The Minister signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation for cooperative measures to explore the feasibility of a new national park off the East Arm of Great Slave... Read More

The review, presented today by UK Treasury Minister Gordon Brown and the lead author, former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern, makes a clear economic case for immediate action against global warming. In... Read More

A black cloud is coming… Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006 Time: 8:45 a.m. Place: Metro Hall Square 55 John Street, Toronto Today, a black cloud will descend upon Toronto. The cloud will be made... Read More

The report released today, “Implications of a 2°C global temperature rise on Canada’s water resources: Athabasca River and Great Lakes as case studies,” shows that Canada’s seemingly endless freshwater supplies are not only finite,... Read More

Recent federal government decisions in regard to the Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary demonstrate that the current outdated approach to resource allocation in the delta must be changed to avoid disastrous long-term results for this... Read More

The recently released proposal for a Clean Air Act, intensity-based controls which would allow emissions to increase until at least 2025, and the cold-shoulder to the Kyoto Protocol, are firmly on the “naughty” side... Read More

Polar bears hunt, feed, mate and frequently den on the sea ice. Yet this ocean habitat is vanishing as a result of warming air and sea temperatures over the last decades, caused by the... Read More

The call comes as a UN conference on the vulnerability of small island developing states gets underway in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean — the area severely impacted by the tsunami. “Healthy ecosystems can... Read More

The Eastern Scotian Shelf Integrated Management (ESSIM) Forum Workshop, led by the Oceans and Coastal Management Division of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, will bring close to150 people from government, industry and other sectors together... Read More

“These solutions safeguard our living oceans,” said Carter Roberts, president and CEO-elect, World Wildlife Fund. “When World Wildlife Fund began the Smart Gear competition, we looked for real-world solutions to protect the fantastic variety... Read More

If passed before the end of the session, it would stop operators in the shipping industry who pollute Canada’s waters intentionally or through negligence. “The Senate has the ability to pass Bill C-15 immediately,”... Read More

The Bill, which has now become law, is designed to bring an end to the dumping of bilge oil from ships, which results in the deaths of some 300,000 seabirds annually off the coast... Read More