Bob Weber
Reporter with The Canadian Press
About Bob Weber
Arctic animals adapting to climate change, but it may be causing declines: study
A huge new archive of how animals move across the Arctic from season to season gives the clearest picture yet of how species from eagles to caribou are evolving in the face of climate change and hints at why some of them are in decline.
Feds, Alberta reach caribou protection deal that gives them years to take action
Canada and Alberta have signed a deal on caribou protection that gives them years to take action but could allow energy drilling to resume on some ranges.
In Waterloo they're looking for nature's deepest and weirdest secrets
Tim Hsieh, a theoretical physicist, pauses when asked what he studies for a living.
Low oil prices, COVID crisis hand Alberta $24.2B deficit
The double blow of collapsing oil prices and the COVID-19 crisis has pushed Alberta into a historic deficit of $24.2 billion — more than triple what the United Conservative government projected in its February budget.
At least one in three northern women sexually harassed: survey
More than one-third of women in Canada's three northern territories have been subjected to unwelcome sexual attention in a public place, says a survey from Statistics Canada.
Feds to join assessment of Teck coal mine expansion in B.C.
The federal government will join an environmental assessment of a major expansion to a proposed southern British Columbia coal mine.
Alberta and feds sign deal to limit oilsands environmental monitoring
Alberta has signed an agreement with the federal government that makes major cuts to environmental monitoring of the oilsands.
Droves of campers putting 'insane' pressures on Alberta wilderness
A vast section of Alberta backcountry once considered for a park is being overused by tens of thousands of campers who cut trees, strew garbage and trespass, says a provincial advisory committee.
Alberta suspended environmental monitoring for oilsands. Key officials were left in the dark.
Alberta suspended environmental monitoring for oilsands companies without notifying the Northwest Territories, despite a legally binding agreement to do so.
Fort McMurray wildfire's impact on rivers astonishes scientists
Four years after its flames guttered out, the record-breaking Fort McMurray wildfire continues to astound — this time with its lasting impact on an extensive river system.