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For years, Manitoba stalled on protecting nature. Here’s what you need to know as it vows to change course

2024-04-26 11:00

13 national award nominations honour The Narwhal’s impactful work

2024-04-25 23:43

It’s the world’s first Indigenous-led ‘blue park.’ And Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation pulled it off without waiting on Canada

2024-04-25 14:43

Can these far northern First Nations protect the world’s Breathing Lands?

2024-04-25 11:01

On Haida Gwaii, a colonial government is no longer lord of the land

2024-04-24 12:48

Meet Shannon Waters, The Narwhal’s B.C. politics and environment reporter

2024-04-23 23:08

‘Hopefully, the story dies’: emails show North Bay officials reacting to reporting on plastics factory’s use of PFAS

2024-04-23 11:00

Earth Day first aimed to save species. To do that, we need to think about more than one

2024-04-22 11:10

Agriculture has historically ravaged wetlands. These farmers are trying to change that

2024-04-19 11:00

The Narwhal teams up with The Big Story podcast for Paydirt, a miniseries about Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal

2024-04-18 23:04

Conservation chronicles: Sarah Cox dives into the heart of wildlife protection in her new book

2024-04-18 19:51

A parched place: the Alberta drought crisis is bigger than one summer

2024-04-18 12:00

Ontario worried about ‘substantial’ costs to Enbridge Gas in deciding to overrule energy board: docs

2024-04-17 16:09

The Narwhal snags 6 nominations for national journalism awards

2024-04-16 22:30

The Narwhals snags 6 nominations for national journalism awards

2024-04-16 22:30

On the land looking for moose. Where have they gone?

2024-04-16 17:00

Yellowknife to Fort McMurray: lessons from the frontlines of Canada’s worst wildfires

2024-04-15 15:52

An epoch fail: geologists strike down Anthropocene proposal, despite Ontario lake evidence

2024-04-11 12:49

Meet Atenas Contreras, The Narwhal’s director of operations and finance

2024-04-10 20:02

If Canada’s environmental fines don’t match the crimes, industrial pollution will continue

2024-04-09 17:25

Is a park still a park if it’s paved?

2024-04-08 17:27

Ontario could run out of landfill space in nine years. Then what?

2024-04-08 11:00

Baboon biting incident prompts Ontario town to call for stricter exotic animal rules

2024-04-05 11:00

A mineral rush and a hiring crisis: Canadian mining’s ‘dirty’ image is scaring off recruits

2024-04-04 15:48

‘Detached from reality’: researchers say Pathways Alliance ‘misleading’ public with ‘greenwashing’

2024-04-04 13:00

‘Detached from reality’: researchers say Pathways Alliance misleading public with greenwashing

2024-04-04 13:00

Wild fish spring to life in Lake Ontario, despite dams, pollution and hatchery competitors

2024-04-03 11:00

Manitoba promised a ‘credible path to net zero,’ but adds little in new funding

2024-04-02 23:49

Frustrated with government, Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs wavering on support for B.C. pipeline

2024-04-02 13:00

Remembering Bob the elk: what the life and death of a B.C. town’s beloved neighbour can teach us

2024-03-30 11:00

Staffers who quit amid Ontario Greenbelt scandal earned full year’s salary — despite resigning last summer

2024-03-28 18:37

The demand for power might make one of Canada’s cleanest grids dirtier

2024-03-28 17:46

I experienced unimaginable grief. In birds, I found a reason to go on

2024-03-27 12:00

Inside Irving Oil’s repeated push to change federal pollution rules

2024-03-26 10:00

‘You start with us’: conservation authority head has parting message for Ontario government

2024-03-25 11:00

From the Torngat Mountains to the Labrador Sea, a new Inuit-led protected area takes a step forward

2024-03-22 12:49

Mines, logging, sprawl — but no wind turbines. Here’s what Alberta is still doing in ‘pristine viewscapes’

