Climate & Environment

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, uplifting music and a parade that honoured the dead, the displaced and the determined survivors who endured and rebuilt.

A severe storm cluster that swept through central Saskatchewan on Aug. 20 has left a trail of damage. 

Canada Post has unveiled its new stamp collection Wednesday featuring fungi and lichens found in the country.

Researchers are urging Canada, United States and Mexico to take immediate action to save the monarch butterfly as the migratory insect faces a growing risk of extinction amid habitat loss.

As climate change becomes more evident in Canadians’ daily lives, teachers across the country say the education system must better equip younger generations to deal with its fallout.

There are few symbols of the American West more iconic than the bison -- shaggy giants that once roamed in the tens of millions before being nearly annihilated by European settlers.

A small group of about 10 writers, researchers and web development ninjas are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including a landmark, congressionally mandated report and the contents of the climate.gov website.

Rescuers in boats raced to reach stranded families in Pakistan’s populous eastern Punjab province Thursday, after three major rivers burst their banks because of heavy rain and the release of water from overflowing dams in neighbouring India.

Parts of Newfoundland and Labrador have suffered from drought conditions for weeks.

Those living near a B.C. ostrich farm that’s attracted international attention say they’re frustrated and feel ignored, as the farm’s owners continue to fight an avian flu cull.

The Long Lake wildfire, near West Dalhousie, N.S., has been burning for two weeks. Approximately 500 homes have been evacuated, forcing around 1,200 people to seek shelter elsewhere.

A missing 12-year-old boy with autism, whose body was discovered in a New Orleans canal following a nearly two-week-long search, died from “blunt force due to an alligator” and drowning, police said Wednesday.

With the planet getting warmer and more people viewing global warming as a serious threat, there is no better time to act than now.

New Brunswick is reporting there are now 10 active fires, five are being patrolled, three are contained and two are out of control, in the province.

How will the climate crisis affect one of the ocean’s fiercest predators? New research published Wednesday has examined what might happen to sharks’ highly specialized, flesh-cutting teeth.