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When UBC food safety researcher Tianxi Yang became a mother, she wondered how much microplastic her son would ingest when drinking milk out of widely available plastic containers.

Groups say the B.C. Coastal Marine Strategy should be the first step toward a law to protect coastal habitats from shoreline development, but similar attempts out east have not gone to plan.

Van Bergeijk joined a crowd of more than 300 protesters outside the Township of Wilmot council meeting on Monday, demanding an immediate halt to the expropriation of 311 hectares of farmland. They argue that this “forced acquisition” by the Region of Waterloo would have a devastating impact on Ontario's food security, farmers' livelihoods and the environmental health of the community.

Renewable energy is already well on the way. Now, researchers on the East Coast are turning their attention to increasingly complex energy storage solutions to empower wind, solar and geothermal to help it truly supplant fossil fuels.

Across the world, farmers are turning waste biomass into biochar, which can be used to improve their soils, boost the yields of their crops and create a new source of income — all while sequestering carbon.

A union representing McGill University law professors said its members walked off the job on Monday, the first week of classes for the fall semester, over what it described as the school's anti-union tactics and refusal to negotiate in good faith.

At least 91 candidates will be on the ballot for the Sept. 16 byelection in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, according to Elections Canada. Seventy-nine of them are linked to the Longest Ballot Committee, a group protesting Canada’s first-past-the-post voting system.

Canada-U.S. relations will take centre stage today as the federal cabinet wraps up the third and final day of its annual summer retreat.

Clean transportation advocates say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to slap Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers with new tariffs will slow the adoption of electric vehicle sales in Canada, jeopardizing climate goals and making it more expensive for consumers.

In the final episode of Slick Science, we learn how corporations like Exxon fight back with research they fund.

A long-overdue federal strategy to tackle ocean noise is here at last — but some advocates say it falls short of what’s needed to protect species from the ever-increasing shipping traffic in Canadian waters.

The International Court of Justice's deliberations will lead to non-binding opinions, but they're still anticipated to have considerable impact on international climate change negotiations.

If the U.S. adopted a national flexitarian diet, researchers say it would reduce the footprint of farmland across the country by roughly the size of South Dakota — freeing that land for efforts that improve carbon sequestration and biodiversity.

On Monday morning, a grassroots activist blocked a road leading to a work camp in Nisga’a territory that will support the construction of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline (PRGT).

The group's current president, Laurie Pushor, announced last week that he wouldn't seek a new contract after his current term expires next April.