2024-03-21 15:38

B.C. isn’t getting an endangered species law. Maybe that’s okay

2024-03-21 13:00

Frustrated with Canada’s spill response, Heiltsuk leaders take their fight international

2024-03-20 17:40

Costs to clean up Teck’s B.C. coal mines are billions higher than previously thought: report

2024-03-19 12:00

The Narwhal snags 3 National Newspaper Awards nominations

2024-03-18 22:25

Announcing The Narwhal’s 2024 Indigenous photojournalism fellowship

2024-03-18 21:56

B.C. to test need for heli-ski flight data to support caribou conservation

2024-03-18 14:00

Flood risk mapping could help us, so why are we so opposed to it?

2024-03-15 18:00

Koch Industries’ US$30M carbon pricing lawsuit against Canada dismissed by international court

2024-03-14 20:49

5 projects you need to know about as B.C.’s oil and gas sector heats up

2024-03-14 12:48

Manitoba funds mining exploration in threatened caribou habitat inside provincial park

2024-03-13 15:10

A 94-year-old wants to welcome Ontarians to paradise. A parking lot nearly stood in her way

2024-03-12 11:00

Canada, U.S. launch international inquiry into southeast B.C. mine pollution

2024-03-11 21:56

As severe Alberta drought looms, fracking consumes huge volumes of water — forever

2024-03-11 12:00

On this social network, sea ice, traditional foods and wildlife are always trending

2024-03-08 16:00

8,000 kms of ice roads link Canada’s North. Erratic winters are wreaking havoc on the lifeline

2024-03-08 13:00

8,000 kms of winter roads link Canada’s North. Erratic winters are wreaking havoc on the lifeline

2024-03-08 13:00

Canada has 8,000 kms of winter roads. Half could be unusable by 2050

2024-03-08 13:00

‘Panic mode’: unpredictable winters threaten 8,000 kms of lifelines linking Canada’s North

2024-03-08 13:00

Ontario weakens watershed protections (again) as natural resources minister gets new powers

2024-03-07 12:00

Highway havoc: the perilous dance between bison and vehicles on a northern B.C. road

2024-03-06 15:00

Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts

2024-03-06 12:00

BC Hydro wants to remove new LNG transmission line from environmental assessment: confidential docs

2024-03-05 15:00

Over 1,000 oil and gas companies got Canadian small-business tax breaks

2024-03-05 11:00

Why did Indigenous-led conservation funding set off furious backlash from First Nations?

2024-03-04 12:00

Alberta’s budget: a new tax on electric vehicles — and a continued reliance on fossil fuel revenue

2024-02-29 22:23

Chronic wasting disease threatens First Nations food security

2024-02-29 13:00

Oil spilled by Fraser River sturgeon habitat. Why did it take almost 3 months to start cleaning up?

2024-02-28 21:43

Alberta’s new renewable energy rules could ban projects from large swaths of land in the province

2024-02-28 19:58

Everything we know — and don’t know — about Alberta’s new ‘soft moratorium’ for renewable energy projects

2024-02-28 19:58

The vanishing: my search for a beloved animal, after millions of them die

2024-02-27 14:00

How does Alberta’s electricity grid actually work?

2024-02-26 14:00

Logging, homesteading and life on the Prairies, through the eyes of a Black photographer

2024-02-23 13:00

What B.C. is — and isn’t — spending on the environment this election year

2024-02-23 03:07

Ontario government fulfills promise to overrule independent energy board — in favour of Enbridge Gas

2024-02-23 00:06

Lululemon relying on fossil fuel-linked PR firm as it faces greenwashing allegations

2024-02-22 11:00

After community pushback, forestry company pauses clearcut of beloved Rocky Mountain valley

2024-02-21 19:37

Everything you need to know about how Ontario’s Get It Done Act will impact the environment

