Tag Archives: Environment
This B.C. farm can grow softball-sized peaches. This year they'll rely on vegetables
One of the first indicators of how bountiful a fruit harvest will be in British Columbia comes months before any peaches, apricots or nectarines start fattening on trees. Like many other farmers, Jenn...
Mar 12, 2024
Citing poaching, violent incidents, Ottawa says elver fishery won’t open this year
OTTAWA - The federal fisheries minister says the lucrative elver fishery will stay closed for the 2024 season. Diane Lebouthillier says confrontations and incidents of violence have created an "immedi...
Mar 11, 2024
Deepsea eruption expected off Vancouver Island after 200 earthquakes in an hour
An eruption of magma under the Pacific Ocean floor far off Vancouver Island will be so hot the water will fizz but only scientists will notice. Scientists with Ocean Networks Canada are predicting an ...
Mar 11, 2024
U.S., Canada agree to work together on reducing B.C. coal mine pollution
The United States and Canada have agreed to launch a joint probe into a long-running cross-border dispute involving pollution from coal mines in British Columbia flowing into American waters. "Our two...
Mar 11, 2024
'Clean slate' to reshape B.C. wine industry, after climate-related catastrophes
The heart of British Columbia's wine industry is reeling after suffering a litany of climate-related hits, resulting in two years of crop losses in the southern Interior. Record-breaking heat. Wildfir...
Mar 11, 2024
New Brunswick volunteers build flying telescope to see total eclipse above the clouds
HALIFAX - Early next month, millions of Canadians will gaze skyward to witness a total solar eclipse. But some stand to be disappointed as clouds get in the way. David Hunter plans to have an unobstru...
Mar 10, 2024
Rising water: Quebec lender ending new mortgages in flood zones 'just the beginning'
MONTREAL - Nearly five years after floods raced through hundreds of Quebec communities and forced thousands from their homes, a major lender's decision to stop issuing new mortgages in flood zones is ...
Mar 10, 2024
Lingering winter storm to dump more snow in N.L. today, high winds also expected
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A lingering storm system that dumped heavy amounts of snow on eastern Newfoundland over a two-day period gradually tapered off on Saturday. The region's residents began digging out ...
Mar 09, 2024
Refinery in Burnaby, B.C., to resume operations after seven-week stoppage
BURNABY, B.C. - The Parkland fuel refinery in Metro Vancouver is set to resume operations Sunday, seven weeks after an "unplanned issue" forced it to shut down. A statement on Parkland's website says ...
Mar 08, 2024
Government closes bottom-contact fishing near rare B.C. coral reef
VANCOUVER - Federal authorities have closed Canada's only known live coral reef in the Pacific Ocean to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fishing. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the ind...
Mar 07, 2024