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• Emergency alert system in B.C. to be in place for extreme heat in June: minister

  British Columbia's public safety minister says an automated alert system will be in place in June to notify residents of dangerously high temperatures like last year's fatal heat dome.

  

• Drug-resistant sea lice an increasing problem for B.C. fish farms, new study finds

  Every spring, endangered juvenile wild salmon migrate from B.C.'s rivers to the Pacific Ocean, but their numbers are dwindling and some fear sea lice parasites are increasingly to blame.

  

• Climate change reveals dark secrets as human remains found in receding Lake Mead

  In the American West, the second-largest man-made reservoir has dropped to historic lows due to drought. Water flowing down the Colorado River fills Lake Mead, which is now drying up.

  

• Hundreds ordered to leave homes in Kenora, Ont., as floodwaters continue to rise

  A city in northwestern Ontario has issued an evacuation order in response to a flood risk that's expected to grow in the coming days.

  

• Canada faces floods, record-breaking heat, snow and wildfires on Friday the 13th

  Friday the 13th was a weird weather day for Canada, with provinces experiencing everything from a record-breaking heatwave to spring snow, flooding and wildfires.

• Motor racing-Vettel says climate change makes him question his F1 job

  Four times Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel said on Thursday that climate change had made him question his job as a driver travelling the world to race cars.

• NASA shares satellite image of Manitoba flood

  Severe flooding that has displaced thousands of people in southern Manitoba has reached out of this world levels.

• 'Like an inferno': Western U.S. wildfires burning at furious pace

  Wildfires are on a furious pace early this year — from a California hilltop where mansions with multimillion-dollar Pacific Ocean views were torched to remote New Mexico mountains charred by a month-old monster blaze.

• Five things to know about the Montreal minke whale and why saving it isn't easy

  There appears to be little that humans can do to help the minke whale that has been spotted in the St. Lawrence River near Montreal find its way back home.

• Birds fall from the sky as heat wave scorches India

  Rescuers in India's western Gujarat state are picking up dozens of exhausted and dehydrated birds dropping everyday as a scorching heat wave dries out water sources in the state's biggest city, veterinary doctors and animal rescuers say.

• UN humanitarian official urges attention to drought in Kenya

  A top United Nations humanitarian official has raised concern about people going hungry in a remote part of northern Kenya, joining calls for the international community to commit more resources to address the wider region's drought crisis.

• Fisheries minister pledges to study impact of seals on Atlantic Canada's fisheries

  More research is needed on the impact of seals on dwindling East Coast fish stocks, federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray said Thursday, in response to a report by the region's fisheries industry.