2024-02-21 17:38

British Columbia’s multimillion-dollar mining problem

2024-02-21 13:59

Not a ‘veto’: unpacking misinformation around proposed B.C. Land Act amendments

2024-02-20 14:42

Rejected: ‘greenest’ mine of its kind won’t be built in Manitoba

2024-02-16 20:10

Ontario to cut protections for tiny endangered fish found along route of Highway 413

2024-02-16 09:00

See where 120 orphaned baby bears take shelter as B.C. wildfires and drought shrink their habitat

2024-02-15 14:25

See where 120 orphaned baby bears take shelter as wildfires and drought shrink their habitat

2024-02-15 14:25

‘The love gives you the strength’

2024-02-15 01:10

Climate change is hitting Ontario’s farms hard. Why won’t the government talk about it?

2024-02-14 12:00

What’s love got to do with it? A lot, according to David Suzuki

2024-02-13 16:01

Warm winters put snowmobile season, and safety, at risk

2024-02-13 12:00

Many birds are named for enslavers, colonizers and white supremacists. That’s about to change

2024-02-12 14:18

What do ‘clean’ and ‘green’ actually mean? Canadian watchdog receives complaints about environmental claims by Shell, RBC, Enbridge

2024-02-09 17:46

Canada approved a major port expansion in endangered orca habitat — now it’s going to court

2024-02-08 18:33

New housing rules in B.C. trigger fears of ‘catastrophic’ loss of urban trees

2024-02-06 14:00

‘She’s out here trailblazing’: these 10 Black environmentalists are building community

2024-02-06 12:00

‘An unfair fight’: Manitoba’s most controversial mine faces conflict of interest accusations as licensing decision looms

2024-02-05 11:59

This mine says it’s the ‘greenest’ of its kind. Will a political scandal stop the project?

2024-02-05 11:59

Coal, ‘cronies’ and courts: inside the long fight over Canmore’s future

2024-02-03 14:00

BREAKING: documents show Ontario may move to allow expropriation of land before environmental review

2024-02-02 22:01

Documents show Ontario may move to allow expropriation of land before environmental review

2024-02-02 22:01

‘Prairie potholes’ could be climate solutions — if we stop destroying them

2024-02-02 12:00

What matters at Canada’s winter events: fossil fuel sponsors — or ice?

2024-02-01 12:00

The door to B.C.’s liquefied natural gas export sector is about to open. Here’s what you need to know

2024-01-31 14:00

Counting sheep: saving a bighorn herd in the Rockies

2024-01-30 14:53

B.C. counted poorly protected old-growth forests toward conservation targets, researchers say

2024-01-29 18:00

B.C. is counting poorly protected old-growth forests toward conservation targets, researchers say

2024-01-29 18:00

Ontario sides with Enbridge Gas in fight to connect new homes to natural gas

2024-01-25 15:52

Ontario First Nations want a year-long pause on mining claims. Will the Ford government listen?

2024-01-24 19:30

Dry January: why a dash of snow and rain can’t solve B.C.’s water woes

2024-01-24 16:47

When epic ski trips and caribou conservation collide

2024-01-22 13:30

Ontario needs energy storage. Why is it holding out on two big projects?

2024-01-19 14:25

There’s new data on Alberta’s massive oil and gas cleanup problem. Here’s what you need to know

2024-01-18 19:02

‘We’re writing our own story’: four Manitoba First Nations sign historic conservation agreement

2024-01-18 17:01

‘We’re writing our own story’: Four Manitoba First Nations sign historic conservation agreement

2024-01-18 17:01

Can fake old-growth trees help this endangered animal?

