Rising temperatures and shrinking snow and ice cover in the Arctic are endangering habitats, fisheries and local cultures, according to a report issued Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). “A lot of people think of the Arctic as being a faraway place, but the loss of ice is affecting people now —…

It was a short but historic moment on the Fraser River on Tuesday morning as Vancouver-based Harbour Air completed the debut test flight of the world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft. Harbour Air founder and CEO Greg McDougall took off solo in the bright yellow retrofitted DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver float plane, spent three minutes in the air over Richmond, B.C., before circling…

American billionaire and Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg says that the next U.S. president should halt fossil fuel subsidies altogether. Bloomberg, who launched his campaign less than three weeks ago, is attending a United Nations global climate conference in Madrid that is kicking into high gear. Ministers from nearly 200 countries are arriving on Tuesday…

A growing number of Nova Scotians are considering an off-grid home, driven by factors like electricity outages and storms, as well as a desire to be environmentally friendly.  But in many cases finding the money to buy or build can be tricky, as most lenders still consider off-grid homes to be too risky to finance. …

What started out as a high school computer science project has grown into the only active Wikipedia in Canada operating in an Indigenous language. Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin includes over 1,000 articles, sound clips and photos representing life, history and culture of the three Atikamekw communities in Quebec.  “They cover common words, the cities of Quebec, and we also started…

Canada’s telecom regulator moved Monday to adopt a new weapon in the fight against phone scammers, calling on Canadian telecom companies to adopt a new technology that would make it easier to verify the origins of a call. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is giving companies until Sept 30, 2020, to adopt STIR/SHAKEN (Secure Telephone…