Climate & Environment

A new report from a group of more than 30 experts says a population of endangered killer whales off the coast of British Columbia and Washington state is showing “no sign of recovery” and there’s an “urgent need” for robust actions to save them.

The City of Cranbrook says it is appealing a $175,783 fine levied by British Columbia’s workplace safety agency after investigators found multiple violations during an indoor monster truck rally earlier this year.

Syrian firefighters are facing heavy winds, high temperatures and ordnance left behind from the 13-year civil war as they try to extinguish some of country’s worst wildfires in years, a government minister said Monday.

A wildfire is currently burning near the largest city in northern Manitoba, as firefighters continue to deal with a busy fire season in the province.

Indonesia’s rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted Monday, sending a column of volcanic materials as high as 18 kilometres (11 miles) into the sky, depositing ash on villages and leading to flight cancellations.

Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their foundations and killed at least 82 people in central Texas.

Tropical Storm Chantal was downgraded to a depression Sunday but raised concerns of possible flash flooding as it makes its way into central and eastern North Carolina.

An orphaned badger was taken into the care of a B.C. wildlife rehabilitation centre after its mother was hit by a car, prompting a reminder about how vulnerable the endangered species is to “road mortality.”

With two heat waves hitting parts of Ontario and Quebec less than two weeks apart, urban planners and ecologists are stressing the need for Canadian municipalities to transform their heated urban sprawls into “cooler cities.”

Tropical Storm Chantal has formed off the southeast U.S. coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miamia says tropical storm warnings have been issued for portions of the Carolinas. Tropical storm conditions are expected in the affected areas later Saturday.

Canada’s environment ministers have endorsed stronger air quality standards for fine particulate matter, while acknowledging the struggles caused by wildfires that can blanket the country in smoke advisories.

An intense thunderstorm in Alberta has produced more than just the usual bolts from the sky.

At least six people are dead in Texas Hill Country and 20 unaccounted from a girls’ summer camp as authorities continue search and rescue operations after several overnight flash flooding.

The northern Manitoba town of Lynn Lake has issued a mandatory evacuation order as a nearby wildfire threatens to cause an imminent loss of power to the community.

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot.