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When Ellen Rice-Hogan discovered that someone had bought a mining claim under her farm, she was shocked.

Nova Scotians already buried under as much as 80 centimetres of snow hunkered down and braced for even more on Sunday as a powerful storm hovering over the province was poised to linger well into a third day.

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations Cindy Woodhouse is trying to make inroads with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, hoping to forestall the tensions and angst that marked the party's last time in power.

The University of Michigan and McMaster University have launched a new global centre for climate change that aims to incorporate Indigenous knowledge to address water crises across the world.

Despite the rich history of the baffling behaviour, the science of why insects gather around lights at night has never been nailed down. Popular theories propose that moths navigate by the moon and mistake lamps for moonlight or that the insects fly toward light to escape imminent danger.

Canada can turn the tide and deliver its long-promised underwater noise strategy with fast and effective regulations that will cut the clamour of human activity polluting oceans and harming marine life everywhere, say conservation groups.

The hitmaker whose dominance of pop culture now includes the first tour to gross more than $1 billion, is the latest in a long list of celebrities, government officials and elite businesspeople to come under scrutiny about private jet travel.

Investors and would-be suppliers need incentives to start churning out the greener oil, industry groups say. They're hoping Ottawa can match programs in the U.S. and ultimately help cut airplane pollution, which accounts for about two per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions.

The courtroom gallery erupted with applause as Judge John Law told Thunberg and her four co-defendants to stand and told them they were cleared of the criminal charge of breaching the Public Order Act. The judge cited “significant deficiencies in the evidence” presented by the prosecutor.

New information about high level of pollution were published in a the journal Environmental Pollution by provincial government scientists who were not made available to speak to reporters,

University of British Columbia bee researcher Alison McAfee says the extreme highs and lows are particularly dangerous to bumblebee populations since "false springs" could make queens emerge prematurely from hibernation.

A commission of inquiry into foreign interference will hear from Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc today, as it looks for ways to make as much information public as possible.

The federal government is lashing out at the U.S. Commerce Department over plans to raise duties on Canadian softwood lumber.

A provincial court justice of the peace has upheld the Quebec government's imposition of curfews during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding several people guilty of breaking the health order during a protest.

How does someone committed to sustainability make for such a believable monster?