Climate & Environment

There is renewed optimism that invasive wild pigs could be eradicated from Manitoba, according to a new report.

A newly released report suggests new apartments across Canada should be required to make their parking spots electric-vehicle ready as a way to help boost uptake.

Arbru Solar Brewery in Mallorytown, Ont. has a unique twist - it's entirely solar powered.

A newborn orca spotted off British Columbia has been identified as a descendent of one of the last killer whales captured and held at SeaWorld, according to an agency that represents more than two dozen whale-watching companies in B.C. and Washington state.

When Canada’s big banks left the Net Zero Banking Alliance earlier this year, they assured they could push on reducing emissions without the help of the international climate coalition launched in 2021 by Mark Carney, now Canada’s prime minister.

With massive job cuts, the U.S. National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations, which meteorologists and former agency leaders said will degrade the accuracy of forecasts just as severe weather season kicks in.

Singing frogs are looking for love. Sweet sap is flowing from the maple trees. Striking migratory birds are returning to their northerly nests.

Planetary Technologies, based in Nova Scotia, is betting this powdery white mineral will absorb more planet-warming gases into the sea.

Nearly half of the landslides, debris flows and washouts that occurred during British Columbia’s atmospheric river disaster in November 2021 originated in areas that had been logged or burned by wildfire, a study has found.

The Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia erupted three times into Friday, sending an ash column 8,000 metres (26,000 feet) high and prompting authorities to expand the danger zone around the volcano.

Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO report released on Friday.

Environmental group Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million in damages for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota, a jury found Wednesday.

Civil society groups and academics urged governments Thursday to take actual steps toward fulfilling a stalled pledge to end deforestation before this year’s UN climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon.

Traffic was flowing in and out of the Florida Keys on Wednesday after a brush fire led officials to briefly close U.S. 1, snarling traffic for hours for those trying to enter or leave island chain.