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The company, which counts retired B.C. senator Edward Lawson among its directors, has filed a claim with the United Nations to act as the sole "development agent" of Arctic seabed oil and gas.
And an underlying warming trend, blamed by the U.N. Climate Panel on human use of fossil fuels, is likely to reassert itself after the end of a La Nina cooling of the Pacific in the coming months. There were similar conditions in 1998 and 2005, the hottes
OTTAWA - Alberta's oilsands industry will be allowed to triple its annual greenhouse-gas pollution over the next decade, and more than 20 per cent of emissions from the rest of the oilpatch will be exempt from Prime Minister Stephen Harper government's
TORONTO — It’s imperative that Canada study the potential health impacts of pollution and poor water quality in light of a controversial American report that suggests some Great Lakes cities have abnormally high rates of cancer mortality and other health
The Toronto-based firm said it has applied with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to prepare a site and that first power could come as early as 2017. In the interim, Bruce Power will have to complete a successful environmental assessment - a three-ye
The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change held in New York City March 2-4 was attended by an impressive list of over 500 people. The conference was organized by the Heartland Institute of Chicago and co-sponsored by dozens of organizations. Also
A proposal to kill wolf pups and sterilize their parents to bolster elk numbers in the Rocky Mountain House area is not the answer, the Alberta director of the Sierra Club of Canada says.
In Toronto, Phillips predicts the storm will leave another 25 cm of snow in its wake.Much of it will fall Saturday afternoon and evening, when the centre of the storm is closest to Toronto.
The report, the first of its kind done for the federal government in 10 years, says Canada can expect more ice storms, torrential downpours, floods, droughts and landslides, as well more days of extreme heat and smog.
Finally, mankind has the answer to that eternal question, how many coconuts does it take to go from London to Amsterdam? The answer: 150,000 -- converted into biofuel and poured into a special 747, of course.
How deceptively gentle she appeared, as she gnawed lazily on the grass and gazed curiously at her fleet of human company.
During a trip to the north, I had the privilege of befriending the animal crowned as Lord of the Arctic.
VANCOUVER - American fishing boats with massive nets dredging the bottom of the Bering Sea for pollock accidentally caught 130,000 thousand prized chinook salmon last year
OLD chemicals used by businesses for decades are causing new problems in the environment as scientists turn their attention toward compounds that are accumulating in rivers, lakes and oceans.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rises in the sea level around Antarctica in the past decade are almost entirely due a warming ocean, not ice melting, an Australian scientist leading a major international research program said.
Researchers believe a deadly fungus first seen on Vancouver Island might be spreading to British Columbia's Lower Mainland, a heavily populated area that includes Vancouver and suburbs such as Surrey, Richmond, and Delta
It has been an interesting, but uneventful four hours of flying for the four-man crew of Transport Canada's Dash 8 aircraft, a twin turboprop that bristles with high-tech equipment while conducting patrols for marine polluters off B.C.'s west coast.
"On some streets, traffic is impaired because of snow. It affects accessibility for our emergency and waste vehicles," Mayor David Miller said. "We will need the co-operation of Torontonians to make this operation a success."
Salmon farming operations have reduced wild salmon populations by up to 70 per cent in several areas around the world and are threatening the future of the endangered stocks, says a new scientific study.
Converting land for biofuel crops results in major carbon emissions and actually worsens the problem of global warming instead of mitigating it, says a new study.
Canada's decision to open bidding for the rights to drill in the northern Beaufort Sea will destroy a large area of critical polar bear habitat and put the animal's future in danger, the World Wildlife Foundation said Thursday.
The uncertainty over whether Canada's water is at risk could be ended by tough new federal legislation prohibiting on environmental grounds the transfer of water out of any of the country's five natural drainage basins, says a new report by the Universi
Dan Gerak noticed the first signs in late November in the upper Pitt River Valley -- several big paw prints in the snow and the carcass of a black-tailed deer.
