Tag Archives: Environment

ST. JOHN'S - Residents near Newfoundland and Labrador's largest city were ordered to flee a wildfire Tuesday, as thousands of other people across the province faced the prospect of leaving or losing t...

MONTREAL - Montreal's public health department is asking emergency room doctors to report all deaths suspected of being related to the ongoing heat wave. Officials issued a notice on Sunday for the ci...

SMALL POINT-ADAM'S COVE-BLACKHEAD-BROAD COVE - He has no official confirmation, but Luo Xu is certain his family's evacuated home in eastern Newfoundland has been destroyed by wildfire. On Saturday ni...

by Nono Shen When it comes to cinematography, a giant Pacific octopus that borrowed a camera from two divers earns a solid "10 out of 10." Underwater videographer John Roney said he and his longtime d...

TORONTO - Canada's 2025 wildfire season is now the second-worst on record. The latest figures posted by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre suggest the fires have torn through 72,000 square ki...

ST. JOHN'S - As some of eastern Newfoundland's tinder-dry forests continued to burn out of control on Friday, the provincial government exponentially increased its fines for those caught lighting ille...

HALIFAX - The federal Fisheries Department is shedding new light on its relationship with OceanGate, the American company behind the deepsea Titan submersible that imploded south of Newfoundland in 20...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs says it's time for Ottawa to stop studying the idea of a national forest fire co-ordination agency and take action. The organization's president wants ...

MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday ordered a two-week halt to construction at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" as she considers whether it viol...

TORONTO - A study of dozens of Canadian lakes suggests global warming is the major driver of surging algae levels, raising questions about the health of a sizable chunk of Earth's freshwater as temper...