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CALGARY — An Alberta community where an accident caused sewage to flow into a river that feeds Calgary's water supply says it remains focused on stopping the leak.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Tammy unleashed heavy rain in the northeast Caribbean on Monday as it spun over open waters after making landfall in Barbuda. The storm was located about 695 miles (1,115 kilometers) south of Bermuda.

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WASHINGTON — The federal government and Enbridge Inc. are trying to exploit a "dormant" and outdated treaty with the United States to forestall the shutdown of the Line 5 pipeline, human rights and environmental groups argue in new court documents.

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HALIFAX — The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales appears to be stabilizing after years of discouraging declines, according to new data released Monday by an international team of marine scientists.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute is recommending that governments across the country develop a national plan to sustainably manage and use water for the agri-food sector.

No matter how much the world cuts back on carbon emissions , a key and sizable chunk of Antarctica is essentially doomed to an “unavoidable” melt, a new study found. Though the full melt will take hundreds of years, slowly adding nearly 6 feet (1.

TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said the discharge of the second batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea ended as planned on Monday, and International Atomic Energy Agency officials in Japan for the