BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Canada has threatened to scrap a trade deal with the European Union if the EU persists with plans that would block imports of Canada's highly polluting tar sands, according to EU ...

The Canadian tar sands, or oil sands, are much more carbon-laden than most other fossil fuels produced in North America, and their possible outsized impact on the climate is one of the primary reasons ...

As one Canadian newspaper put it. Ducks in Alberta died a crude death. One of the species of ducks that died on a pond filled with crude oil polluted water: Bufflehead. Here's a picture of a gorgeous ...

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 ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, August 9, 2013 (ENS) – To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from oil production in the Alberta tar sands, the government of Canada is investing in a demonstration-scale algal ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta -- Along the Athabasca River of remote northern Alberta is an engineer's dream -- miles of gigantic projects turning once unrecoverable oil from Alberta's tar sands into black ...

A woman sleeps with a bottle of sherry in a shopping cart at a McDonald's parking lot in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, in June 2007. Alberta’s tar sands industry is often described as an ...

The future of Canada’s tar sands industry has direct implications for the United States, reports Tom Kenworthy. In this 2005 file photo, mining trucks carry loads of tar sands after being loaded by ...

If it is ever built, the Keystone XL Pipeline will exist for one reason: To move Canadian tar sands oil from remote Alberta to refineries in Texas. For the U.S., controversy over the tar sands is ...