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In a deep, dark part of the Gulf of Mexico, the number of marine animals plummeted by about 60 per cent in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, a new study found.
Four soldiers are dead and dozens are injured after a grass fire swiftly overcame a training exercise at the Canadian Forces Base in Wainwright, Alta., on Saturday.
On Jackson Ramsay’s family ranch late in the summer, there were few signs it had just weathered the worst-ever winter snowpack and record-setting heat.
A humpback whale was apparently injured after being struck by a B.C. Ferries vessel in Howe Sound over the weekend.
The world’s top climate scientists will reconvene at the earliest opportunity, the panel’s chair said on Monday, after member states failed to agree when to release its crucial new findings on global heating.
Typhoon Champi has moved from the western Pacific into the Philippine Sea and has become a Category 5 super typhoon, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.
A California aquarium says a beluga rescued from Marineland in Ontario has died, adding to the number of deaths of animals relocated over the summer from the now-closed Canadian facility.
Dozens of critically endangered orangutans have been rescued in recent weeks from rampant wildfires burning across Indonesia that have cloaked the region in toxic haze, conservation groups said.
Trudy strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane as it moved toward Mexico’s southwestern and west-central Pacific coast on Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Fire crews in Southern California worked Saturday to contain a wind-driven blaze that charred hills and burned at least six large coastal homes, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people.
A 71-year-old man fishing on the shore of a Florida lake was killed Friday by a nearly 12-foot alligator, the second fatal attack reported this year.
Nepal’s devastating floods should be a turning point for global climate action, with the international community helping the Himalayan nation recover, a top UN official told AFP on Saturday.
A sea lion that spent about a year with fishing gear embedded in its neck has finally been freed, following a challenging rescue at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve off southern Vancouver Island.
Brazil’s government announced Friday that annual deforestation in the Amazon fell to its lowest level since records began in 1988. Official satellite data showed the rainforest lost 3,335 square kilometres (1,300 square miles) from Aug. 2025 through July 2026, the period used to calculate the annual rate.
Rivers swollen by heavy rains linked to El Niño continued flooding swaths of Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay on Friday, forcing thousands of people from their homes and sending ranchers scrambling to move cattle to higher ground.
Mexico’s president said on Thursday a drastic reduction in the protected area for the near-extinct vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise, will help fishing communities.
