forests

The mayor of Burnaby, B.C., says he met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss his concerns about the risk of a fire at a tank farm in his city, which would be the terminus of an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline.

Border Security Minister Bill Blair says he is talking to lawmakers in the United States about closing a loophole in Canada's border agreement with the U.S. — one seen as giving asylum-seekers reason to cross into Canada through fields and forests.

Before descending the Cascade Mountains on its final stretch to Seattle, Interstate 90 cuts through a mountain pass of old growth forests and wetlands.

The Petawawa Research Forest marks its 100-year anniversary this year. Canada’s oldest continuously-operating research forest holds clues on how climate change will affect forests in the century to come.

Irena Creed, a Canadian biology professor and executive director of the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan, co-chaired a 19-member panel that compiled evidence showing how the health of the planet’s forests is intricately tied to the safeguarding of sustainable access to water.

By mid century, parts of Canada’s 270-million hectares of boreal forest that purifies water and air, regulates the climate and stores carbon will be at heightened risk of devastating fires like the one seen in Fort McMurray.

Empowered by fossil fuel–driven technology, a rapidly growing human population and an insatiable demand for constant growth, our species is responsible for the calamitous consequences.

Fast-moving wildfire.s in British Columbia are posing serious challenges for crews fighting to keep the flames from more than a dozen communities, officials said on Sunday.

British Columbia has been so successful at putting out wildfires in recent decades that its forests are more prone to flames, says an expert.

A pristine section of forest that was once owned by a famous 19th century Quebec politician will become a conservation area, a nature group announced on Monday, June 5, 2017.

It's a beautiful story of struggle and success, at least for the time being.

Over the last three decades kelp biomass has dropped by 85 to 99 per cent in areas that stretch along 110 kilometres of coastline.

A panel in New York City on the importance of tropical forests in combatting climate change heard of the dangers Indigenous people face as they try and act as stewards of the land

First Nation warns that logging would worsen decades-old mercury contamination crisis on their land, applies for judicial review against both the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of th