Environment

Canada

Canadians should be prepared for more wildfires and hurricanes: Environment Canada

Human-caused climate change is making heat waves much more likely and is triggering extreme events like wildfires and storms, the…

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Tech

Tornado database from Environment Canada archives offers new twist on storm chasing

A trove of documents detailing more than two centuries of tornado events in Canada is now available to anyone with…

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Canada

Environment Canada issues multiple heat warnings for B.C.

Environment Canada has issued a series of heat warnings for British Columbia stretching into next week, with parts of the…

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Politics

Environment minister calls for emergency decree to protect Quebec caribou from ‘imminent threat’

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is recommending the adoption of an emergency decree to protect the boreal caribou in Quebec as some…

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Politics

Environment Canada says it can now rapidly link high-heat weather events to climate change

Environment and Climate Change Canada says it’s now able to publicly identify links between episodes of extreme heat and climate change within…

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Canada

5 tornadoes touched down in central Alberta Monday, Environment Canada confirms

The federal weather agency confirmed Thursday that five tornadoes touched down in central Alberta earlier this week. Tornadoes were reported…

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Health

Environment Canada adopts B.C. model to warn of smoke hazards

Last year’s record-breaking wildfire season forced Canadians to become familiar with the scale of air pollution as hazardous smoke drifted…

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Sports

How do we love sports when sports aren’t always good for the environment? 

There is no denying that environment and sport are inextricably linked. We play soccer on green fields, we swim in…

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Canada

Largest water-sharing agreements in Alberta’s history now in place: environment minister

Alberta has concluded its negotiations with major water licence holders and is now outlining what it calls the largest water-sharing…

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Nova Scotia

N.S. environment minister says silence on Coastal Protection Act survey speaks volumes

Nova Scotia Environment Minister Tim Halman says he knows what almost 39,000 people think about the Coastal Protection Act, even…

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