Tag Archives: Environment
Melfort participating in Drowning Prevention Week
The City of Melfort and the Northern Lights Palace Pool are trying to raise awareness about water safety.This week (July 16-22) is National Drowning Prevention Week, and the city and pool have organiz...
Jul 19, 2023
Oil and gas methane reductions less expensive than paying carbon tax, study finds
New research using the latest figures for Canada's methane emissions concludes it would be much cheaper for the energy industry to meet reduction targets for the potent greenhouse gas than it would be...
Jul 19, 2023
First Nation loses homes in wildfire near Cranbrook, B.C., Eby says
VANCOUVER - A First Nation community in southeastern B.C. has lost homes because of a fast-moving wildfire, and Premier David Eby says the provincial and federal governments are teaming up to provide ...
Jul 19, 2023
Filmmaker James Cameron calls Titan submersible implosion 'extreme outlier'
Canadian filmmaker and deepsea explorer James Cameron said Tuesday that the implosion of the Titan submersible that killed five people last month was an extreme outlier in decades of safe exploration....
Jul 18, 2023
Ontario, Quebec to see more tornado 'fuel,' but more data needed
MONTREAL - Climate change will likely bring more weather conditions to Ontario and Quebec that are favourable to the development of tornadoes, but it's still unclear whether Central Canada will actual...
Jul 18, 2023
British Columbia's record-breaking wildfire season, by the numbers
British Columbia's wildfire season is now the most destructive on record, with about 14,000 square kilometres of the province burned, surpassing the previous high of 13,543 square kilometres set in 20...
Jul 18, 2023
Harvest begins for northern fireweed and mushrooms
Chantarelle mushroom buyers are offering $10 per pound for the boreal delicacy, the highest amount paid since at least 2018. Chanterelles are the most sought-after mushroom in northern Saskatchewan, p...
Jul 18, 2023
Drones, ATVs hamper B.C.'s wildfire fighting efforts during record-breaking season
Firefighters battling hundreds of blazes in British Columbia say they've been facing more than the usual obstacles when "irresponsible" members of the public interfere with operations. The BC Wildfire...
Jul 18, 2023
Charged up: report says Canada's looming power problem is massive, not insurmountable
OTTAWA - Canada must build more electricity generation in the next 25 years than it has over the last century in order to support a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, according to a new report from t...
Jul 18, 2023
Scientists head to Nunavut island to help solve Mars methane mystery
AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND, NUNAVUT - A team of researchers has travelled to a remote Arctic island in the hopes of better understanding the possibility of life on Mars. Astrobiologist Haley Sapers, an adjun...
Jul 18, 2023