Environment

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Despite recent improvements, the U.S. and Canada have a long way to go toward ridding the Great Lakes of pollution that endangers human health and the environment, an advisory agency said Tuesday.

TORONTO — Leaders from a Northern Ontario First Nation are meeting with federal and Ontario Indigenous ministers in Toronto today to push for a mercury treatment centre.

TORONTO — Ontario's final cap-and-trade auction before entering a joint market with Quebec and California next year is set for today.

TORONTO — Leaders from a Northern Ontario First Nation urged the federal and Ontario governments to commit to building and funding a mercury treatment centre in their community ahead of a meeting with them Wednesday.

OTTAWA — In the last decade, Canadians have legally imported more than 2,600 trophy animals that are on an international list of endangered species.

QUEBEC — Environmental groups are celebrating the Quebec government's announcement of a huge new protected area intended to preserve caribou habitat in the province's north.

BROOKFIELD, N.S. — As it awaits industrial approval from the province to burn tires at its Nova Scotia cement plant, Lafarge Canada says it has spent $830,000 to install emissions monitoring systems.

BELLA BELLA, B.C. — The coast guard says a loaded fuel barge that broke away from its tug off British Columbia's central coast has reached safer waters and is now moored.

LIMA, Peru — From her small home near two golf courses and three slums, Gianina Rojas gazes up at a crumbling adobe pyramid, remnants of the vast Inca empire that flourished more than six centuries ago.

BELLA BELLA, B.C. — A loaded fuel barge that broke away from its tug off British Columbia's central coast was being towed to safety on Monday as the threat of a spill diminished, officials said. The barge, loaded with 3.