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If activist Zain Haq is deported to Pakistan on Saturday, Canada would become the first country in the world to deport a non-violent climate protester, says federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

A new large-scale reservoir project in Chapman Creek watershed is getting millions in federal funds as climate change causes a string of severe summer droughts and stringent water bans on the southern B.C. coast.

The federal Conservative leader's speech to a packed B.C. audience didn't address how he’d tackle incoming U.S. president Donald Trump’s promise to impose a potentially devastating 25-per-cent tariff on Canadian goods.

The new Community Transformations Project has pinpointed the Canadian communities and workforces most vulnerable to disruption with the global transition to a net zero economy.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) staff were unimpressed with the proposed framework to address the surging problem of noise pollution, internal communications obtained by Canada’s National Observer suggest.

Salt levels in streams as a result of winter road clearing can be ten times higher than regulated limits at sensitive stages of coho salmon development, UBC researchers find.

The BC NDP Government and Green Party have hashed out new confidence and supply agreement focused on common ground rather than points of contention to bolster the NDP’s slim margin in the legislature after the recent election.

Deep Water Recovery is facing another warning and threat of fines for its controversial Vancouver Island ship breaking operation on the shores of Baynes Sound.

The province's new renewable initiatives are historic step forward in energy partnerships with First Nations, says BC Hydro.

Boaters can use a innovative new online tool to choose eco-friendly products and clean up their act when it comes to washing toxic chemicals into waterways and oceans while maintaining their vessels.

Overfishing, combined with finning — a cruel and wasteful practice where live sharks are caught during targeted fisheries or as bycatch, then have their fins sliced off before discarded overboard to die are pushing shark populations to the brink of extinction.

Plankton, the key ingredients of the primordial ocean soup that allowed all life to flourish, are central to a new UN manifesto highlighting the big role the microscopic creatures can play in tackling the triple threat of global warming, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Climate change and over harvesting continue to put Canadian fisheries at risk along with Indigenous and coastal communities’ food security and economic wellbeing, a new report indicates.

West coast environmental groups argue no measure would save southern resident whales from a catastrophic oil spill.

WSÁNEĆ Hereditary chiefs are urging federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier to close the last commercial herring fishery operating along the West Coast.