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After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate summit on Wednesday finished up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine.

“There's all sorts of reasons why it's challenging for governments to deliver on commitments, so that's the person who ultimately is cracking the whip, saying we've got to get this done faster," says former federal environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna.

The funding helps 15 coastal First Nations conserve B.C.'s ‘Galapagos of the North’ and move forward with a network of marine conservation areas that spans two-thirds of Canada's West Coast.

Scientists are turning to a low-cost radio-based technology to help solve the mysteries of declining bird populations.

Ottawa continues to underinvest in disaster preparedness and mitigation on First Nations despite ballooning recovery costs from the worst wildfire season on record, according to documents shared with Canada’s National Observer.

“Young people want to get involved. They want to fight the climate crisis first-hand, and they deserve training and good jobs in the process, which is what New Democrats want to see happen,” said Laurel Collins, NDP environment critic, at a news conference in Ottawa announcing support for the youth corps concept.

On Monday, Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and Nova Scotia’s Minister of Natural Resources and Renewables Tory Rushton put out a joint statement announcing their decision to reject the $1.5-million bid from Inceptio Limited, a Scotland-based company.

After days of shaving off the edges of key warming issues, climate negotiators zeroed in on the tough job of dealing with the main cause of what's overheating the planet: fossil fuels.

Over the last two years, François Nadeau has chosen to do something rare among his fellow Quebec pork farmers: invest in the future.

Britain's polar research ship has crossed paths with the largest iceberg in the world — a “lucky” encounter that enabled scientists to collect seawater samples around the colossal berg as it drifts out of Antarctic waters, the British Antarctic Survey said.

An Indigenous elder sits at a table telling a Blackfoot story about the Frank Slide in southern Alberta's Crowsnest Pass.

The United Nations weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic ice sheet lost 75 percent more compared to the previous ten years, as it released its latest stark report about the fallout on the planet from climate change.

Hundreds of residents of two municipalities in Quebec's Laurentians region have been ordered to leave their homes because of the risk a nearby dike could burst.

Don’t trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution, said former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who added that the man leading the United Nations climate talks runs one of the “dirtiest” oil companies out there.

Canada set a high bar globally when the country announced new standards Monday to crack down on planet-warming methane emissions, say observers.