Climate & Environment

A bear died after becoming trapped inside a car in Colorado Springs, prompting Colorado Parks and Wildlife to issue a warning to drivers to keep their car doors locked, remove all trash and food from vehicles, and keep their windows rolled up.

A single “tiger” mosquito, known to be an “aggressive” daytime biter, has been detected in the Niagara Region.

Canada is on track for its fourth worst wildfire season on record.

When it’s really hot out, getting dressed seems pretty simple: Wear something light, loose and made for summer. But textile researchers say it’s actually a little more complicated than that.

An unstable mountain rock formation looming above the Swiss village of Kandersteg threatens a landslide that could rival the disaster that destroyed nearby Blatten last year, a collapse scientists linked to thawing permafrost and glacier dynamics.

Thousands were without power Monday after Tropical Storm Lala uprooted trees from downtown Honolulu to the Big Island, where intense flash-flooding and strong winds isolated already-remote communities.

Thousands of people remained displaced on the Indonesian island of Flores on Tuesday, three days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 70 people, injured nearly 1,200 others and damaged thousands of homes.

The threat that rising temperatures fuelled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated, according to a U.S. modelling study published Tuesday.

As thousands of British Columbians return to their homes to see what’s left in the wake of aggressive wildfires, misinformation researchers are warning that the crisis is being exploited by bad actors, including profiteers and foreign operatives.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday that oil drilling in northern and northeastern coastal regions could be “a passport to the country’s future” after visiting a Petrobras offshore drilling vessel following a find announced last week near the mouth of the Amazon River.

Emergency management officials in British Columbia say there is no threat of a tsunami after a magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck Monday near Alaska.

A New Brunswick teenager saved a shark washed ashore in Maces Bay.

Thousands of people waited for aid on the Indonesian island of Flores on Monday as the country marked its 81st Independence Day, two days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 68 people, injured more than 200 others and damaged thousands of homes.

One of Belgium’s biggest ever wildfires blazed out of control Monday even as cooler weather and rain eased conditions for firefighters, while in Greece a fire briefly flared up near the main airport on the outskirts of Athens.

An American tourist was killed by a lightning strike on Sicily’s Mount Etna while hiking Europe’s largest volcano following a period of intense activity, Italian firefighters said Monday.