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The city is tagging on to a larger campaign, Sue Big Oil, which is a collection of local governments across British Columbia banding together for a class action lawsuit, arguing fossil fuel companies should help municipalities recoup climate-related costs.

“It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in the new listing. “This is one of the most recognizable butterflies in the world.”

Canada joined forces on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, with the United States in a bilateral effort to push back against what they consider protectionist energy policies in Mexico that violate both the spirit and the letter of North America's new trade rules.

Federal Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest is pressing the party to decide whether it will hold a third debate for contenders seeking the top job.

Hockey Canada says it will no longer use a fund maintained by membership fees collected across the country to settle sexual assault claims.

Susan Enge will be thinking of her mother’s time in a residential school during the long journey south from the Northwest Territories to see Pope Francis in Alberta.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, announced modest new steps to combat climate change and promised more robust action to come, saying, “This is an emergency and I will look at it that way.”

Experts say sending emergency alerts during extreme heat events could save lives, but a multi−faceted approach to warning the public is needed in order to reach the most vulnerable residents and help them take action.

Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday, July 21, 2022, after a 10−day shutdown for maintenance — but the gas flow remained well short of full capacity and the outlook was uncertain, which leaves Europe still facing the prospect of a hard winter.

Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for a number of provinces, with temperatures expected to reach or surpass 30 C over the coming days.

Some First Nations on B.C.’s central coast are celebrating now that black bear hunting in their territories is closed to protect the exceptional cream-coloured spirit bears concentrated there.

Export Development Canada is tapping a former Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers president to advise on sustainable investing.

Canada’s young people are less likely than older folks to vote and more likely to engage in political discussion and action, Statistics Canada says, while almost one in five people aged 15 to 30 provides long-term care to a family member or friends.

Divisive ideas such as keeping nuclear plants open and regulating the Autobahn are now gaining traction.

Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed public rainforests equal the size of El Salvador over the past six years, yet the Federal Police — the Brazilian version of the FBI — carried out only seven operations aimed at this massive loss, according to a new study.