Bloc Calls for Phosphate Ban to Stop Algae Attacking Canadian Waterways
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By ISABELLE RODRIGUE  OTTAWA (CP) - The Bloc Quebecois is calling on the federal government for action to fight algae outbreaks that have closed lakes and rivers across the country.
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By LISA ARROWSMITH  EDMONTON (CP) - A toxic stew of chemicals from birth control pills, shampoo and even compounds used to make foam seating pours out of sewers and pipes across Canada every day, and hundreds of scientists say Ottawa must do more to stop it.
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The government and opposition parties have declared war on trans fats, after the NDP introduced a motion that would make Canada the world&#39;s second country to ban heart-clogging compounds.
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By The Associated Press  HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The Sierra Club asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday to ban industrial and household detergents containing a class of toxic chemical compounds that can cause male fish to develop certain female characteristics.
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The Canadian Medical Association wants the federal government to stop Ontario from imposing a new deal. TORONTO -- The Canadian Medical Association is urging the federal government to stop Ontario from imposing
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A leading environmental group called Friday for protection for the great white shark and humphead wrasse coral fish, whose numbers have plunged because of overfishing and China&#39;s growing appetite for exotic foods.
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CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) - Hearings on whether Prince Edward Island should ban the use of genetically modified organisms in its agriculture industry has international experts on both sides of the debate digging in for a fight.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Federal regulators have proposed banning high risk material from animal feed, pet food and fertilizers, in an effort to prevent mad cow disease.
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By DAVID DISHNEAU  HAGERSTOWN, Md. - An environmental group asked the federal government Tuesday to ban a class of toxic chemical compounds that are found in industrial and household detergents and are believed to cause male fish to develop female characteristics.
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A coalition of environmental and conservation groups calls for a ban on the damaging fishing practice known as bottom-trawling.
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A toxic algae bloom off the coast of Washington state has grown to about 30 miles wide, the largest and most potentially lethal algae yet found by scientists in the region.
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By Heath, David  Seagrasses, an ecologically important group of flowering plants that have adapted to life submerged in seawater, are in dire need of a targeted global conservation effort to protect them and lhc services they provide, according to an international team of scientists.
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Have the news stories that matter most sent to your inbox daily. Canada has closed its ports to vessels from the Faroe Islands and Greenland in response to overfishing of shrimp outside its territorial limit.
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The latest round of tests show that a toxic algae bloom on Geist Reservoir continues with little change in the toxin's levels in the lake, a state health official said.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Although the federal Fisheries Department monitors river conditions year-round, officials could not react fast enough to prevent deaths of spawning salmon in northern B.C. due to Fraser River temperatures, federal Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan suggested Monday.
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By Liu Weifeng  A serious outbreak of algae in Anhui's Chaohu Lake is unlikely mainly due to imminent rains which dilute the concentration of the fast-spreading, foul-smelling plant, a senior environmental official said yesterday.
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Montanans will vote on Nov. 2 whether to remove a ban on cyanide heap-leach gold minding, a process that environments say has sullies the state with water pollution.