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B.C. election casts uncertainty over future of Indigenous protected area

Dene Kʼéh Kusān, a massive proposed protected area in Kaska territory, would bring the province closer to the BC NDP's conservation goals. But a change in government could mean a change in priorities

B.C.biodiversity

What does Bill C-39 mean for First Nations? Senators question Carney government

The controversial bill reshapes how Indigenous communities weigh in on major mining, oil and gas and infrastructure projects in Canada — and shortens timelines for environmental review

federal politicsIndigenous Rights

Rocky relationships in Devil’s Glen Provincial Park

Tensions over rock climbing in the Ontario provincial park are running high — and 1,000 pages of emails show how it got so bad

OntarioNewsletter

The helicopter-powered quest to save salmon in B.C.

An ambitious restoration project in Tla-o-qui-aht territory is using engineered logjams to rebuild salmon habitat in the degraded Tranquil Creek watershed

B.C.biodiversity

Climate issues are taking a back seat in B.C.’s election

The NDP offers nothing new. The Conservatives aren’t talking. And the Greens are climate-focused but unlikely to form B.C.’s next government

Life alongside the impacts of Alberta’s fracking boom

Locals say the creeks are dry and the roads are ruined. Here’s what life is like in a rural Albertan fracking hot spot

Tensions climb in Devil’s Glen

Scientists have been warning for decades that rock climbing is harming species on a particular stretch of the Niagara Escarpment. The Ontario government officially sanctioned climbing there this year

Endangered Speciesfoi

Frustrated with government inaction, Quebec First Nation takes caribou conservation fight to court

The Lac Simon Anishnabe Nation has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, arguing its failure to protect the caribou from the impacts of mining and forestry threatens their members' constitutional rights

biodiversitycaribou

Hikers push to protect backcountry trails in Rocky Mountain national parks

Access to wide swaths of the mountain parks is cut off, but some argue that’s good for wildlife

A view inside a network of fossil fuel advocates

These documents, prepared for a meeting of groups advocating for the oil and gas industry, were hiding in plain sight

oil and gasNewsletter

Lake Ontario: Donald Trump and the great distraction

‘If you can’t understand the lakes, you can’t protect the lakes’: a former director of the committee overseeing Canada-U.S. water relations says the real threat to the Great Lakes is a shift away from research and monitoring

Democracyenvironmental law

A polar bear cub lost his mom. He’ll spend the rest of his life in a zoo

Some say moving orphan bears to zoos can help raise awareness of broader issues. Others say we could do better

Manitobawildlife