Climate & Environment

Federal party leaders are renewing calls to expand Canada’s pipeline network, thrusting a long-dormant debate over eastbound oil infrastructure back into the spotlight.

Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are attacking humans in the water. The animals are being poisoned by the ocean they live in, experts say, citing reports of sick sea lions at unprecedented levels. And many are dying.

Lego opened a US$1 billion factory in Vietnam on Wednesday that it says will make toys without adding planet-warming gas to the atmosphere by relying entirely on clean energy.

The Liberals’ move to end the consumer carbon price, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and annexation talk, have pushed concerns about climate policy to the bottom of the pile.

The woman who was removed from a storm drain in Poway has died, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Scientists were bracing for high lava fountains Tuesday during the latest episode of an ongoing eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano.

Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east, the head of the park told AFP on Tuesday.

Residents in northern Ontario are being asked not to prune any oak trees for the next several months to prevent the spread of a devastating tree disease that has made its way to Canada.

Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are attacking humans in the water. The animals are being poisoned by the ocean they live in, experts say, citing reports of sick sea lions at unprecedented levels. And many are dying.

Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding came Saturday for parts of the South and Midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of severe storms that also spawned deadly tornadoes. Forecasters warned that rivers in some places would continue to rise for days.

One of the premier institutions for hurricane research in the world has released its first forecast for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

A wasting disease tore through all varieties of sea stars along the North American West Coast in 2013, wiping out most of the population.

A project proposed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll could harm the many seabirds that nest at the wildlife refuge, according to biologists and experts who have spent more than a decade working to protect them.

A volcano began erupting in southwestern Iceland on Tuesday, just hours after authorities evacuated a nearby community and a geothermal spa, one of Iceland’s biggest tourist attractions.

A powerful storm lashed the Greek islands of Paros and Mykonos on Monday, triggering widespread flooding and prompting authorities to close schools and impose a ban on all traffic except emergency vehicles.