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The ice cream giant has signed onto an open letter detailing allegations against the Community-Industry Response Group — also known as the "pipeline police" — and urging Canada, British Columbia and the RCMP to suspend all of its activities.

Underwater forests represent an average of $500 billion annually in benefits to commercial fisheries, ocean pollution removal and carbon absorption, a new international study shows.

Doug Tallamy, the wildlife ecologist and entomologist who urges home gardeners to join forces and create a pollinator-friendly “Homegrown National Park,” is now bringing kids into the effort.

The federal government has approved a contentious container port expansion project at Roberts Bank south of Vancouver, drawing swift condemnation from environmentalists.

The shíshálh Nation on the Sunshine Coast is the latest of several First Nations to announce results of their research into children who went missing while attending residential schools.

The job action taken by members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada could amount to a complete halt of the tax season, slowdowns at the border and pauses to new EI, immigration and passport applications.

The new numbers have been in development for months but come after a recent report from the parliamentary budget officer on the economic costs of the carbon price. That report did not specifically equate the cost of the price on carbon to the costs of climate change itself.

New Brunswick saw a six per cent rise in emissions, according to the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, which put out a provincial breakdown of the federal government’s National Inventory Report. That report, based on the most recent data available from 2021, is an analysis provided to the United Nations to show a country’s progress on reaching climate targets. 

Workers were fired up and eager to strike Wednesday after the federal government failed to reach an agreement with the country's largest federal public service union.

A tiny Hawaiian island is finally free of invasive rats. Now scientists are trying to coax back lost seabird colonies.

While Justice Marie-Andrée Vermette called the youths remarkable and was sympathetic to concerns about their future in light of scientific evidence on the impacts of climate change, she did not find Ontario's targets breached their Charter rights.

Alberta's United Conservative Party government released a climate plan Wednesday that it hopes will take the province to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 without offering many details, targets or new measures to get it there. 

The utility, Nova Scotia Power, hit around 32 per cent renewables between 2020 and 2022, but was mandated to achieve 40 per cent.

A new analysis is the most comprehensive look yet at the link between the neurological condition and exposure to PM2.5 — fine particles that are 2.5 microns wide or less released by wildfires, traffic, power plants, and other sources.

Nearly all the world's population could eat well from food produced within their countries’ borders — if countries wasted less food and ate less meat and sugar, researchers have found. In Canada, we would need less than a sixth of our farmland to feed everyone in the country a healthy and climate-friendly diet.