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Ottawa wants to know what it would take to convince Canadians to take climate-friendly action and has designed a research unit to uncover the best ways to motivate people to change.

The Cowichan Tribes reserve on Vancouver Island is one of the top five Indigenous communities across Canada identified as a hot spot of flood risk in a recent study.

The federal government is spending another $30 million to help people at risk of going hungry.

University of Calgary paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky had seen well-preserved dinosaur egg fossils before, but nothing like this.

Chief government whip Steven MacKinnon issued a statement Wednesday saying he is "profoundly disappointed" that Liberal MP Yves Robillard travelled outside Canada, in contravention of party instructions. 

Canada's federal government offered a lifeline to businesses struggling amid the latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic by expanding eligibility for two benefit programs.

Canadians using the Access to Information Act have voiced concerns about excessive delays in producing government records and even a “culture of secrecy.”

Despite the fact that South Africa raised the alarm about the highly transmissible variant nearly one month ago, local public health agencies have found themselves unable to provide tests for the high number of suspected COVID-19 cases in their areas.

Now he's heading into the first full year of his third mandate faced with what public health experts fear will be the worst wave yet of the pandemic, fuelled by the highly contagious Omicron variant.

New research echoes long-standing Indigenous knowledge about the importance of carbon-storing peatlands.

Someone's bound to hack the atmosphere to cool the planet. So we urgently need more research on the consequences, says climate scientist Kate Ricke.

Natural Resources Canada is tweaking its onshore emissions reduction fund in the wake of scathing reports from the federal climate watchdog that found the program amounted to little more than a fossil fuel subsidy.

U.S. officials announced approval on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, of two large-scale solar projects in California and moved to open up public lands in other Western states to potential solar power development, as part of the Biden administration’s effort to counter climate change by shifting from fossil fuels.

Health professionals and provincial governments are drawing up battle plans to curb the spread of COVID-19 by bringing back restrictions, while speeding up booster doses as the highly transmissible Omicron variant washes over the country.

Mercury contamination in freshwater fish populations falls quickly once new sources of the toxic chemical are cut off, says new research.