalk on Thursday outside a suburban Ottawa home where police recovered the bodies of a mother, her four young children and a family friend from the aftermath of a vicious attack.

Clean Foundation pilots Flood Retrofit Program in two municipalities.

The Texas city’s housing-first approach has been widely lauded for tackling chronic homelessness. Can we learn from its model?

Ottawa will provide over $15 million to assist First Nations and Indigenous groups considering mining deals on their ancestral lands.

Researchers in Italy examined fatty plaques removed from the blood vessels of patients with arterial disease and found that more than half had deposits contaminated with tiny particles of plastic.

Suncor said it is in the process of conducting early-stage technical and commercial feasibility assessments to determine the quality and quantity of mineable bitumen ore in the area, which is located within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in northern Alberta and on the Fort McKay First Nation's traditional territory.

Across British Columbia's south coast, gardeners are finding dead or damaged plants due to the cold snap that sent temperatures plunging to -13.7 C in Richmond. As spring nears, hydrangeas are bare of buds and evergreens are losing their foliage.

For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.

"I can't continue to be the only voice speaking up against antisemitism and Jew hatred," said Robinson. "All of this has made Jewish people feel unsafe and I have shared all of this with the premier's office over the last five months and I continue to be the only one who is saying we have to do something differently."

An Ontario town is mourning a family of five who died in a Nashville plane crash earlier this week.