Environment

WASHINGTON — Global carbon pollution rose this year after three straight years when levels of the heat-trapping gas didn't go up at all, scientists reported Monday.

TABER, Alta. — Alberta wildlife officials are investigating the discovery of close to 100 dead geese apparently dumped on a family's farm.

OTTAWA — Climate change talks in Germany are headed for a collision course on coal this week — and Canada is right in the middle of it.

VICTORIA — The fate of the largest public project in British Columbia's history, the Site C hydroelectric dam, will be the focus of intense scrutiny this week as provincial cabinet ministers travel north for last-minute consultations.

EDMONTON — The Canadian government says it lacked the scientific evidence to determine if oilsands tailings ponds were leaking into waterways and hurting fish.

EDMONTON — Alberta is putting aside $40 million to help workers losing their jobs as the province transitions away from thermal coal mines and coal-fired power plants over the next decade.

LOS ANGELES — A hawk named Riley soars between high-rises in downtown Los Angeles. Smaller birds take notice. And take flight. Riley lands on a branch, surveys the concrete jungle below and swoops down to land on the gloved hand of her owner.

SASKATOON — Newly published research says two of Canada's most commonly used pesticides cause migrating songbirds to lose weight and their sense of direction.

OTTAWA — Just one day after the federal government saved an Arctic climate change research program from the brink of death, another is knocking on the door looking for salvation.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal from Alberta's energy regulator that seeks to overturn a ruling that could allow bankrupt energy companies to walk away from cleaning up abandoned oil wells.