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A Nova Scotia biologist battled his former provincial colleagues to protect the province's mainland moose from extinction — and he may have succeeded.

Climate and forestry researchers say Nova Scotia must act swiftly to prepare for future wildfires in the province's increasingly vulnerable forests.

When it comes to industrial logging emissions in Canada, policymakers — and the public — are largely in the dark.

Throughout the study, nine bird species declined at a rate of 30 per cent or more over the past 10 years, which meets the qualification for an animal to be considered “threatened” under the Canadian endangered species legislation.

Although the majestic animals were once plentiful in Nova Scotia, the species’ numbers have dwindled due to forestry, poaching and disease.

B.C. holds tremendous potential for true climate leadership. But only if we are willing to change our relationship with each other and the land, writes climate justice advocate Anjali Appadurai.

Clear-cutting old-growth forests to produce wood pellets to replace fossil fuels in electricity generation would release more carbon into the atmosphere than it would save “for many decades,” according to a new scientific study.