A British Columbia Supreme Court decision undermines government claims that B.C.'s forestry laws are among the strongest in the world, environment groups said Friday, after losing a court battle to ...

Forests may reduce not only small floods but also the probability of major ones, according to a new study challenging ...

STORY: Over the past 48 hours, the area has received rain, but it's not enough to squelch more than 30 fires which have burnt over 35,000 hectares (86,487 acres), according to the British Columbia ...

A total of seven western states and four Canadian provinces have joined forces in a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions. An entire new source of long-term revenue is available to British Columbia’s ...

In the public imagination, British Columbia is swathed in green and famous for its towering old growth forests. But while the provincial government says 23% of BC’s forests are old growth, a new study ...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia argue that a widely used method to understand and predict flood risk has led scientists to miscalculate how forests can prevent major flooding. The ...

The image on the photographer’s camera could be a scene from a dystopian film. In the muted light of dawn, an environmental activist sits chained to a tractor with a bicycle lock around his neck. A ...

Canada is a big country with big landscapes, and nowhere more so than in British Columbia. Here, at the most westerly point of the country, where the ocean stretches ever-onwards to Asia, a hike is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. British Columbia’s ruling New Democratic Party last autumn pledged to conserve 353,000 hectares (1,363 square miles) of old-growth forest. But so ...