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New laws are on the horizon for Canada’s aquaculture industry, but environmentalists are wary the proposed legislation might not be enough to protect the country’s oceans.

Earlier this month, the federal government proposed a suite of changes to Canada’s fishing regulations that will force DFO to bring depleted commercial fish stocks back to abundant levels. It’s a move advocates say is a step in the right direction, but still might not be enough.

Fisheries appear to be taking a more prominent role in B.C. Premier John Horgan’s new cabinet.

Alberta has signed an agreement with the federal government that makes major cuts to environmental monitoring of the oilsands.

The federal environment minister is backtracking on a previous decision to keep Ottawa out of the approval process for a major coal mine expansion in Alberta.

First Nations leaders who have called on their communities to return to the land to find food during the COVID-19 pandemic are also seeing people reconnect with their traditions.

Ontario's wildlife will likely experience a population boom thanks to an ongoing state of emergency that is keeping most people in the province at home, a pair of experts say.

At least 250 unaccounted for after heavy rainfall across Pacific north-west overwhelmed cage of fish waiting to be released

Amid a lethal outbreak, China faces growing calls to ban wild animal markets for good.

The escape of an estimated 20,000 non-native fish off Vancouver Island demonstrates the urgent need to phase out ocean-based farming and calls into question the federal government's own five-year deadline, say wild salmon advocates.

A new national study of nutrition among First Nations has found rates of obesity and diabetes that are significantly higher than the general Canadian population.

Four federal leaders will take the stage in Montreal on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, for the first debate to feature Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

An extensive study of hundreds of bird species across decades worth of data has for the first time estimated how badly numbers of even the most common birds have shrunk.

The U.S. government is being urged to pressure Canada to do more to protect the endangered North American right whale population in order to avoid a ban on various Canadian seafood products.

We went into the depths of the ocean with a scientist seeking to understand how frozen gas deposits might respond in a rapidly warming world.