Ottawa Green News

More than $200 billion worth of Canadian assets are at risk from global warming, says an international report released Monday. The report, released jointly by a major insurance firm and an environmental group, ranked Canada as 12th in the world...

President Barack Obama, shown planting a tree in April with a student conservation group, has a climate strategy that plans to cut emissions to 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020...A U.S. plan to cut emissions goes much further...

Exhaust from Nova Scotia Power's Tuft's Cove generating plant. A new Harris-Decima poll has found that nearly two-thirds of Canadians agree that climate change is a 'defining' issue that requires strong action. Most Canadians think climate change is the planet's...

Environment Canada is investigating whether toxins from oilsands operations in Alberta are contaminating groundwater and surface water in the Athabasca region, Canwest News Service has learned. The top-ranking department official confirmed in a letter that federal teams had inspected five...

Ashbury College students from the Junior School Environmental Club pose for a photo on the roof of the school's theatre where a green roof will be built. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) On behalf of Ashbury College, Bill Eastwood, a 1956...

While looking at some old copies of Life Magazine in an antique store in the spring of 2008, I came across a very interesting article from August1956 about the fear of global warming. It reviewed many possible causes for the...

Nuclear facilities and power plants are contaminating local Canadian food and water with radioactive waste that increases risks of cancer and birth defects, says a new report to be released on Friday. The report, Tritium on Tap, produced by the...