National
Chronic wasting disease threatens deer, elk — and maybe humans, new research says
CBC.ca
Chronic wasting disease affects animals such as deer, caribou, moose and elk, attacking nervous systems with universally fatal results. Like mad cow ...
Climate change focus moves to the suburbs as cities continue to sprawl
CBC.ca
You might think that cramped and crowded cities, dense with roads and highrise towers, are bad for the environment and bad for addressing climate ...
“Multi layer smoky mess” across Western Canada
Lethbridge News Now
Smoke from western wildfires have created what Justin Shelley at Environment Canada is calling a “multi-layered smoky mess”. While smoke issues in ...
Free new Canadian app detects and maps forest fires to improve response and public safety
Canada NewsWire
It is now available for free to Canadian firefighters, forestry managers, emergency managers, municipalities, the media and the public to see – in near ...
'Far from over': No relief in sight for wildfire season
The Globe and Mail
More than 150 new fires started burning across Canada during the weekend, according to the non-profit Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, ...
Lobby Wrap: Health care, environment popular on lobbying scene
iPolitics.ca
Impala Canada Limited — a mining company and subsidiary of South ... Imperial Oil Limited and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers ...
Prairie farmers pray for rain as drought, grasshoppers ravage crops and pastures
CTV News
Spreading wildlife disease threatens deer, elk and maybe humans, new ... Drought conditions are also causing problems in western Ontario and in ...
The Government of Canada supports Dene Nation initiative to help conserve boreal caribou
Canada NewsWire
Conserving and restoring nature is vital to combat climate change; protect biodiversity and species at risk; and rebuild a strong, sustainable economy.
Study using laser technology suggests Canada overlooks key sources of methane emissions
CBC.ca
Regulations in Canada are mostly based on surveys that use optical gas ... In a statement to CBC News, Environment and Climate Change Canada ...
How healthy is the Salish Sea? Canada-US study tracks ecosystem decline
Vancouver Is Awesome
Shellfish. The "Health of the Salish Sea Report" from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment and Climate Change Canada offers a ...
Two endangered right whales entangled in fishing gear in Gulf of St. Lawrence
Globalnews.ca
Greene said his team was able to remove three pieces of rope last week, adding that the animal appears healthy and is feeding; however, he said, more ...
New global framework to manage nature through 2030
CanIndia News
The framework, released on Monday, favours a 50 per cent of greater reduction in the rate of introduction of invasive alien species, and controls or ...
Government of Canada confirms ambitious new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target
Canada NewsWire
Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable ... Canada's NDC submission outlines a series of investments, regulations ...
British Columbia
Salmon and other sea life affected by recent heat waves, experts say
Vernon Morning Star
A sweltering heat wave in much of Western Canada in the last week of June had cascading effects on sea life, experts say. Scott Hinch, director of the ...
Fire experts prescribe Indigenous cultural burns to reduce wildfire risk in BC
Lethbridge News Now
As a member of a research team with the U.S. Forest Service in Washington state, Gray has studied what forests and wildfire behaviour were like when ...
Federal watchdog urged to investigate Canada's 'longstanding failure' to stop BC Elk Valley coal ...
The Narwhal
The B.C Environmental Assessment Office told The Narwhal in an email that the process to assess three new coal mines will look at water quality, the ...
Parks Canada deploys three Banff fire specialists to BC
St. Albert Today
BANFF – Three members of Banff National Park's fire management team have been deployed to neighbouring British Columbia as wildfires continue ...
Camping at night, hunting plastic by day: How crews are cleaning up remote stretches of BC's ...
CBC.ca
Often they have to rough it, cooking their own meals and camping out by night and then hunting for plastic by day. Other crews get the luxury of eating ...
Conservation officers put 'soft foot-hold traps' in Stanley Park to catch coyotes
Vancouver Is Awesome
But what exactly are "live coyote traps"? Environment Canada Senior Public Affairs Officer Andrew Patrick tells Vancouver Is Awesome that conservation ...
Search on for at least 3 orphaned black bear cubs on North Shore
CTV News Vancouver
The North Shore Black Bear Society says the BC Conservation Officer Service has killed two mother bears this week in West Vancouver, orphaning ...