2024-01-17 16:00

Can fake trees save real bats? Biologists get creative as B.C.’s old-growth forests vanish

2024-01-17 16:00

This Canadian pipeline giant wants an exemption from climate rules

2024-01-17 12:00

Restoring Ontario’s lost grasslands is as important as planting trees

2024-01-16 12:00

‘No excuse’: feds withheld key information when a Coastal GasLink site flooded

2024-01-15 13:00

Here’s what Alberta officials announced while you were on holidays

2024-01-11 19:28

Want to reduce food waste, Ontario? Be more like Vancouver

2024-01-11 12:00

First Nations are using artificial intelligence to help save salmon

2024-01-10 16:54

How the Colville Confederated Tribes are bringing Canada lynx home

2024-01-05 16:05

Power move: two Anishinaabeg farmers are decolonizing Toronto’s hydro fields

2024-01-04 13:54

The golden age of public transit was electric — and its future will be too

2024-01-02 13:00

In a B.C. courtroom, the testimony of a Haida leader spans the past and future of reconciliation

2023-12-21 22:48

Inside the fight to save one of North America’s last deep-snow caribou herds

2023-12-20 14:00

The year of the Greenbelt: how Doug Ford’s bid to build housing on protected land backfired

2023-12-19 18:05

Coal contamination spurs search for new backup drinking water source in Rocky Mountain city

2023-12-19 14:00

Restoring boreal caribou habitat, one tree at a time

2023-12-18 16:30

Saugeen Ojibway Nation learning ‘everything we can’ about TC Energy’s pumped storage proposal

2023-12-18 12:00

B.C. officials said Coastal GasLink pipeline plans could withstand ‘extreme weather conditions.’ Then the heat came

2023-12-14 14:00

The ‘carbon tax’ isn’t causing inflation. No matter what politicians say

2023-12-13 17:19

From saving owls to removing garbage: the unique work of Penticton Indian Band’s land Guardians

2023-12-12 16:42

The most incredible thing — made possible by readers like you

2023-12-11 20:40

Alberta minister was ready to talk renewables pause at first post-election meeting with regulator: document

2023-12-11 13:00

Farmers are at the centre of Canada’s latest carbon pricing debate

2023-12-08 20:31

Doug Ford says he’s ‘for the people’ — a watchdog says his government shuts them out of decision-making

2023-12-07 21:57

Canada’s plans to crack down on greenwashing don’t go far enough, advocates say

2023-12-07 18:58

Canada thinks LNG exports can reduce carbon pollution. Now it’s digging for proof

2023-12-06 12:00

As the world’s ‘polar bear capital’ waits for ice, bears are increasingly drawn into the streets

2023-12-05 12:00

We followed an old-growth detective into the forest to fact-check B.C.’s suspicious claims about the age of trees

2023-12-04 14:00

100 years of the Williams Treaties in Ontario: Anishinaabeg perspectives

2023-12-01 18:05

The $500,000 fight to protect a Muskoka wetland

2023-11-29 14:01

The unlikely love story of an endangered tree and the little bird who eats its seeds

2023-11-28 14:00

Is B.C. finally getting real about protecting nature?

2023-11-26 15:00

These massive B.C. coal mines are about to get a new owner. Why some are worried about Glencore’s record

2023-11-24 18:35

Despite the risk of military explosives, TC Energy wants to build ‘Ontario’s battery’ on Georgian Bay

2023-11-23 12:00

Canada and other oil-rich countries don’t count emissions from fossil fuel exports. Let’s fix that

2023-11-21 13:00

RSVP now: What does First Nations food sovereignty look like in the face of climate change?

2023-11-20 23:30

Watch: What does First Nations food sovereignty look like in the face of climate change?

2023-11-20 23:30

A dizzying bird’s-eye view of Alberta’s oilsands

2023-11-20 13:00

‘From mountaintop to seafloor’: First Nation declares new 40,000-hectare protected area on B.C. coast

2023-11-17 21:45

Even an NDP government is waffling on carbon prices. What’s next for Canada’s flagship climate plan?

