In a victory for the Liberal government, the Federal Court of Appeal has upheld its decision to list plastics as toxic, enabling Ottawa to ban single-use plastic items.

Some Atlantic salmon conservation groups in Cape Breton are raising the alarm after a federal advisory committee changed the fish's status to endangered throughout Nova Scotia and the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.

As London, Ont., deals with a deep freeze and a shortage of road salt, researchers at Western University say they're looking into some ice-clearing alternatives.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we see the blooming changes that hikers have noticed in the U.K., get a look at EV models with built-in solar panels and check out an award-winning forest grown from memorial trees.

Studying close to 800 bears over nearly 25 years shows that polar bear populations in the rapidly warming Barents Sea, off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, are doing better than polar bears in other parts of the Arctic.

A British Columbia woman is warning dog owners to watch what their pets touch on walks, after her two-year-old husky overdosed on cocaine. The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association says this is a problem across Canada. While it doesn't collect data on dog overdoses, it says, anecdotally, vets are seeing more of them.

Canada’s minister of fisheries says Marineland’s plan to ship 34 marine mammals to aquariums in the U.S. is "solid." Animal advocates, meanwhile, worry the beluga whales and dolphins at the shuttered Niagara Falls, Ont., park may end up being used for breeding and performances if Ottawa approves the park's relocation request.

Federal officials have revealed that the total expenditures incurred during a controversial cull at a B.C. ostrich farm last year amounted to nearly $7 million.

Thousands of southern and central Ontario residents are reporting that they were shaken by an earthquake late Tuesday night, according to Natural Resources Canada.

A long-awaited update to Canada's national building code requires newly built homes to include a type of radon mitigation system. But what about the millions of existing homes that are at risk of having high radon levels? And how do you know if your own house is a danger zone?

Police cold-case units face a new challenge in solving decades-old killings. With the world's largest storehouse of genealogy information, Ancestry.com, now banning law enforcement from using its data without obtaining a court order, it is much harder for police to build family trees based on crime-scene DNA and zone in on suspects via their distant relatives.

Researchers in Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia are launching a project to map more than 10,000 genomes from Black Canadians with Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and an aggressive form of breast cancer. Project leaders hope their findings eventually help target treatment and preventive care and contribute to better health outcomes for racialized patients.

Advocates say car headlights are not only too bright, but also too high up on larger vehicles, sometimes aiming at eye level. They say the lights blind other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has announced its closure of seven of its research operations across Canada, including two in Saskatchewan. The mayor of Indian Head, Sask., says 30 local employees will be laid off.

The cost of importing Chinese cars to Canada is set to drop steeply with a recent cut in tariffs. How will that impact EV sales? Are our EV charging infrastructure and our grid ready for those extra cars? Here's a closer look at the potential impact.

Canada is a party to an agreement to work with U.S. and Finnish counterparts to produce icebreakers for the U.S. Coast Guard. Those ships will give the U.S. greater ability to operate in the Arctic. Will they also be used to threaten Canada's sovereignty in the North?

The Canadian government on Monday granted “conditional approval” to Marineland for the defunct amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont., to ship 30 captive belugas and four dolphins to institutions in the United States.

Radon gas, an invisible health threat that can build up in your home, is putting more Canadians at risk of deadly lung cancer. A national research team is using throwaway toenail clippings to find markers of high radon exposure, in the hope of expanding cancer screenings to save lives.

Through conservation efforts leading to a resurgence of bald eagle numbers across the continent, the iconic raptors can be found practically anywhere in Alberta, from along the Bow River in Calgary to deep in the grasslands.

A new national analysis finds Canada is seeing fewer wildfires overall, but a growing share of damage is being driven by a smaller number of increasingly large, hard-to-control fires.