Founded in 1992 as a response to the toxic Sydney tar ponds, the Atlantic Coastal Action Program has dedicated itself to sustaining and restoring watersheds and building habitat for the wildlife that thrives there. Their work is yielding results.

Researchers, biologists, and Indigenous communities work together to bring eelgrass — with its role in creating healthy shorelines and its capacity for carbon storage — back to Nova Scotia coastlines.

As people gather to mark the anniversary of one of Canada's worst human-made disasters, largely absent will be those who survived its fury.

The U.S. ambassador joined the small Newfoundland community of Appleton on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, as it marked 9/11 with a service honouring those killed and those who opened their homes to thousands of stranded passengers.

Most scientists have wrapped up their work scanning waters off the eastern U.S. coast for endangered North Atlantic right whales, capping off a dismal season that has seen an unprecedented number of deaths and no new calves added to the plummeting population.

Northern cod stocks off Newfoundland suffered a steep decline over the last year, with Fisheries official finding the species has a lower survival rate and will likely continue to decease in the coming year.

Dozens of volunteers — including surfers, police, fisheries officials and passersby — raced to a Nova Scotia beach on New Year's Day to help return a stranded pilot whale back to sea.

Not a single wild Atlantic salmon was found in a New Brunswick river that was once home to a healthy population of the species, alarming conservationists.

More research is needed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to determine if it has become an emerging habitat for endangered North Atlantic right whales, experts said on Friday, July, 7, 2017.

Lorne Grabher is going to court to try to have his last name - Grabher - reinstated on a personalized licence plate, arguing the removal violates his Charter rights.