Environment and Climate Change Canada

Pangnirtung mayor Eric Lawlor couldn't see out his windows on Sunday, December 27, 2020. That's when a record-breaking blizzard hit the Baffin Island community of about 1,500, shaking houses and crushing cabins.

A tornado that killed two teens when it threw their vehicle more than a kilometre into a Manitoba farm field surprised even those in the area who are accustomed to violent weather, as well as a stormchaser, with its destructive strength.

Alberta has announced there will be a sandhill crane hunting season this fall — a hunt that's been opposed by an environmental group and was previously rejected by the provincial government three times.

Most major Canadian cities saw drastic improvements in air quality over the last two months as COVID-19 kept people at home instead of on the roads.

German auto giant Volkswagen appears ready to strike a plea deal with Canada after being charged on Monday, December 9, 2019, for allegedly importing cars into this country that company executives knew violated emissions standards.

Provincial Fisheries Minister Gerry Byrne says an independent review will be carried out after a mass die-off at a southern Newfoundland salmon farm as the government looks at changing its aquaculture regulations.

More than one in four birds have been lost across diverse groups and habitats, in what researchers describe as a ‘wake-up call’

Massachusetts' attorney general is calling on political leaders in the United States and Canada to take stronger measures to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whales.

For years, fishermen off the U.S. east coast have faced tight restrictions on fishing gear and vessel speed restrictions to ensure their activities do not harm marine mammals, including the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

The nation will receive $3.9 million to help create conservation areas and establish a land-use planning process.

An environmentalist who monitors the Ottawa River says he's skeptical of the Quebec government's contention that a local hydro dam is to blame for the deaths of thousands of fish near the national capital because the province won't say how it reached that conclusion.

The party supports a federal task force’s recommendations to help coal workers find new work, but they also want the same for oil and gas workers.

Several hundred Canadian millennials planned to rally in at least 30 cities across the country on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, demanding a federal leaders' debate on climate change.

Canadian wildlife enforcement officers have seized dozens of black-bear parts, diet pills made from endangered African plants and the bodies of two scaly anteaters as part of an international blitz targeting smugglers and poachers, Environment and Climate Change Canada says.