2023-11-17 15:11

It’s complicated: Canadian Museum of Nature rethinks its relationship status with Enbridge

2023-11-16 09:00

The Narwhal wins 3 Webster Awards for outstanding B.C. journalism

2023-11-16 01:39

Killer diets: orcas off Canada’s East Coast threatened by ‘forever chemicals’ in their food

2023-11-15 19:15

How a Supreme Court ruling could affect Highway 413, Ontario Place and the Ring of Fire

2023-11-13 12:00

BC Hydro scrambles to tranquilize and remove bears hibernating in Site C dam flood zone before waters rise

2023-11-10 21:22

Danielle Smith’s government lied about reason for Alberta renewables pause, documents show

2023-11-09 14:00

Danielle Smith’s government made false statements about reason for Alberta renewables pause: documents

2023-11-09 14:00

Tourists’ cars line these Rocky Mountain roads. Soon logging trucks will haul the trees away

2023-11-08 14:00

Trudeau government failing to meet emissions target for 2030, audit finds

2023-11-07 16:03

Small lakes, big studies: what Ontario’s experimental lakes area teaches the world about water

2023-11-07 12:00

Meet Manitoba’s new environment minister

2023-11-06 13:00

Developer warns Rocky Mountain town of severe costs of ‘immoral’ dissent in new open letter

2023-11-03 19:34

A billion dollars for nature in B.C. as long-awaited agreement is signed

2023-11-03 15:00

Access denied: trying to get into Canada’s ‘premier’ pro-coal gathering

2023-11-02 19:50

This might be the most beautiful place on earth. But only half of it is protected — for now

2023-11-01 10:00

‘Pandora’s box is open’: 6,972 pages of internal documents show Ford’s ties to land swaps and staff’s focus on secrecy

2023-10-31 21:59

Did the kidnapping of a Canadian solar power inventor lead to the domination of fossil fuels?

2023-10-31 11:00

Loved to death: the unpopular prospect of closing backcountry roads to save wildlife

2023-10-30 14:00

The legal Atlantic fishery that still sparks violence

2023-10-27 08:00

‘The money that’s needed’: B.C. announces $300-million Indigenous conservation fund to protect old-growth forests

2023-10-27 00:47

A squeaky wheel with data: how Nipissing First Nation is healing environmental damage

2023-10-26 11:00

In a hotter world, Indigenous food sovereignty is key to resilient farms, gardens and communities

2023-10-25 13:59

Chair of Ontario’s Greenbelt Council quit right after he learned of Ford’s land use plans last fall

2023-10-25 11:00

2023-10-24 23:12

Environment ministers rarely have environment experience. Manitoba is adding to the trend

2023-10-24 12:00

Thousands of hectares of Ontario farmland won’t be developed after Ford government backs down

2023-10-23 18:50

What will B.C. do when disaster strikes again?

2023-10-23 13:32

Fish farm escape puts Bay of Fundy wild salmon in jeopardy

2023-10-23 08:00

‘Be grounded more in love than in fear’

2023-10-20 16:30

‘It’s never too late’: Canada taken to court for near-extinction of spotted owls

2023-10-18 22:40

Ontario’s new Greenbelt law, unpacked

2023-10-18 13:00

Suncor boss avoids saying who is most responsible for the climate crisis

2023-10-18 11:00

A mistake is a gift: decolonizing journalism includes missteps and teachings

2023-10-17 14:00

‘Welcome home, dear ancestor’: after nearly a century, a stolen totem pole returns to the Nisg̱a’a Nation

2023-10-17 14:00

Lake Erie is full of algae again. Southwestern Ontario’s exploding greenhouse sector won’t help

2023-10-16 11:00

Alberta just won a big case challenging the feds at the Supreme Court. Here’s what it all means

2023-10-13 13:50

Canada rejects emergency order to save endangered spotted owls

2023-10-11 17:09

‘Hard to believe it’s real’: B.C.’s energy regulator repeatedly gave Coastal GasLink a pass on alleged environmental infractions

2023-10-11 13:58

Vandalism of sacred site in Ontario reveals disregard for First Nations history and presence

2023-10-09 13:00

Ontario Mining Minister George Pirie is about to get a lot more powerful

2023-10-06 11:00

What will it take to make traditional foods thrive again?

