Environment

Canada's wildlife police hope the kind of bust that halted a recent illegal shipment of polar bear rugs to China will soon be a vanishing breed.

It wasn't much of a bouquet — just a single lonely dandelion. But it had been plucked from the middle of a barren stretch of oilsands coarse tailings.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil has announced more than $6.5 million in funding for ocean research projects. The nine projects are the first to receive funding from the $25 million Research Nova Scotia Trust established in March.

WASHINGTON — A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand's incoming government is hoping to make the nation greener by planting 100 million trees each year, ensuring the electricity grid runs entirely from renewable energy, and spending more money on cycle ways and rai

NEW YORK — Within the next three decades, floods that used to strike the New York City area only once every 500 years could occur every five years, according to a new scientific study released just days before the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sand

VICTORIA — British Columbia has appointed a team of environmental and industry advisers to help the New Democrat government set and meet legislated pollution reduction targets.

OTTAWA — The federal government plans to introduce new regulations next year to try to match decade-old American standards for new diesel-powered generators.

FLINT, Mich. — The City Council in Flint, Michigan, is asking a federal judge for more time to choose a long-term source of drinking water in the wake of the city's lead-tainted water crisis. The request was made in a Sunday court filing. Gov.

New tests have found a wide range of previously undiscovered contaminants in polar bears around Hudson Bay.