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Pesticides made from a class of cancer-causing toxic chemicals that never degrade are being used on Canadian crops despite global concerns about their impact on humans and the environment. 

Two broods of the noisy insect are expected to emerge simultaneously and for the first time in more than a decade in Illinois — an event that hasn't happened in more than two centuries.

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With a $75-million loan announced last week, BC Ferries will be purchasing its first four ships run only on electric propulsion power.

There are more than 2,600 landfills across the U.S., and collectively, they leak more than 280 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year — the equivalent of 74 coal-fired plants. So why are government regulations on the facilities so lax?

As residents in Ontario's Chemical Valley grapple with dangerously high levels of benzene, air monitoring data also reveals very high levels of sulphur dioxide that environmental advocates urge must be brought under control.

The federal government will assess the toxicity of a harmful compound in oilsands tailings after the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and environmental groups requested a review.

Landmark memorandum of understanding for Canada's first battery nickel processing facility between Wyloo and Sudbury brings First Nations to table '"from the outset" to forge a "missing piece" in the continent's EV supply chain.

A leaked letter says Saskatchewan Trade Minister Jeremy Harrison nearly triggered a security incident when he walked into the legislature in camouflage gear toting a long gun in a case.

The importance of a stable power grid was made clear to Ontarians who lost power for a day in a widespread cross-border blackout. The outage caused the loss of almost 19 million hours of work in Ontario alone and created a 0.7 per cent decline in Canadian GDP in a single month, according to Hydro Quebec.

Two years behind schedule, the world's richest nations have finally met a long-standing commitment to provide their developing countries with US$100 billion worth of financing to respond to the climate emergency. But with needs now reaching trillions of dollars, they will need to scale their investments even further.

Oil Change International graded the plans of eight major oil corporations and found all of them are failing to meet their much-publicized climate pledges — with American firms receiving "worst of the worst" reviews.

The Nova Scotia municipality’s retrofit programs make normally expensive retrofits far more attainable for homeowners while also lowering the carbon footprints of their homes.

Two individuals dressed in black approached Julie Dzerowicz' constituency office early on Tuesday morning and painted a threatening message, the MP says.

"We'd be very surprised, very surprised, if this didn't turn out overall as a warm summer," Chris Scott, the Weather Network's chief meteorologist, said in an interview.