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The federal government has announced more than $50 million for research into marine and freshwater ecosystems across Canada.

The Green party’s parliamentary leader and MP for Saanich—Gulf Islands has raised the issue twice in the House of Commons and written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging him to protest the rules surrounding new U.S. navy tests, including torpedoes, sonar technology and underwater drones. 

Humans first caught the virus that causes COVID-19 from animals and research now suggests it could also be the other way around.

More than 450 long-finned pilot whales became stranded in harbour in Tasmania with rescuers managing to save about 50

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Expanded protections for endangered southern resident killer whales off British Columbia's coast focus on contaminants, noise, physical disturbances and accessibility of chinook salmon, the orca's primary prey.

An estimated 4m small cetaceans caught as by-catch in commercial tuna fishing nets since 1950, researchers say

Governments may have to rethink how they conserve ocean ecosystems as climate change forces marine animals from their usual homes, says newly published research.

A survey estimates more than 1.8 million pieces of garbage are strewn over the bottom of the Bay of Fundy, prompting concerns about potential harm to marine life.

For many, declining southern resident killer whales represent an age of human-caused climate change and extinction. For Coast Salish communities, it’s personal.

Ottawa says it will spend $8.3-million in an effort to rid Canadian waters of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear.

More endangered North Atlantic right whales are in trouble in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada says two more endangered North Atlantic right whales have been found dead in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Canadian and American scientists will study why an unusually high number of dead grey whales are washing ashore on the west coast.

Snow crab fishermen in northern New Brunswick are getting more than $2 million over three years to help test technologies aimed at reducing the risks of North Atlantic right whale entanglements in fishing gear.