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Premier Doug Ford's decision to reappoint Steve Clark to a key government role has been met with significant criticism from other political leaders and environmental groups.

Replacement legislation for the Harper era Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act has been passed by the House through a unanimous motion and is now being considered by the Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee.

The transition between El Niño and La Niña this summer is expected to bring with it a substantial amount of climatic chaos because of pre-existing conditions caused by climate change.

The two companies will each receive $5 million from the federal government to help finance the development of new technologies designed to recover valuable nickel, cobalt, copper and other minerals from the “black mass” of shredded flat batteries.

A Calgary energy company has been ordered to abandon close to 2,000 wells, pipeline sections and other facilities over concerns about care and maintenance of the sites. But questions remain about whether Tallahassee Exploration will be able to pay for the multimillion-dollar reclamation plan the provincial regulator has ordered the company to submit.

The Liberals support an effort to have the foreign interference inquiry investigate allegations against MPs, Democratic Institutions Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Monday. 

Founded in 1992 as a response to the toxic Sydney tar ponds, the Atlantic Coastal Action Program has dedicated itself to sustaining and restoring watersheds and building habitat for the wildlife that thrives there. Their work is yielding results.

Nearly three months into his fast, Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick says he won’t eat until the German government acknowledges the severity of the climate crisis and the world’s failure to address it. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shows no inclination of doing that.

The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world's waters for the first time ever, the United Nations reported Friday.

A delegation of people whose lives have been impacted by climate change came together to speak to their experiences at a press conference in the House of Commons on Thursday.

The pollution from B.C. mining operations respects no borders and is having a spillover into Alaskan Indigenous land, threatening their way of life and sovereign rights.

Only 7.2 per cent of Canada's land mass is arable, with high-quality soils that can support produce even rarer still. So why haven't governments taken steps to protect those lands?

Oil and gas companies are making record breaking profits, but failing to invest in meaningful decarbonization. On Thursday, the House of Commons environment committee took their executives to task.

Canadian federal, provincial and territorial forest ministers have signed on to a national strategy that they say aims to raise awareness of wildfire risks across the country — and expects half of all Canadians to be acting in response to climate change.

Building better dykes to prevent flooding, constructing fire breaks to slow wildfires, and creating more cooling centres for people — these projects could be among those to soon benefit from over half a billion dollars in funding provided by the federal government this week to help Canadian communities adapt to climate change.