Alberta scientists and environmentalists say proposed legislation governing backcountry trails on public lands will thwart efforts to restore nature and add one more stressor to an already overtaxed landscape.

Coal mining on environmentally sensitive slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains wouldn't be an overall benefit to the province, a wide-ranging analysis from the University of Calgary has concluded.

Alberta's top representative to the global climate conference taking place in Scotland says Alberta is not alone when it comes to feeling pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Tim McMillan, CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says,"We've taken some very clear steps that are inconsistent with the rest of the world."

Alberta politicians are warning the federal Liberal government that caps on greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas will have to be set in consultation with the province.

The Alberta government has introduced legislation that it says would help municipalities recoup some of the millions of dollars in unpaid property taxes they're owed by energy companies.

"It was because of the overwhelming response and the need to accommodate that response with extra time that we had to approach the minister with the request for an extension," committee head Ron Wallace said in an interview Tuesday.

New research shows that roads and runways quieted by COVID-19 are filling with birdsong instead.

A fungus that is destroying bat populations in eastern North America has made its first appearance on the Canadian Prairies.

What that 2018 dig revealed was something that stood out even in the bizarre world of the Burgess Shale, an outcrop of 500-million-year-old rocks in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia that is chock-a-block with fossils from the earliest days of complex life on Earth.