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Canada and nearly 200 other countries around the world now have eight years to set aside almost one-third of their land and marine territories for conservation under a landmark new biodiversity deal reached in Montreal on Monday, December 19, 2022.

Melissa Daniels is from Fort Chipewyan, an 850-person roadless hamlet in northern Alberta. It's the land her people have lived on for time immemorial, and the place her relatives and friends call home. Yet, despite her love for her home community, she doesn't live there. The settlement is directly downstream from the tarsands, which has contaminated the hamlet and nearby forests with chemicals.

Artist Siobhán McDonald will turn the recordings into an acoustic installation exploring humanity’s impact on the ocean.

Industry associations are fighting government regulations forcing them to meet their green pledges. Canadians are ready to make this shift — automakers are holding us back.

Several major plastic manufacturers have turned to the courts to stop the federal government from implementing a ban on several single-use plastic items.

The impact of mining on key salmon watersheds in northwestern Canada and the U.S. is impossible to gauge because of a lack of transparency and access to data, a cross-border study finds.

A meeting of Canada's agriculture ministers later this month could be pivotal in the fight against climate change, according to a national coalition of farmers.

A new United Nations-backed report says that overexploitation, climate change, pollution and deforestation are pushing one million species towards extinction.

Extracting the chemical used in fertilizers from waste rather than mining it could also help reduce pollution, according to a new report.

Billions of birds are disappearing because of humanity’s impact on the Earth, a global review finds.

The area saw a close race in 2018 when NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa only beat his Progressive Conservative competitor by 1,467 votes.

Emissions of over 40 highly toxic chemicals in Ontario, Alberta and Quebec have significantly increased in recent decades, potentially exposing millions of Canadians to harmful groundwater and air pollution, a new analysis shows.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he wants to make it easier for more Canadians to drive electric vehicles and he isn't ruling out nuclear power as a cleaner source of energy.

Strong measures by Europe could quickly deprive Russia of oil and gas income worth billions, experts say.

Revised government data estimates a lower proportion of pollution comes from wood stoves but they remain a "major contributor."