Bob Weber

Reporter with The Canadian Press

297 Articles

A sign opposing coal development in the eastern slopes of the Livingston range southwest of Longview, Alta., on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh

Report on Albertans' views of coal development in the Rockies delayed one month

"It was because of the overwhelming response and the need to accommodate that response with extra time that we had to approach the minister with the request for an extension," committee head Ron Wallace said in an interview Tuesday.

Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson makes an announcement in Calgary, Alta., on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh

First Nations say federal review of Alberta coal mine review is not needed

Two Alberta First Nations say a federal review of a thermal coal mine expansion proposal in the province would fail to account for economic benefits

A women paddle boards along Lake Ontario in the extreme heat in Toronto on Friday, July 19, 2019. File photo by The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

Poll suggests most Canadians feel humanity can't fight climate change

Most Canadians aren't optimistic about humanity's chances of fighting climate change, a new survey suggests.

Race Against Climate Change

Golly, a Harris Hawk, looks over the airfield at Vancouver International Airport as part of a program that uses predatory birds to scare off other birds from nesting and flying around the airport in Richmond, BC, on Jan.21,2015.Photo by The Canadian Press

Roads quieted by pandemic fill with sound of birds singing

New research shows that roads and runways quieted by COVID-19 are filling with birdsong instead.

Coronavirus in Canada

A radio transmitter is inserted into a little brown bat in an abandoned mine in Rosendale, N.Y., on Jan. 27, 2009. File photo by The Associated Press/Mike Groll

Bat-killing fungus found for the first time in Saskatchewan

A fungus that is destroying bat populations in eastern North America has made its first appearance on the Canadian Prairies.

State Of The Animal

A Royal Ontario Museum fieldwork crew are seen extracting a shale slab containing a fossil of Titanokorys gainesi in the mountains of Kootenay National Park, B.C., in an undated handout photo. Handout-ROM, Jean-Bernard Caron

Paleontologists discover large, intact fossilized "beastie" in B.C.'s Burgess Shale

What that 2018 dig revealed was something that stood out even in the bizarre world of the Burgess Shale, an outcrop of 500-million-year-old rocks in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia that is chock-a-block with fossils from the earliest days of complex life on Earth.

Bob Weber

Report on Albertans' views of coal development in the Rockies delayed one month

First Nations say federal review of Alberta coal mine review is not needed

Poll suggests most Canadians feel humanity can't fight climate change

Roads quieted by pandemic fill with sound of birds singing

Bat-killing fungus found for the first time in Saskatchewan

Paleontologists discover large, intact fossilized "beastie" in B.C.'s Burgess Shale

Albertans call for broad policy on Rocky Mountain coal development

Alberta to allow more logging in remnants of old-growth caribou habitat, groups say

'Social movement': Alberta's energy 'war room' plans broad new ad campaign

Two Alberta First Nations want to go to court to push for Benga coal mine