Climate & Environment

Like humans, wildlife is increasingly vulnerable as climate change fuels longer and more intense heatwaves, disrupting feeding and breeding, and in extreme cases proving fatal.

Authorities in Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali foiled an attempt last week to illegally trade 21 protected green sea turtles, police said on Friday.

A deadly strain of bird flu sweeping through remote islands near Antarctica has devastated the native wildlife population, killing an estimated 13,000 seal pups, as well as penguins and seabirds, researchers say.

Arthur is no longer a tropical system, but its leftover moisture and energy are still fuelling a deadly flood threat across the Gulf Coast and into the South during the weeklong weather event.

Nearly a week after a powerful storm drenched much of southern Manitoba, farmer Curtis McRae is still dealing with extensive flooding on his property.

A 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit near Mont-Joli, Que., in the St. Lawrence River Thursday morning.

The U.S. National Science Foundation on Thursday reversed a decision to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network after vigorous objections from Democratic lawmakers and scientists who rely on it to track everything from ocean circulation to extreme weather.

Despite living and walking the streets of Philadelphia 250 years ago, the research conducted by America’s Founding Fathers continues to play a pivotal role in helping scientists understand how the Earth’s climate is changing.

Tropical Storm Arthur was downgraded to a low pressure area along the upper Texas coast Wednesday night but forecasters expected its remnants to bring life-threatening flooding and days of heavy rains to parts of the southeastern United States, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

A group of climate advocates is suing the federal government, saying recent policy changes have put it off track to meet Canada’s legislated emission reduction targets.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook part of central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island Tuesday, injuring at least eight people, causing scattered damage and rattling residents of a city devastated by a quake and tsunami eight years ago.

Three young women and two environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government seeking to force it to develop an action plan to meet its key climate goals.

Consumers have had to pay more for home, mortgage and car insurance in the past six years, driven in part by increases in extreme weather events, according to a new Statistics Canada analysis.

The Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) has confirmed three additional tornadoes and a downburst occurred in southeastern Saskatchewan during a recent string of violent thunderstorms.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook eastern Japan, including Tokyo, on Tuesday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the meteorological agency said.