Climate & Environment

An enormous national marine conservation reserve is being established on British Columbia’s central coast, spanning an area larger than Prince Edward Island.

The coming “Super” El Niño is poised to affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide as it strengthens through the year into the winter season. It may also alter ecosystems for decades to come, judging from the repercussions of past intense El Niños.

An American white pelican that spent close to seven months at the Calgary Wildlife rehabilitation centre was released on Thursday at Frank Lake, a protected wetland east of High River.

Ancient bedrock exposed by disappearing permafrost is releasing toxic metals into Canada’s northern rivers, a new study says, with once-pristine subarctic streams now comparable in some cases to highly acidic, contaminated mining sites.

A grizzly bear cub was hit and killed by a train in Banff over the weekend.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its predictions for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.

British Columbia researchers found more than 200 contaminants in water and chinook salmon tissue samples collected from five sites in the Lower Fraser River estuary including everything from cocaine and antidepressants to caffeine and flame retardants.

Manitoba’s current seeding progress is significantly behind last year’s average, according to the province’s most recent report.

A bear that attacked a man after climbing the stairs of a porch in Mission, B.C., over the weekend was trapped and euthanized, according to officials.

Social media videos showing two men hand-feeding a grizzly bear over the long weekend have prompted an investigation in northern B.C.

Two American nationals were arrested in Japan after a stunt in which one entered the monkey enclosure at a zoo where a baby macaque named Punch became a global internet sensation this year, police said Monday.

A ridge of heat building over the Maritimes going back to the May Long weekend peaked on Wednesday.

A tornado warning has been dropped for the London region and other areas of southern Ontario as a strong thunderstorm made its way across the region Tuesday evening.

Hanna Vatcher with Oceana, a conservation group, says they are “cautiously optimistic” after the North Atlantic right whale saw its strongest calving season in nearly two decades.

More than 17,000 people were under evacuation orders in Southern California on Tuesday as a wildfire threatened suburban homes.