The tar sands underlie much of Alberta's subarctic boreal forest, an environment of coniferous woodlands, muskeg bogs, lakes, rivers and marshes. Although summer days are long, the growing season is ...

Rapidly-spreading forest fires that caused the frantic evacuation of about 90,000 people from the tar-sands boomtown of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, seemed to be quieting down several days ago.

If it is ever built, the Keystone XL Pipeline will exist for one reason: To move Canadian tar sands oil from remote Alberta to refineries in Texas. For the U.S., controversy over the tar sands is ...

Eriel Deranger of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta, and Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas, speak out on struggles of frontline communities fighting tar sands. An aerial view of the Alberta ...

A popular movement against tar sands oil production and pipeline transport is on the rise and gathering steam in Canada. Its biggest expression so far came on October 22 when 4000- 5000 people rallied ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Host Jenni Doering and Producer Aynsley O’Neill with Kate Beaton. AYNSLEY O’NEILL: The ...

&‘&‘A good neighbor lends you a cup of sugar," read an ad in t he Washington Post last month. "A great neighbor supplies you with 1.4 million barrels of oil a day." Ed Stelmach, the premier of the ...

Discovered: Canadian tar sands impact regional water supplies; therapy doesn't necessarily stop teens from becoming suicidal; first images of the high-energy cosmos; city birds grow up fast. Tar-sand ...

MONTREAL, June 17 (Reuters) - Formula One activist Sebastian Vettel has used his platform to put the spotlight on many issues from LGBTQ rights to climate change but this week the German came to the ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will boost monitoring of pollution from its oil-rich tar sands and hopes this will speed up Washington's approval of a proposed $7 billion pipeline to transport heavy ...

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