Nature & Environment news

In a flood and highwater update Friday, the province said widespread rain — up to 100 mm — is forecast for many southern Manitoba watersheds over the next week or so.

Bookings for over 300 more campsites will begin on Monday, July 6. Reservations will open at set times throughout the day.

Some types of blue-green algae can produce toxins that are harmful to people and pets.

Alberta Fish and Wildlife officers are investigating reports that a coyote was shot and killed in a central Edmonton neighbourhood. 

The province did not purchase any Halifax Common land for the construction of the 500-space parkade on Summer St.

In the video, two young girls are seen feeding what appear to be crackers and French fries two bear cubs and a sow from the open doors and windows of their home.

'This case is about more than a risky pipeline and tanker project; it is a major setback for reconciliation,' Tsleil-Waututh Chief Leah George-Wilson said.

Around 4,000 homes in five different Winnipeg neighbourhoods are set to be tapped by the city to participate in a residential food waste collection pilot project.

Making temporary adjustments to the Halifax's use of streets and sidewalks is a mobility response to COVID-19, the city says.

The project will double the irrigable land in Saskatchewan within 10 years, according to the government.

UBC Okanagan engineering students and professors are researching how to improve the efficiency and cost associated with charging electric vehicles.

Cities around the Hamilton-Niagara region have opened up cooling centres to avoid the onset of heat-related illnesses.

The dismissal effectively ends a years-long legal battle over the Trans Mountain pipeline approval.

The regional district said the problem had been traced to a leaky valve, and that water service along Buchanan Road could be restored by 6 p.m.

WorkSafeBC said in its stop-work order that the 'refuse site may be cross-contaminated with asbestos-containing materials.'

Many Winnipeggers are feeling extra bugged by mosquitoes this year and the city says there's been a recent spike.

Police said the inflatable raft, which was carrying eight people, floated away at St. Ambroise Beach around 3 p.m.

Residents will be able to have their say on the future of the green space formerly known as the Candiac golf course.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is calling on the public to participate in virtual public consultations in regards to the Grand Parc de L'Ouest.

The calf and its mother, right whale #3560, were first spotted in mid-December 2019.

The City of Moncton in warning residents of a pre-bloom of blue-green algae in Irishtown Nature Park.

A Calgary golfer is being credited with saving a seven-year-old boy in the Sheep River south of the city on Friday.

A noise reduction of up to 75 per cent could have a big impact on orcas, who use sound to communicate, hunt and map their environment.

The waste pile on Green Mountain Road was left behind after Appleton Waste Services, a business that leased the land, declared itself insolvent.

The city says though localized flooding continues to occur, water levels in the Shuswap River have gone down recently.

A dog walker in southwest Calgary is thankful her dog is still alive after an encounter with a bear on Wednesday.

'The way it all was presented to us in the beginning, was that we were wrecking Odell Park,' said the owner of a Fredericton bike shop.

The utility cites opposition from local Indigenous people in its decision to not bury the nuclear waste.

Around 11:45 p.m. officers were called to Hwy. 115 at Porter Road in Cavan-Monaghan Township for reports of a horse on the highway.

The record-setting 'megaflashes' were the longest ever seen by distance and time.

The Water Security Agency says treatment centre operators diverted thousands of litres of wastewater following an oil spill at the Co-op Refinery.

Three people were rescued after they became stranded on an inflatable toy boat on Lake Simcoe Tuesday, York Regional Police say.

The province said the cubs were spotted wandering for several days and weren't likely to survive on their own.

A video posted to social media shows the seal sunbathing on a floating dock in Laval, close to where the Mille Îles River joins the St. Lawrence River.

The Atlantic Salmon Federation's annual "State of Wild Atlantic Salmon Report" released today indicates returns for large salmon were the third lowest in the past five decades.

Dalhousie University researcher Laura Feyrer found she and other researchers could only observe the elusive mammals from rare sightings far off the coast of Nova Scotia.

An Edmonton doctor has found an untapped way to get to work in the city. Dr. Darren Markland takes a canoe down the North Saskatchewan River. 

Proton Technologies has deployed its patented process to extract hydrogen from underground near Kerrobert, Sask.

Summer's officially here, and while Winnipeg may not be living up to its reputation as a mosquito hotspot so far, that doesn't mean you should let your guard down.

The primary mandate of Saskatchewan’s nuclear secretariat is the development and execution of a strategic plan for the deployment of small modular reactors.

The report by the Marine Animal Response Society and the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative says necropsies were done on five of the nine whales found dead between June and July 2019.

A new report that looked at the 2017 evacuation from Pelican Narrows, Sask., due to wildlife is calling for the cultural development of emergency management protocols.

Lamont County has declared an agricultural disaster because of wet conditions flooding fields.

The regional district also issued an evacuation alert for another seven properties in the Lee Creek area, north of Salmon Arm.

The province had initially planned to fully or partially close 20 provincial parks and hand off another 164 to third-party managers.

Environmental critics had been demanding the government reinstate the monitoring, questioning why it was shut down while other energy operations were deemed essential and allowed to continue.

The regional district issued the notice due to spring runoff and lake level changes, which has led to increased turbidity, or cloudiness, levels.

As seen from space, a huge dust plume is making an 8,000-km trek to the southern United States.

Nova Scotia, however, is still moving ahead with the end of October for its plastic bag ban.

A major forest fire north of Lac-St-Jean remained out of control Monday, but authorities said they are hopeful that rain forecast for later this week will help firefighters battling the blaze. The fire, which started in an area called Chutes-des-Passes last week, has grown to cover an area of more than 72,000 hectares, but forest...