Two British Columbia First Nations are taking a wait-and-see approach as West Coast salmon are tested to determine if they have been contaminated with radiation resulting from Japa...

The federal government has come up with a plan to save Alberta’s caribou to comply with a court order, but rather than guard the animals' habitat, it protects oil sands development...

Hurricane Irene may have shut down New York City and caused rivers throughout the northeastern United States to overrun their banks, but the storm did not daunt one determined shor...

When polar scientist Henry Huntington was studying a drop in the beluga whale population in Alaska some years ago, he and his colleagues were stumped by conversations they had with...

The American Bald Eagle has many ceremonial uses in the Native population. Sadly, on Sunday May 1 this mother of three eaglets received a ceremony of her own ...

Bernard Maktar of Pond Inlet won Nunavut Tunngavik's 2010 Photo of the Year Contest for this photograph of snow geese...

This winsome second-place winner in the annual photo contest held by the Inuit land-claims organization Nunavut Tunngavik Inc...

In Colorado, elk are gobbling up young willows as if they were candy. Over in North Dakota, the elk are feeding needy humans...

Tribes and environmentalists are still awaiting a court decision on whether gray wolves will be removed from the endangered species list in the northern Rocky Mountains...

Spring has sprung, and so has the bear...