$105M earmarked for BC centre for climate change innovation
CTV News Vancouver
Premier John Horgan says climate change is one of the key challenges of our time and we can't let the fiery destruction of the community of Lytton go by ...
As sea levels rise, BC coastal cities could face flooding from moon's 'wobble'
CBC.ca
... every 18.6 years could worsen floods from climate change's rising seas ... "Nothing about the moon is changing, this is a totally predictable effect," ...
Canada Invests up to $35 Million to Support Made-in-BC Clean Tech Projects
Canada NewsWire
"Rising to meet the challenge of global climate change requires joint action from business and government to help scale up clean energy solutions. As a ...
BC oil and gas sites releasing up to 2.2 times more methane emissions than federal estimates: study
The Narwhal
The new research, published this week in Environmental Science and ... regulations are not likely strong enough to meet government climate targets ...
Dozens of rare sei whales spotted by researchers in 'unprecedented' sighting off BC's coast
CBC.ca
The team's lead scientist says spotting a group that large in the waters near the coast where the species is endangered is "unprecedented.".
'Time is now' to change approach to land use after BC treaty ruling, lawyer says
The Lawyer's Daily
“The province cannot take up so much land such that Blueberry can no longer meaningfully exercise its rights to hunt, trap and fish in a manner ...
Alberta
UCalgary researchers at work on a vaccine against a fatal infectious diseaseaffecting deer and ...
UCalgary News
“Our new data show that there is the potential for chronic wasting disease (CWD) to infect people,” says Dr. Hermann Schaetzl, MD, PhD, professor of ...
Calgary man biking to 164 Alberta parks formerly slated to be delisted
CBC.ca
... Alberta Wilderness Foundation, an organization that supports the conservation of wilderness areas and the completion of a protected areas network.
Alberta can expect more hot, dry summers thanks to climate change, climatologist says
Fort McMurray Today
University of Calgary climatologist Shawn Marshall said such heat waves in Alberta were to be expected as a result of climate change, but not so soon. “ ...
Kananaskis Conservation Pass 'game-changer': Alberta Parks
CityNews Edmonton
Kananaskis Conservation Pass 'game-changer': Alberta Parks. by Kayla Bruch. Posted Jul 11, 2021 12:01 pm MDT.
Saskatchewan
2 Six Nations Treaty hunters to be resentenced for hunting in Sask. illegally: Court of Queen's Bench
CBC.ca
Two hunters from Six Nations in Ontario who were initially found to be exercising their treaty right to hunt for sustenance are to be sentenced instead, ...
Anti-trespassing app goes online across Saskatchewan
paNOW
Rural property owners in Saskatchewan have a new tool at their finger tips to help address issues related to trespassing, illegal hunting and even the ...
Landowners weigh how to help 'dire' grassland bird populations
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
... Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Environment Canada wildlife biologist Stephen Davis has one word for it: “dire.” Many grassland birds are listed as ...
Manitoba
'Significant conservation achievement': Manitoba wetland purchased by conservation charity
CTV News
Douglas Marsh's wetlands and native prairie, which provide habitat for many important species at risk, including the yellow rail, will now be protected ...
Ontario
People have embraced Ontario's parks during the pandemic, but are they loving them to death?
CBC.ca
So contact with nature within protected areas can provide relaxation, ... the dual mandate of these parks: to allow people in, but also protect the area.
Busy beavers cause lots of dam problems in Barrie
BarrieToday
“The most common places beavers are found is in stormwater ponds adjacent to environmentally protected areas, or in the outskirts of urban areas in ...
Supreme Court sides with Lac Seul First Nation over flooding compensation
The Globe and Mail
Fishing, hunting and trapping suffered. Despite the sacrifices made by the First Nation in the name of generating more power, the reserve did not have ...
Mexican crews to help with forest fire suppression efforts in northwestern Ontario
CBC.ca
As of Friday morning, nearly 90 forest fires were burning in northwestern Ontario, the province said. Twenty-two were in the Red Lake district. Two of ...
Quebec
Maritimes
Public consultation sessions scheduled for 3 NS salmon farms
CBC.ca
The company applied in 2016 to Nova Scotia's Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture for boundary amendments to licences on a total of five fish ...
