MONTREAL – About 600 firefighters battled dozens of forest fires in northern Quebec this week as a 200-kilometre (125-mile) wide … Continue reading Quebec wildfires spread smoke, smog over wide area

A senior research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service warns we could see more fires like the House River fire … Continue reading FOREST FIRES MORE COMMON IN GLOBAL WARMING

Environmentalists are cheering a decision by the federal government to help build a wildlife crossing near Canmore. http://edmonton.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=lt_06102002 Continue reading FEDS BUILDING SAFE PASSAGE FOR GRIZZLIES, WOLVES, ELK AND DEER

Visitors to Prince Albert National Park will learn more about the region's cultural roots this summer. http://sask.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=papark020610 Continue reading INDIAN CULTURE TO BE ENHANCED IN P.A. PARK

REGINA – An anti-GMO farmer is slamming an ad campaign that sings the virtues of bio-technology, saying it is more … Continue reading Bio-tech ads get thumbs down from farmer

Vancouver – Some Surrey residents are upset with Southern Railway of B.C. for blocking plans to open up a fish … Continue reading Railway blocking plans for salmon gateway

VANCOUVER – Canada has a leadership position in the development of fuel cell technology but needs a comprehensive strategy to … Continue reading Study urges Canadian fuel cell strategy

TORONTO – The world's biggest annual biotechnology conference opened in Toronto yesterday, providing a forum for boosters as well as … Continue reading Annual biotechnology conference opens in Toronto

TORONTO – Three of North America's Great Lakes – Lake Huron, Lake Superior and Lake Erie – have frozen over … Continue reading Icy weather freezes surface of three Great Lakes

DAWSON CITY, YUKON – Western Canadian premiers want a national debate and a first ministers' meeting on the Kyoto accord … Continue reading Western premiers ask Ottawa to consider Kyoto options

WINNIPEG, Manitoba – The third case of chronic wasting disease, a disorder similar to mad cow disease, has been found … Continue reading Canada finds another deer with wasting disease

VICTORIA, June 8 /CNW/ – The Honourable David Anderson, Canada's Minister of the Environment, and Sheila Orr, MLA for Victoria-Hillside, … Continue reading Green Legacies – A Donor’s Guide for British Columbia