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At least six people have been killed in bear attacks in Russia’s vast Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk in a month, prosecutors said Wednesday, as an official in a neighbouring region reported bears had put one town “under siege.”
Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades and was expected to skirt Mexico’s southwestern coast as a major hurricane, while another Pacific system, Odalys, strengthened Wednesday from a tropical storm to a hurricane without threatening land.
This year’s powerful El Nino and the record global heat it’s driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released Wednesday.
The Trump administration’s abrupt cuts to U.S. foreign aid in 2025 eliminated or sharply curtailed programs serving millions of people worldwide, with devastating consequences for many communities. Reductions by other major donor countries deepened the funding crisis.
Fall is upon us and it’s going to be a “comfortable” one in the Greater Toronto Area, according to a climatologist with Environment Canada.
The Maritimes have enjoyed a quiet hurricane season so far.
Several seniors were arrested for trespassing on Parliament Hill today as they called for stronger government action to address climate change.
Parks Canada says guests flocking to the Rocky Mountains for the annual viewing of larch colours may be disappointed this year.
Hurricane Polo grew into a Category 5 storm Tuesday in the eastern Pacific off southwestern Mexico and was forecast to bring heavy rain to southwestern Mexico but remain offshore.
When a mother bear with a cub in tow walked through the automatic doors of the Pharmasave store in Hope, B.C., on Sunday afternoon, staff and customers were shocked.
A fourth whale that was moved out of Marineland in July has died.
There’s still a buzz in the air after a large basking shark was spotted splashing around sailboats and docks near the Bedford Basin Yacht Club on Friday.
Two helicopter pilots were killed when their aircraft crashed Sunday afternoon while conducting water drops on a wildfire at Yosemite National Park, officials say.
The strengthening El Nino weather pattern has tied for the most intense on record on a widely-used metric, a senior scientist told AFP Monday, even as its influence is already being felt from Central America to Indonesia.
The Federal Court has rejected Ottawa’s bid to toss out a case accusing the government of having no intention of meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target.
World and business leaders gathering in New York are grappling with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change and soaring energy prices.
