Nova Scotia

United Churches are on a carbon-cutting mission thanks to Faithful Footprints, a funding stream that helps churches cut their GHG emissions through retrofits.

A new study by Environmental Defence and Équiterre lays out how Canada can double public transit ridership by 2035, reducing GHGs by 65 million tons between 2024 and 2035: the equivalent of the annual emissions from 20 million cars.

The opposition and environmental activists criticized the strategy after Environment Minister Tim Halman confirmed that the Progressive Conservative government would not put into force the Coastal Protection Act, which was passed in 2019 by the Liberals with support from all parties in the legislature.

Volunteers have protected and promoted the Cape Breton estuary for over a decade — which is good news for the planet.

Natural Resources Minister Tory Rushton made the announcement on Friday, shortly after the two-member Clean Electricity Task Force released its report calling for the creation two new entities: an independent operator to control energy system planning, and an independent energy regulator.

Aiming to protect and restore forests, and maintain local ownership of the land, Growing Forests has already raised $750,000 from 75 small investors, and the company has purchased roughly 900 acres of forest from woodlot owners.

The Nova Scotia community of Mahone Bay devised a creative way to combat climate challenges.

Cleanup in Nova Scotia could take days after more than a metre of snow piled up in some parts of the province over the weekend.

Nova Scotians already buried under as much as 80 centimetres of snow hunkered down and braced for even more on Sunday as a powerful storm hovering over the province was poised to linger well into a third day.

The plan, if approved by the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board, would lower the anticipated 2024 rate increase to 1.1 per cent, said Natural Resources and Renewables Minister Tory Rushton.

Ottawa is upgrading climate "comfort" centres in Nova Scotia to provide people with beds, medical supplies and generators when natural disasters strike. Climate advocates want to see much more done to prepare.

Since the 1970s, Zoe Lucas has been travelling to a sandbar more than 300 kilometres off the coast of Nova Scotia. This tiny spot called Sable Island is best known for its wild horse population and 300-plus shipwrecks since the 16th century.

Justice Minister Arif Virani says the government is weighing its options as the March deadline looms. The first step, he says, will be to see what members of Parliament and senators recommend after committee hearings that probed the issue this past fall.

On Monday, Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and Nova Scotia’s Minister of Natural Resources and Renewables Tory Rushton put out a joint statement announcing their decision to reject the $1.5-million bid from Inceptio Limited, a Scotland-based company.

Health Canada has called the opioid crisis one of the most serious public health threats in recent history, and an addictions specialist says everyone can play a part in helping reduce the death toll. All it takes is access to naloxone, a life-saving medication that temporarily reverses an opioid overdose.