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Tropical Storm Bertha churned toward a second landfall in Texas on Thursday after grazing southern Louisiana in a slow crawl that triggered heavy surf and some flooding along the Gulf Coast but kept the heaviest rains offshore.
Teams searching the rubble of last week’s landslide in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing found three additional bodies in recent days, bringing the death toll to 11 with 50 people still missing, Chinese authorities said Thursday.
The heat wave that has scorched southern British Columbia this week has seen temperatures pass 40 degrees for a second consecutive day in the Fraser Canyon, marking the two hottest temperatures recorded in Canada this year.
In addition, more than 1,000 residents living in residential areas along the forest edge have also been evacuated.
The disaster, the country’s deadliest earthquake since 1812, came at a time when socioeconomic conditions were already precarious, with a poverty rate of over 76 per cent, the World Bank said. Some 7.9 million people have fled the country since 2015.
How hard do you have to ram a fish to make it explode? Ask an orca.
The combined water level in two of the United States’ biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, has fallen to a historic low, in what experts are calling a significant moment in the Colorado River crisis — threatening a water system that supplies tens of millions.
Heat returns to Toronto after a brush with below-seasonable weather on Wednesday.
Climate change is exacerbating drought this year in Europe as extreme heat evaporates water supplies, scientists said in an analysis published on Thursday.
Tropical Storm Bertha crawled onto the southern tip of Louisiana on Wednesday, making landfall and packing strong winds far from its centre after closing beaches from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi.
Aerial photographs taken above Namaygoosisagagun First Nation show the devastation wrought by a fast-moving wildfire that forced residents to flee last week as flames closed in on their northern Ontario community.
Mysterious black skin lesions found on catfish in parts of Canada and the U.S. are a transmissible type of skin cancer, according to a new study.
A possible tornado reportedly caused “severe damage” Tuesday afternoon near Harrington, in the Laurentians.
Monique Barbut announced her departure on Wednesday morning, outraged at the lack of debate before parliament the previous day approved reintroducing two banned insecticides to help struggling farmers.
France recorded at least 5,700 more deaths than usual during a historic heatwave last month, the public health agency said Wednesday, sharply increasing its estimates of the feared toll from record-shattering temperatures.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey sent 100 National Guard members to the hardest-hit areas in the northern part of the state, and declared a state of emergency for all 55 counties Tuesday night. An additional 200 National Guard members were expected to arrive by late Wednesday morning.
