Environment and Climate Change Canada

Information received in response to the 2017 Inventory Update (chemicals and polymers) To increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on manufactured and/or imported substances in Canada, the Government of Canada is providing a summary of the information received in response to...

In an effort to increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on substances in commerce in Canada, the Government of Canada is publishing a summary of the information received in response to the Notice to provide information for the risk management of 1,4-benzenediamine,...

In an effort to increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on substances in commerce in Canada, the Government of Canada is publishing a summary of the information received in response to the Notice to provide information for the risk management of certain coal tars and their...

Canada has the longest coastline in the world, measuring 243,790 kilometers. Many of our waterways along the coastline have to be dredged regularly to keep shipping channels and harbours open and safe for navigation; and this material is sometimes best disposed of at sea. Schedule 5 of the...

A database of verified tornado occurrences across Canada has been created covering the 30-year period from 1980 to 2009. The data are stored in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, including fields for date, time, location, Fujita Rating (intensity), path information, fatalities, injuries, and damage...

Deltaic Wetlands Biomonitoring Wetland macroinvertebrates, comprising insects, crustaceans, molluscs and worms represent a group of organisms forming a critical food resource for consumer organisms (e.g. fish, birds), that are used widely in environmental monitoring programs to assess both the...

Information received in response to the data gathering initiative on certain substituted diphenylamine substances (2012). To increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on substances in commerce in Canada, the Government of Canada is providing the summary of the information...

Information received in response to the notice with respect to certain aromatic amines and aromatic azo and benzidine-based substances (2011). To increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on substances in commerce in Canada, the Government of Canada is providing the summary of...

Information received in response to the data gathering initiative on certain selenium-containing substances (2013). To increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on substances in commerce in Canada, the Government of Canada is providing the summary of the information received...

Information received in response to the data gathering initiative on certain organic flame retardants (2013) To increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on substances in commerce in Canada, the Government of Canada is providing the summary of the information received in...

Information received in response to the data gathering initiative on certain phthalate substances (2013). To increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on substances in commerce in Canada, the Government of Canada is providing the summary of the information received in response...

Information received in response to the data gathering initiative on certain cobalt-containing substances (2012). To increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on substances in commerce in Canada, the Government of Canada is providing the summary of the information received in...

Information received in response to the data gathering initiative on Methylenediphenyl Diisocyanate and Diamine (MDI/MDA) and phenol, methyl- substances (2012). To increase transparency and to facilitate access to information on substances in commerce in Canada, the Government of Canada is...

Environment and Climate Change Canada added 40 compact stations, 10 ATMOS stations and 3 standard automated MSC Auto8 stations to the existing networks to form a high-resolution monitoring system across southern Ontario known as the Mesonet. These stations provided both high-density spacing and...

Citation information for scientific and technical articles published in 2015 co-authored by Environment Canada researchers. The structure of this publication list utilizes the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Z39.29-2005 (R2010)...

This dataset includes all significant new activity (SNAc) orders and notices published under the authority of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA). The SNAc provisions of CEPA may be applied to a substance or living organism when Environment and Climate Change Canada and Health...

Mesoscale boundaries have an important influence on mesoscale weather. They can trigger, enhance or inhibit convections and severe weather. They are also indicators of shifts in wind speed and direction, temperature and relative humidity, and can affect air quality and heat indices. Around the...

The Pan and Parapan American Games are a regional international summer sporting event, staged every 4 years in the year prior to the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 2015 Games were awarded to Canada on November 6, 2009, by the Pan American Sports Organization. The XVII Pan American...

NAV CANADA (NC) provided Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) with automated minutely weather observations from six select AWOS stations (i.e. airport locations) in southern Ontario as an experimental, proof-of-concept program in support of the 2015 Games. The minutely data were at a...

The high spatial and temporal resolution network was comprised of new automated land- and marine-based weather stations, and additional experimental monitoring platforms. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) designed the Mesonet to monitor weather at the venues, while providing close...