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 ...

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 ...

Fort McMurray is under evacuation for the second time in four years. The Albertan town was besieged by a huge wildfire in 2016, but now it faces flooding due to an army of ice (feel free to leave your ...

Rising demand for oil -- and the resulting rise in prices -- means that the United States is increasingly looking to Canada for crude. In Alberta, large deposits of oil sit in the ground in the form ...

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.

A central position of green syndicalism is that the destruction of nature and the destruction of workers’ lives and communities are inextricably linked and proceed together. Both are probability ...

In Alberta, Canada, severe flooding on the Athabasca River has submerged homes and buildings in the city of Fort McMurray, forcing the evacuation of 13,000 people despite the coronavirus lockdown.