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Regulations have lowered mercury emissions globally, but the risks to ocean ecosystems and human health may be getting worse.

As we rolled into November, scientists discovered last month was the warmest October on record globally.

The grey seal population has grown by an average of five percent annually since the turn of the millennium.

The animal die-offs offer the world a stark example of the perils of rising ocean temperatures, which already are upending parts of the Bering Sea ecosystem.

As wholesale prices skyrocket for Pacific flying squid amid a record low catch in Japan, processing companies in the "squid town" of Hakodate, Hokkaido, ar

Flooding, permafrost melt and other climate impacts that threaten the long-term viability of cemeteries

Scientists devised a better way to calculate land elevations and their findings are dire: Far more cities will be inundated by climate change than previously thought.

Conservation groups are calling for the immediate closure of the herring fishery in the Strait of Georgia following the release of new federal government data showing a four-year population biomass decline of almost 60 per cent. “We’ve been systematically overfishing these stocks and the Gulf of Georgia fishery is the last one left,” Pacific Wild...

With an increasing number of fisheries disaster requests coming from across the U.S., members of Congress and the federal government are looking for ways to improve the relief process.

By better aligning the tire season with average snowfall, the city hopes to limit road deterioration.

Similar to what has happened in B.C., tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins have chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California.

The islands were first noticed by a student engineer who had observed the unidentified land masses in satellite images

Around the world, rising temperatures pose a threat to the species.

The convention's final day saw a lot of attention on climate change, as well as shortcomings in public safety, and remarks by both U.S. senators.

Moving Newtok residents to the new village of Mertarvik has been planned for decades. This month, several families moved into new homes.

It was 20 years coming, but it finaly began this weekend: the first residents of Mertarvik moved into their new homes.

For decades, efforts have been underway to tame the effects of erosion on the Magdalen Islands, an archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. But the effects of climate change left these tiny islands vulnerable when it came to facing two powerful and unpredictable storms in less than a year.

Toxic algal blooms which can be fatal to humans, are increasing across the world as temperatures rise, according to the first global survey of dozens of freshwater lakes based on 30 years of NASA data. 

More porcupine sightings have been reported in Yellowknife this year compared to previous years. What should you do if your furry friend meets a porcupine?

So far, about a million acres of trees have died from Alaska to California. An Endangered Species Act listing would have made it difficult to log the tree.