Two ecosystems with a huge Canadian component - the boreal forest and Arctic ice - are on a shortlist of nine elements in Earth's climate system fast approaching their "tipping" point.
A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
METRO VANCOUVER - Sockeye have returned to the Coquitlam River for the first time in nearly a century, and could be spawning in Coquitlam Lake as early as this summer.
OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming this century could trigger a runaway thaw of Greenland's ice sheet and other abrupt shifts such as a dieback of the Amazon rainforest, scientists said on Monday.
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Two Brazilian research groups said Sunday the Amazon rain forest will shrink by nearly 20 per cent by 2030 as farming, road construction and poor government surveillance speeds deforestation.
CN Rail is facing federal charges over the train derailment and oil spill at Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton in August 2005.
OTTAWA - Alberta's oilsands industry will be allowed to triple its annual greenhouse-gas pollution over the next decade, and more than 20 per cent of emissions from the rest of the oilpatch will be exempt from Prime Minister Stephen Harper government's 
TORONTO — It’s imperative that Canada study the potential health impacts of pollution and poor water quality in light of a controversial American report that suggests some Great Lakes cities have abnormally high rates of cancer mortality and other health 
A proposal to kill wolf pups and sterilize their parents to bolster elk numbers in the Rocky Mountain House area is not the answer, the Alberta director of the Sierra Club of Canada says.
Finally, mankind has the answer to that eternal question, how many coconuts does it take to go from London to Amsterdam? The answer: 150,000 -- converted into biofuel and poured into a special 747, of course.
The David Suzuki Foundation has released a report extolling the virtues of a federal carbon tax as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
How deceptively gentle she appeared, as she gnawed lazily on the grass and gazed curiously at her fleet of human company.
During a trip to the north, I had the privilege of befriending the animal crowned as Lord of the Arctic.
VANCOUVER - American fishing boats with massive nets dredging the bottom of the Bering Sea for pollock accidentally caught 130,000 thousand prized chinook salmon last year
OLD chemicals used by businesses for decades are causing new problems in the environment as scientists turn their attention toward compounds that are accumulating in rivers, lakes and oceans.
EDMONTON - The lowly beaver is a loyal friend in the battle against drought, says a University of Alberta researcher.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rises in the sea level around Antarctica in the past decade are almost entirely due a warming ocean, not ice melting, an Australian scientist leading a major international research program said.
Researchers believe a deadly fungus first seen on Vancouver Island might be spreading to British Columbia's Lower Mainland, a heavily populated area that includes Vancouver and suburbs such as Surrey, Richmond, and Delta
It has been an interesting, but uneventful four hours of flying for the four-man crew of Transport Canada's Dash 8 aircraft, a twin turboprop that bristles with high-tech equipment while conducting patrols for marine polluters off B.C.'s west coast.
Salmon farming operations have reduced wild salmon populations by up to 70 per cent in several areas around the world and are threatening the future of the endangered stocks, says a new scientific study.
Converting land for biofuel crops results in major carbon emissions and actually worsens the problem of global warming instead of mitigating it, says a new study.
Canada's decision to open bidding for the rights to drill in the northern Beaufort Sea will destroy a large area of critical polar bear habitat and put the animal's future in danger, the World Wildlife Foundation said Thursday.
Dan Gerak noticed the first signs in late November in the upper Pitt River Valley -- several big paw prints in the snow and the carcass of a black-tailed deer.
Two ecosystems with a huge Canadian component - the boreal forest and Arctic ice - are on a shortlist of nine elements in Earth's climate system fast approaching their "tipping" point.
A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
METRO VANCOUVER - Sockeye have returned to the Coquitlam River for the first time in nearly a century, and could be spawning in Coquitlam Lake as early as this summer.
OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming this century could trigger a runaway thaw of Greenland's ice sheet and other abrupt shifts such as a dieback of the Amazon rainforest, scientists said on Monday.
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Two Brazilian research groups said Sunday the Amazon rain forest will shrink by nearly 20 per cent by 2030 as farming, road construction and poor government surveillance speeds deforestation.