The tar sands underlie much of Alberta's subarctic boreal forest, an environment of coniferous woodlands, muskeg bogs, lakes, rivers and marshes. Although summer days are long, the growing season is ...

Alberta's sprawling tar sands region holds the second largest oil reserve in the world after Saudi Arabia, but investors lured by the promise of black gold should think twice about the environmental ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will boost monitoring of pollution from its oil-rich tar sands and hopes this will speed up Washington's approval of a proposed $7 billion pipeline to transport heavy ...

On today’s show we’ll speak with Kanahus Manuel, founder of the Tiny House Warrior Movement, speaking about the Alberta Tar Sands and the recent Justin Trudeau resignation. Learn more about the Tiny ...

Rapidly-spreading forest fires that caused the frantic evacuation of about 90,000 people from the tar-sands boomtown of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, seemed to be quieting down several days ago.

U.S. environmental groups are highlighting their objections to importing Canadian tar sands-based oil as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) meets Wednesday evening with Canadian officials on the ...

Discovered: Canadian tar sands impact regional water supplies; therapy doesn't necessarily stop teens from becoming suicidal; first images of the high-energy cosmos; city birds grow up fast. Tar-sand ...

Phillips 66 is Closing its LA Refinery this Month. Neighbors Still Don’t Know if the Company Will Pay for the Cleanup. Arizona Launches Investigation into Proposed Critical Mineral Mine’s Contaminated ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. The second-largest tar sands oil spill in the country — which left a black ...