Mi'kmaw communities monitoring for beetle that threatens culturally important ash tree
CBC.ca
"And then we're also focusing trapping down in the southwest around Saint John and also in Charlotte County." Traps to catch emerald ash borer ...
Province Releases Key Guides as Part of Ecological Forestry Implementation
Government of Nova Scotia
“We are transforming how we manage our public lands, creating a ... The triad model of ecological forestry divides the land into three zones that work ...
13 recommendations made to change PEI land policies in government report
CBC.ca
Members of the committee consulted information from previous land reports and gathered public input from a survey and from more than 20 ...
Group of NS firefighters assigned to help fight wildfires in Ontario, Manitoba, British Columbia
CTV News Atlantic
In total, 23 wildland firefighters with the Department of Lands and Forestry ... Heavy rainfall expected overnight in northeastern Ont. while forest fire ...
Lobster fishermen oppose plans to build land-based salmon farm in Yarmouth County
CBC.ca
Two southwest Nova Scotia lobster fishermen say an aquaculture company's proposal to build a land-based salmon farm south of Yarmouth, N.S., ...
Canada launches CLIMAtlantic to help Atlantic Canadians adapt to climate change
Canada NewsWire
Canadians are increasingly aware of the impacts of climate change, including more frequent and severe storms, coastal erosion, sea-level rise, and ...
Nova Scotia denies wildlife sanctuary's proposal to rehab orphaned black bear cubs
CBC.ca
... the founder of Hope for Wildlife, told CBC's Information Morning on Thursday. "It would be our dream to be able to rehabilitate all indigenous wildlife ...
Court says feds breached charter in PEI fish kill investigation
CBC.ca
"This is a good day for my family but a great day for all farmers in Canada," said Alex Docherty, who owns and operates Skye View Farms with his son ...
Researchers believe Nova Scotia's bat population is recovering
HalifaxToday.ca
Lori Phinney, a wildlife biologist with Nova Scotia's Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, said the diseasekilled more than 90 per cent of the province's ...
Firewood drop-off boxes added at PEI entrances to stop spread of invasive species
CBC.ca
The two boxes were put in place as part of a pilot project spearheaded by the P.E.I. Invasive SpeciesCouncil through a new committee called Don't ...
Newfoundland and Labrador
Territories
'It'll wreak havoc for wildlife': An invasive plant is threatening Canada's northern wetlands
CTV News
Eric Cleland, director of Ontario's Invasive Species Program at the Nature Conservancy of Canada, said phragmites are prevalent across Eastern ...
Tusks, horns and skins, along with firearms, seized in Yukon border stop
CBC.ca
They also seized dozens of animal products, most of them protected goods under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild ...
Arctic seabirds have a low tolerance to heat, McGill study suggests: what this means in a rapidly ...
CTV Montreal
Although the thick-billed murre is not currently considered an endangered species, these findings point to a precarious future — especially ...
Commercial fishing banned in central Arctic Ocean as countries look to build scientific knowledge
CBC.ca
Turple is the director of international fisheries policy at the DFO. Canada, EU and 8 other countries set to sign 'historic' agreement to protect Central ...
Yukon North Slope plan seeks to conserve northernmost region of the territory
CBC.ca
Recommendations include habitat protection, the creation of Indigenous protected and conserved areas, implementing a regional economic strategy, ...
New food strategy calls for major government investment, Inuit leadership
Nunatsiaq News
Harvesting of wildlife, or country food, however, remains inaccessible to many ... And much of that commercially harvested wildlife leaves the North ... is the biggest employer in Canada but its an endangered species in Nunavut 4.
NWT Brewing Releases Five Antlers Ale for Caribou Conservation
Canadian Beer News
... announced the release of a new beer in partnership with NWT Species at Risk to promote the conservation of caribou in the Northwest Territories.
Climate change could fuel increase in mosquito-borne viruses in NWT, say health officials
CBC.ca
As the climate changes, the risk of contracting a serious virus from a mosquito bite could increase in the N.W.T., according to the territory's health ...
International
EU unveils tough new climate rules, including tax on foreign polluters
CBC.ca
European Union policy-makers on Wednesday unveiled their most ambitious plan yet to tackle climate change, aiming to turn green goals into ...
