Environment News

Alberta entomologist Kevin Floate is ready to start spreading the news that he has compiled a comprehensive guide into insects that live in cow dung in Canada.

EDMONTON — Few governments have seen as many environmental dust-ups as Alberta's United Conservatives in their four-year tenure. They tried delisting parks and opening the Rocky Mountains to coal mining.

Woodland Cree Elder Leonard Cardinal, his wife and their son prepared more than 100 bagged lunches earlier this week and delivered them to evacuees from Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, a northwestern Alberta community hit hard by one of the dozens of wild

Japanese and South Korean officials held hourslong talks into early Saturday and agreed on a visit later this month by South Korean experts to the Fukushima nuclear plant before it begins the controversial release of treated but radioactive water int

PORTLAND, Ore.

SPUZZUM, B.C. — Two northern spotted owls that had been released into a British Columbia forest last year have been found dead, potentially reducing the known wild population in the province to a single female.

HOUSTON, B.C. — British Columbia environment enforcement officers have issued another stop-work order for the Coastal GasLink pipeline project over erosion and sediment control, something the company promised it would stay on top of last year.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge on Friday said a climate change lawsuit from young people challenging the state's pro-fossil fuel policies will proceed to trial despite efforts by the state to derail the case.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.

SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. — Mounties say 12 people have been sent to hospital following a series of highway collisions involving nearly three dozen vehicles east of Edmonton.