Environment

Testing of potentially contaminated sites was delayed by over six weeks, raising questions about B.C.'s ability to handle a major oil spill. 

The emerging threat is now a persistent and widespread issue in Pacific Canada, and could damage the region's marine life and fisheries, a new study says.

B.C. has revised forest carbon policy in response to a critical audit, but one expert says the province's efforts to kickstart investment in forest carbon offsets still falls short.

The Engineers and Geoscientists B.C. (EGBC) has issued a three-month suspension and financial penalties against an engineer who failed to meet professional standards on a Sea to Sky project.

The B.C. government penalized Conuma Resources Limited $13,000 after it breached air quality limits 32 times over 18 months.

A new study warns of catastrophic caribou decline by 2100, with warming temperatures and human activity driving the highest losses in North America.

Amid debate over protecting chinook salmon for southern resident killer whales, a study found anglers and conservationists share key values, which could resolve the conflict.

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