European officials say 'climate change has arrived' as deadly floods engulf entire towns
CTV News
European officials have said climate change contributed to this week's extreme flooding, which has left entire towns submerged and more than 120 ...
Victorian wildlife carers call for stronger animal protection laws
ABC News
Lisa Palma, CEO of Wildlife Victoria, said she believed these incidents were "the tip of the iceberg". The state's Wildlife Act, which sets the rules on how ...
UK looks to extend ivory ban to hippos and other animals
The Nation
Boris Johnson has previously announced that funding to tackle the illegal wildlife trade will be increased. The Ivory Act, which gained Royal Assent in ...
Mystery illness kills birds in parts of US; remove bird feeders here to help stem spread
Worcester Telegram
How, wildlife officials are asking residents to take down bird feeders - and bird baths - to head off a deadly, "mystery" disease affecting other areas of ...
Wildlife Officials Issue Warning on the Dangers of Mixing Domestic Livestock with Our Wild Bighorn ...
highcountryshopper.com
However, bighorn sheep still face significant threats, especially from diseases transmitted by domestic sheep and goats. The mechanism of disease ...
African swine fever disease contingency plans tested through UK-wide exercise
GOV.UK
ASF spreads between animals, but the virus can also be transmitted through feeding infected meat to other animals. The government currently deems ...
Israel plans to tax disposable plastic in bid to reduce use
CityNews Toronto
The Finance and Environmental Protection Ministries said in a joint statement that raising taxes on disposable plastic goods is projected to cut ...
'We have to make the state more climate-proof,' one official says in response to Germany's floods.
The New York Times
Environmental activists and politicians were quick to draw parallels between the flooding and the effects of climate change. Ursula von der Leyen, the ...
Over 10000 Amazon rainforest species risk extinction, landmark report warns
CBC.ca
Bolsonaro has called for mining and agriculture in protected areas of the ... 64 per cent of the destruction took place in the country's Amazon region.
Shark movies severely affect conservation efforts, study suggests
CTV News
... but also severely affected conservation efforts to save the often endangered animal, a new study from the University of South Australia suggests.
Life under the heat dome: You might no longer know where you are
The Globe and Mail
Yellowstone may itself turn into a novel ecosystem where cheatgrass, an invasive species, would replace vanished forests. Unlike most native grasses ...
1st female grizzly in 40 years collared in Washington state
Fernie Free Press
In this 2019 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo. Grizzly ...
Florida breaks snnual manatee death record in first 6 months
CTV News
The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission reported that 841 manatee deaths were recorded between Jan. 1 and July 2, breaking the ...
Climate Change
Merkel says Germany must do more to tackle climate change
National Post
“We have to hurry, we have to get faster in the fight against climate change.” (Reporting by Christoph Steitz; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne) ...
Climate change accompanied by threat of extreme weather
simcoe.com
Climate change accompanied by threat of extreme weather. Record temperatures and wildfires are among the consequences, says Bob Bowles. Bob ...
'We are so unprepared': Extreme heat fueled by climate changeputting farmworkers' lives on the line
USA TODAY
Ebi has worked on issues of climate change and health for 25 years, and says temperatures don't have to reach 115 degrees to do long-term damage to ...
Scientists predict climate change will cause more intense storms across Europe
CTV News
"This study shows that in addition to the intensification of rainfall with global warming, we can also expect a big increase in slow-moving storms which ...
Greenland halts new oil exploration to combat climate change and focus on sustainable development
CBS News
Government officials said they believe the "price of oil extraction is too high," citing both economic considerations and the fight against climate change.
Gwich'in traditional knowledge adapts to climate change
Northern News Services
Another concern brought on by climate change are invasive species. Alice Vittrekwa notes in the report that all five species of Pacific Salmon have ...
US Companies Say Climate Change Is a Problem—But Still Lobby Against Solutions
BNN
A science-based climate target is one aligned with the Paris Agreement goal of restricting global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius, which will ...
Natural landscapes key to Canadian cities, rural areas for building climateresilience, experts say
CBC.ca
'We're being reminded that climate change is happening faster than we were even anticipating'. Stephanie Dubois · CBC News · Posted: Jul 12, 2021 ...
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