2023-10-06 11:00

Danielle Smith’s government is under investigation for its secrecy. Here’s what you need to know

2023-10-05 20:58

Ontario favoured unnamed third parties over experts when forcing Hamilton to expand: court docs

2023-10-05 13:55

What the NDP win in Manitoba means for the environment

2023-10-04 03:38

Nipissing First Nation officials unsettled by tour of North Bay’s new plastics factory

2023-09-28 11:00

Alberta officials did nothing wrong when an oilsands leak went unreported for 9 months, report finds

2023-09-27 20:04

As salmon are ‘cooking’ in hot water, Lake Babine Nation stands up to Fisheries and Oceans Canada

2023-09-27 14:00

Mineral claims require First Nations consultation, B.C. Supreme Court rules

2023-09-27 03:51

Manitoba election 2023: A guide to 9 big climate issues leaders are — and aren’t — talking about

2023-09-26 22:25

Who is Ryan Amato, the political staffer at the centre of Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal?

2023-09-25 11:00

‘Shameful’: Manitoba’s protected areas grew less than 0.1% in seven years

2023-09-23 12:00

‘Shameful’: Manitoba’s protected areas grew less than 1% in seven years

2023-09-23 12:00

Doug Ford reverses Greenbelt decision

2023-09-21 19:39

Inside the World Petroleum Congress and the pushback against net zero

2023-09-21 19:30

Restoring the flow: Tsleil-Waututh’s race to save salmon habitat in drought stricken southwest B.C.

2023-09-21 17:24

‘Treated like machines’: wildfire fighters describe a mental health crisis on the frontlines

2023-09-20 16:08

Climate strikes are back — has anything changed?

2023-09-18 23:18

What is the Trans Mountain pipeline — and why should I care?

2023-09-18 11:00

‘Crisis’: Manitoba Environment staff cut 70% since Progressive Conservatives took power

2023-09-16 12:00

Slow and steady: the exciting world of slug racing

2023-09-15 15:04

Tracing the sticky history of slug races

2023-09-15 15:04

‘This has to stop’: oilsands, hydro dams continue to threaten Canada’s largest national park

2023-09-14 22:30

Alberta’s renewables pause is leaving billions of dollars in limbo. Here’s what you need to know

2023-09-14 20:25

The Narwhal picks up three 2023 Webster Awards nominations

2023-09-14 18:22

Fighting for food sovereignty amid worsening wildfires

2023-09-13 15:37

‘Illegal’ mining claims discovered in park as Manitoba government pushes for exploration

2023-09-12 23:04

‘Frustrating as hell’: advocates say old-growth still being cut years after B.C. promised protections

2023-09-12 00:57

‘Frustrating as hell’: advocates say old-growth still being cut years after protections promised

2023-09-12 00:57

In its push to build houses, Ontario says energy efficiency has to wait

2023-09-11 11:00

Many Manitoba parks are open to mining. Now an industry group wants to ‘suspend all protected areas’

2023-09-09 12:00

B.C. has tools to protect at-risk species from logging. Why isn’t it using them?

2023-09-08 15:00

Farmers know they create a huge share of Canada’s emissions. Now they’re seriously counting them

2023-09-08 13:00

Gitanyow celebrates the return of salmon as B.C. inches toward recognizing the nation’s protected area

2023-09-07 16:12

What does a ‘review’ of Ontario’s Greenbelt mean for the environment?

