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Only five per cent of the redwood forests that once stretched across coastal northern California have never been logged. An initiative to restore these forests is gaining momentum, aided by research showing that redwoods store more aboveground carbon than any forest on Earth.

Environmental Defence, represented by Ecojustice, is asking for a judicial review, stating the Ontario government failed to meet its legal obligations and respond adequately to a Freedom of Information request submitted in late 2022, reads a statement shared online by the group.

The pandemic fractured the global food chain, but Canadian consumers are still reliant on imported seafood while our high-quality products are exported overseas by the boatload, say experts at a UN Food Day event.

News that Arthur Irving is no longer in a leadership role at Irving Oil is yet another signal the business is shifting its corporate focus away from the fossil fuel, says a University of New Brunswick business professor.

Some First Nations asked Ontario to help them protect Earth's second-largest carbon sink. They say the provincial government ignored them.

Archeologists have uncovered thousands of artifacts, including a 7,500-year-old spear point, as they dig below what was Lytton, B.C., the village destroyed by fire in June 2021.

A TikTok executive faced off on Wednesday with Canadian lawmakers who have concerns that data from the app could end up in the hands of the Chinese government.

The officer who served as a go-between for "Freedom Convoy" organizer Chris Barber and police is expected to testify in his criminal trial.

In Myanmar, north of Yangon in Shwepyithar, nothing is growing faster than garbage. 

Fearful they will lose their small town vibes, some communities say no to solar.

On Wednesday, the Assembly of First Nations released its National Climate Strategy detailing a First Nations lens on the climate crisis that is more focused on language and cultural revitalization and the reciprocal relationship with the natural world.

Climate experts are applauding a new plan to shift off coal on the East Coast, but say New Brunswick’s contributions aren’t as clean or reliable as they should be.

Canada's pesticide agency failed to warn Canadians their sports fields, golf courses and vegetable farms could expose them to dangerous levels of a pesticide so toxic that American authorities published an unusual public warning in May about its threat. 

The United Nations human-rights chief says Canada can boost its chances of joining the council that monitors freedom around the world by better following up on the pledges it makes at home and abroad.

The board of the Canada Pension Plan says Alberta’s consultation with its citizens on quitting the CPP is not a straightforward fact-finding exercise but rather a biased manipulation of public opinion.