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A global agency that sets rules for the seas is studying the environmental effects of more and more rocket stages that may contain toxic fuel dropping into the world's oceans.

Doug Ford’s Ontario government faces legal challenges on two fronts this week, with environmental groups wanting the cancellation of the province’s climate change strategy deemed illegal and the elementary teachers’ union and others targeting its regression to a 1998 sex-education curriculum.

For those among us whose life experiences thread across borders, climate change weighs heavily on our hearts because of its familiar human face: family, friends, colleagues.

Canada's environment ministers want to cut in half the amount of garbage this country produces, in a little over two decades.

Premier Doug Ford's government has decided to consult Ontarians about its climate change policies, one day after it was taken to court for "unlawfully" scrapping action to reduce carbon pollution.

Greenpeace is suing the premier for “unlawfully” neglecting to consult the people of Ontario when he tabled legislation to formally repeal the province’s carbon emission rules.

Twelve activists on Tuesday launched an aerial blockade at the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge in Vancouver to stop an oil tanker from leaving the pipeline's terminal.

Greenpeace International co-executive director Jennifer Morgan wants to see Canada take a new path when it comes to fossil fuels: reject all new oil and gas infrastructure, scrap all subsidies to the industry and commit to a long-term plan that shifts to renewable energy sources.

An industry ad to amplify pro-pipeline perspectives is just one example of how the online conversation around the troubled Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion is, increasingly, being pushed to its edges by actors on both sides of the debate. Casual opinion polls and social media platforms are open battlegrounds as messages spread quickly and debate become increasingly polarized.

Four protesters, including Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace International, zip-tied themselves to the fence and criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate policy. They were arrested later that day.

TransCanada Corp. is offloading its only solar power holdings in a $540-million deal as it moves against the industry trend of investing more in renewables.

Judge Jon Tigar wrote that the defendants' speech "constituted the expression of opinion, or different viewpoints that are a vital part of our democracy."

The National Energy Board has issued a stern warning to the company building a major west coast pipeline expansion about apparent violations of federal law.

Greenpeace Canada still faces a defamation lawsuit launched by Resolute Forest Products in an Ontario court. But newly-released documents reveal the political chess game underway behind the scenes.

The United Nations climate panel has announced plans to put human behaviour and consumption under the microscope for the first time since it was created in 1988.