Ottawa plans to impose the federal carbon tax on Alberta starting Jan. 1 and federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has written the province about the decision.

The status of Canada's largest park as a World Heritage Site remains wobbly after a United Nations body expressed grave doubts about a federal plan to rescue it.

Climate change can seem like a problem too vast for everyday people to influence, but research using computer models suggests that public attitudes and social learning can have a measurable impact on global warming.

New research suggests North Americans eat, drink and inhale tens of thousands of tiny plastic particles every year.

Nunavut is failing to prepare its high school and mature students for further education or for the working world, says a highly critical report from the federal auditor general.

One minute, it was dangling off the back of an icebreaker into the waters of the High Arctic. The next, the crucial piece of gear was gone.

An environmental group says Canada needs to up its game on protecting its oceans.

Pudgin Wanuch knew there was nothing he could do as he watched the out-of-control wildfire consume the only home he'd ever known.

Newly published research has concluded that food insecurity in Nunavut grew after a federal program was brought in to fight hunger in the North.

An Inuit land-claim group is asking the federal government to permanently protect large sections of the Eastern Arctic from any industrial development.