Georgetown University is set to divest from companies whose primary business involves the extraction of tar sands, according to a June 7 news release from the university. At the June meeting of the ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Pollution from extraction plants in the oil sands of northern Alberta is spreading farther than previously thought, contaminating lakes up to 90 kilometers (55 ...

Canada’s Mordor, as environmentalists like to call the oil sands, is notorious for how “dirty” oil extraction is there. It’s also notorious for how expensive it is to extract. The dirt argument, which ...

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 ...

Over four months in 2018, a group of scientists took more than a dozen flights over the Athabasca oil sands in Canada, one of the largest deposits of bitumen in the world. The findings, published on ...

"That guy can drive over a three-quarter-ton pickup and not even know he did it," he said. In the mines, the overburden - the trees, soil and glacial till that sits atop the oil sands - is up to about ...