Tag Archives: Environment

VANCOUVER - The estimated $78 million in insured property damage from the wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C., in June is a fraction of the rising costs of disasters fuelled by clim...

MADRID (AP) - Spain set a new provisional heat record of 47.2 degrees Celsius (116.96 Fahrenheit) on Saturday as Southern Europe sweltered under a relentless summer sun. Italy put 16 cities on red ale...

Robert Hugh of Monte Lake, B.C., so prized his Wayne Gretzky rookie card that he bought a fireproof safe to store it in. So earlier this month, when the White Rock Lake wildfire prompted an evacuation...

HAVANA (AP) - Tropical Storm Grace formed Saturday morning in the Atlantic Ocean, while Fred remained a tropical depression headed into the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Grace was centered 420 miles (675 ki...

VANCOUVER - Pacific salmon can no longer access hundreds of kilometres of spawning streams or floodplain habitat after decades of urban, agricultural and resource development around British Columbia's...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - People in Newfoundland and Labrador's capital are tossing their plastic buckets in exasperation after a request from Parks Canada to stop picking blueberries on Signal Hill. "It's r...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - The death toll from the severe floods and mudslides in northern Turkey rose to 27 Friday after search and rescue crews recovered 10 more bodies overnight, officials said. An oppo...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scientists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture say they've found the first so-called live murder hornet for the year. In a news release Thursday, entomologists say the...

VANCOUVER - High temperatures, low humidity and an increase in winds are making wildfire conditions challenging in southern British Columbia, says the provincial deputy forests minister. Rick Manwarin...

HAVANA (AP) - Tropical Depression Fred headed for a drenching of Cuba and the Bahamas on Thursday on a forecast track that would carry it toward South Florida as a tropical storm by Saturday. The main...