Environment

Confirming the megathrust fault line off Haida Gwaii offers a path to improve tsunami modelling in a zone that has produced Canada's two largest recorded earthquakes.

There was a 14-fold increase in the total number of ships employing scrubber technology in coastal waters between 2018 and 2022, according to Canadian government data.

Researchers at a University of British Columbia lab have discovered a virus 'strongly associated' with mass die-offs of farmed Pacific oysters and, in a separate study, the bacteria that wiped out billions of sea stars across the West Coast

The resort north of Revelstoke, B.C., was penalized for sewage failures that risked drinking water and saved the facility tens of thousands of dollars, according to a recent decision.

Numbered company 1141536 B.C. Ltd. was penalized for failing to address the long-term effects of a toxic spill connected to major fire that destroyed much of the New Westminster pier in 2020.

The latest set of penalties to Domtar's Skookumchuck, B.C., mill total more than $56,000 and come as the company's ownership is scrutinized in a legal review by the Forest Stewardship Council.

Not-for-profit organization reports 83.3% recovery rate in 2024, up from 79.6% a year prior.

Regional district 'confident' test results are not attributable to the incinerator itself, while calls grow to shut it down

Satellite monitoring identified 5,713 hectares of forest proposed and approved for logging across the ranges of three of B.C.'s most at-risk caribou herds

"We’re not just cleaning up dumps," said Calvin Jameson, who helped transform his community's approach to garbage.