2023-09-06 19:51

A company was forced to reduce logging in Haida Gwaii’s old-growth forests. Now they’re suing for $75M

2023-09-06 15:08

More than 90% of Saskatchewan’s heavy oil sites don’t measure pollution: scientist

2023-09-05 11:00

Manitoba election 2023: A guide to what leaders are (and aren’t) promising on climate

2023-09-02 11:00

In this Rocky Mountain wildlife corridor, a luxury development forges ahead despite fierce opposition

2023-08-31 13:18

Mr. X, private lunches and ‘untrained’ staff: how Ontario’s housing minister was found to have breached ethics rules over Greenbelt

2023-08-30 23:54

BC Hydro apologizes for $128 million Site C dam data error

2023-08-30 19:44

LNG Canada wants to go electric. The B.C. government wants taxpayers to cover the cost

2023-08-25 13:19

What it’s like to flee a wildfire in B.C.

2023-08-25 00:18

For leaders in the heart of oil country, our wildfire reality is still shrouded in smoke

2023-08-24 14:43

Ontario’s information watchdog is considering ‘potential next steps’ on alleged deleted Greenbelt emails

2023-08-24 10:59

Safety inspections are required on inactive Alberta oil and gas wells. Thousands are overdue

2023-08-22 12:00

Meet Bonnie Lysyk, the author of the bombshell report on Ontario’s Greenbelt and developer influence

2023-08-21 16:50

Ktunaxa Nation pushed for an international inquiry into coal mining pollution for more than a decade. Is B.C. now on board?

2023-08-21 12:00

Greenbelt updates: after newly developable land listed for sale, Ford threatens to restore protections

2023-08-17 18:17

Greenbelt updates: Ontario housing minister’s chief of staff resigns

2023-08-17 18:17

Greenbelt updates: RCMP assessing ‘irregularities’

2023-08-17 18:17

Greenbelt updates: RCMP launches investigation

2023-08-17 18:17

Greenbelt update: what’s happened since the auditor general’s report

2023-08-17 18:17

Doug Ford says building on the Greenbelt will help immigrants achieve the ‘Ontario dream’. Here’s why he’s (still) wrong

2023-08-17 11:00

An existential threat to online news in Canada

2023-08-17 00:38

A community transformed from mining town to resort destination. It doesn’t want to go back

2023-08-16 18:40

Bad catch: the fish that’s threatened even if you release it

2023-08-15 13:49

Canada’s wettest province faces historic drought — and a precarious new future

2023-08-10 13:00

The Doug Ford government and Ontario’s Greenbelt: a timeline

2023-08-09 19:25

Ontario housing minister’s chief of staff chose Greenbelt land parcels to benefit developers: auditor general

2023-08-09 15:00

Footprints in the sand: what you don’t know can really hurt the Great Lakes’ fragile dunes

2023-08-08 11:00

Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s scientific advice undermined by industry and political influence: researchers

2023-08-04 14:00

Site C dam builder fined $1.1 million for discharging contaminated wastewater

2023-08-02 17:51

‘Sell them for nothing or watch them starve’: farmers face difficult decisions amid B.C. drought

2023-08-02 11:00

Peatlands are swampy vaults for toxic chemicals. Wildfires are setting those toxins loose

2023-08-01 12:00

The mysterious death of Grace, a beloved 125-year-old snapping turtle

2023-07-28 11:00

Canada lacks data on how wildfire smoke affects minority communities, experts say

2023-07-27 12:00

B.C. is weighing the merits of appointing a ‘chief ecologist,’ internal docs show

2023-07-26 15:00

In Canada’s coldest city, homes were built for warmth. Now they’re way, way too hot

2023-07-26 11:00

Duffins Rouge was the Greenbelt’s ‘crown jewel.’ Over 5 days in June, developers bought 524 acres of it

2023-07-25 23:00

B.C. to feds: don’t issue emergency order to save the endangered spotted owl

2023-07-25 12:00

Ontario minister was privately urged to fix ‘high-risk gap’ to avoid mining disaster

2023-07-24 11:00

On the frontlines of B.C.’s wildfire fight

2023-07-21 11:00

How to stay connected with climate news in Canada

2023-07-20 23:31

North Bay residents organize town hall to discuss PFAS, Industrial Plastics Canada factory

