Environment News

DENVER (AP) — When Kevin Erickson fires up his 1972 Plymouth Satellite, a faint hum replaces what is normally the sound of pistons pumping, gas coursing through the carburetor and the low thrum of the exhaust.

WASHINGTON (AP) — 3M will phase out the manufacturing of so-called “forever chemicals” and try to get them out of all their products within two years, the chemical and consumer products maker said Tuesday.

OTTAWA — Canada's ban on the manufacture and import for sale of some plastic items, including grocery bags and straws, has taken effect.

VOSS, Norway (AP) — Chunks of ice float in milky blue waters. Clouds drift and hide imposing mountaintops.

MONTREAL (AP) — Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N.

MONTREAL — Canada and nearly 200 other countries around the world now have eight years to set aside almost one-third of their land and marine territories for conservation under a landmark new biodiversity deal reached in Montreal on Monday.

VANCOUVER — Internal RCMP documents show police sawpotential for human-wolf "conflict" after the animals escaped their enclosure at the Greater Vancouver Zoo in August, while the facility announced there was no danger to the public.

Now that the world has come together for a new deal to protect what's left of the planet's biodiversity, observers say Canada's various layers of government will have to do the same.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several of Indiana’s major employers want their local utilities to make it easier for them to buy power generated by wind and solar farms so they can move closer to their renewable energy goals.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.