Canada

"The amount of air pollution coming from Canada’s oil sands extraction is between 20 to 64 times higher than industry-reported figures, according to a groundbreaking study. Researchers found that the total amount of air pollution released from the oil sands is equal to all other human-caused air pollution sources in Canada combined."

"It’s a grim — and familiar — start to wildfire season in Western Canada as tinder-dry forests go up in flames."

"The threat from a wildfire near Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, appeared to be easing on Wednesday, a day after it forced thousands of residents to evacuate and stirred memories of a damaging blaze nearly a decade earlier."

"As widespread drought raises expectations for a repeat of last year’s ferocious wildfire season, response teams across Canada are grappling with the rapidly changing face of fire in a warming climate."

"By affirming Indigenous land ownership, British Columbia and the Haida Nation are signaling a new era for Indigenous relations."

"The Biden administration straddled the line on a controversial Canadian oil pipeline in a court filing Wednesday, saying a lower court’s order to drain portions running through tribal land may violate a 1977 treaty but agreeing with a Native American tribe that the operator is trespassing on tribal land."

"From Idaho to Alabama to Maine, adventure outdoors without taking a single car ride or plane trip".

"Canada’s largest oilsands companies are “misleading” the public about their industry’s environmental impact, according to new peer-reviewed research."