2023-07-20 16:29

B.C. may see $1.2 billion in conservation funding through nature agreement

2023-07-19 21:22

From plovers to friends: how a feathery love triangle spurred Canada and the U.S. to save tiny endangered birds

2023-07-19 11:00

‘Are you kidding me?’: B.C. sanctions shooting, logging in endangered spotted owl habitat

2023-07-18 17:52

‘Outrageously bad’: Alberta taxpayers pick up another multimillion tab for oil companies’ land rent

2023-07-18 11:00

No conviction for Six Nations’ Skyler Williams over 1492 Land Back Lane land defence

2023-07-14 11:00

‘We’re going to make things better’: Yukon First Nations adopt youth climate plan

2023-07-13 20:57

Bears aren’t as deadly as you’ve been taught

2023-07-13 11:00

Canada isn’t sold on mining the world’s oceans. A Canadian company is diving in anyways

2023-07-12 16:52

Sounds like a broken record: why climate change keeps outdoing itself

2023-07-11 20:18

The North is key to Canada’s critical mineral rush. Will its environment be protected this time?

2023-07-10 11:00

Scientists are figuring out how boreal forest wildfires affect our feathered friends

2023-07-07 12:00

Chemicals are forever: a new factory opens near Lake Nipissing, where water is already contaminated

2023-07-06 11:00

There’s a place for B.C.’s gas in a net-zero future. But not for long

2023-07-05 15:00

Oilsands giants pushed feds to delay and weaken emissions cap rules

2023-07-05 11:00

30,000 homes proposed for Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve, former ‘crown jewel’ of Ontario’s Greenbelt

2023-07-04 16:39

‘Hope and fear in equal measure’: renewables racing against a heating world

2023-06-30 13:05

Manitoba’s environment watchdog isn’t sold on a massive silica sand mine — what’s next?

2023-06-29 17:49

What causes wildfires? Lightning, people, climate change … and obsessively putting them out

2023-06-27 11:00

Doug Ford’s feedback was in document mentioning Greenbelt months before changes were announced

2023-06-26 11:00

Life in a northern B.C. boomtown

2023-06-23 12:00

RSVP now: let’s talk about Canada’s wildfires

2023-06-22 23:14

Watch: Let’s talk about Canada’s wildfires

2023-06-22 23:14

Not everyone in Canada can swim. A former Olympic coach in Waterloo is trying to change that

2023-06-22 11:00

Vancouver’s development destroyed Burrard Inlet. Tsleil-Waututh Nation is determined to save it

2023-06-21 11:00

Can good things still grow in Ontario? Development push adds pressure to shrinking farmland

2023-06-20 11:00

Can good things still grow in Ontario? Development push adds to pressures on shrinking farmland

2023-06-20 11:00

The future of conservation in Canada depends on Indigenous protected areas. So what are they?

2023-06-19 16:07

The Narwhal wins three Canadian Journalism Foundation awards

2023-06-15 20:31

Ontario is ignoring internal advice that supported Indigenous-led conservation

2023-06-15 12:00

In B.C.’s bone-dry northeast, what happens when wildfires and fracking collide?

2023-06-14 22:43

It isn’t arson: untangling climate misinformation around Canada’s raging wildfires

2023-06-14 15:48

‘Why didn’t they stop this fire?’ Métis community reeling after planned protected area goes up in flames

2023-06-13 14:47

Which Toronto mayoral candidate has the best plan to tackle climate change?

2023-06-13 11:00

Suncor fires back at critics of plan to sever wetland for oilsands project

2023-06-12 13:00

Six Nations’ huge battery project is the future of energy supply in Ontario — and maybe all of Canada

2023-06-12 11:00

‘A toxic soup’: why a Winnipeg neighbourhood is fighting for its right to a healthy environment

2023-06-09 21:32

Suncor helped write ‘first draft’ of Canadian plan for tackling carbon emissions

2023-06-08 11:08