Environment

The migratory birds are likely already on their way out of the province and won't be back until late fall, says a prominent snowy owl expert.

A coal company near Grande Cache has been fined $9,000 by the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) for releasing 1.1 million litres of mine wastewater into the Smoky River.

Good travel habits and selecting conservative terrain will be critical because getting caught in one of these avalanches could be deadly."

Alberta Energy Regulator deems public hearing unnecessary for 68-hectare Coal Valley Mine expansion

As 'zombie deer disease' spreads through Canada, there's still much to learn about CWD and its potential effects on humans.

"We will work with the Aseniwuche Winewak Nation of Canada to keep supporting habitat restoration and encouraging caribou recovery in Alberta."

“They are the 6th and 7th cougars to be lost from our ecosystem since May 2024. I can’t even describe in words just how devastating this is.”

"We have a really busy program here; we are one of the programs that has done the most in the past 10 to 20 years," said Jane Park, fire and vegetation management specialist for Banff National Park.

“She is a huge loss to the ecosystem.”

“We learned a lot from recent fire events that combustible species located adjacent to buildings were a primary source of ignition in a lot of cases.”