Transport Canada

Right whales are detected through visual confirmation from flights and acoustic detection from gliders. However, a policy recommendation document prepared for Minister of Transport Pablo Rodriguez says that Canada will be slashing its flight hours for right whale detection by almost 50 per cent in 2024.

It’s fair to say the shipping sector matters when it comes to putting efforts into reversing the interlinked issues the planet faces today. 

Investigators with an international environmental watchdog have recommended a probe into whether Canada is violating its own laws by not stopping toxic wastewater from being dumped into the ocean along its Pacific coast.

A coalition of conservation groups has called for the use of emergency protections to protect endangered southern resident killer whales from the increased oil tanker traffic due to the expanded Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline.

Canadian airlines say travellers won't see their flight times affected by Monday's total solar eclipse, though passengers should protect their eyes during the astronomical event.

Canada can turn the tide and deliver its long-promised underwater noise strategy with fast and effective regulations that will cut the clamour of human activity polluting oceans and harming marine life everywhere, say conservation groups.

Robot snowplows have run trials in communities across Canada, as well as on federal land, but whether they'll replace emissions-heavy snowplows is uncertain.

Canada has launched a West Coast green shipping corridor from Prince Rupert and Vancouver ports to destinations in Asia and the Middle East, but the partners onboard, funding and the pathway to net zero on the route are murky.

The number of rebates issued for electric vehicles soared in the spring, sparking hope that sales of battery-powered cars and trucks might finally be on track to meet national targets set by Ottawa.

Calls grow for mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise pollution as melting ice opens up shipping routes.

From long hours waiting on hold to sleepless nights on airport floors and desperate scrambles to rebook flights and find missing bags, it was a holiday travel season that no one had on their wish list — but that thousands of people got. 

Ottawa has to stop letting local port authorities do the heavy lifting in preventing cruise ships from dumping billions of litres of corrosive wastewater along the B.C. coast, environmentalists say.

Andrew Arreak says travelling on the ice — the main highway in Canada's Arctic — provides access to the land and food, connects communities and is part of Inuit identity.

Researchers are alarmed fin whales’ threatened status may be downgraded at the same time increased dangers from LNG shipping are on the horizon.

Canada’s new climate plan for the aviation industry sets out a vision that hinges on sustainable aviation fuel and carbon offsets to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.