Environment

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.

Squamish Valley was the place with the most illegal campfires over the B.C. Day weekend. 

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.