Climate & Environment

Weather advisories have been issued in five provinces and one territory, warning Canadians of a range of conditions from extreme cold and blizzards to heavy wind and rain.

The historic, aging ocean liner that a Florida county plans to turn into the world’s largest artificial reef departed from south Philadelphia’s Delaware River waterfront on Wednesday, marking the opening segment of its final voyage.

Climate advocacy groups are calling on officials to crack down on the fossil fuel industry’s role in K-12 education, suggesting its alleged influence has gone largely unchecked in the absence of robust climate change education.

An advocacy group is calling on Canada’s public pension managers to use their financial heft to more publicly work to reduce climate change as political efforts become less reliable.

A shark attacked and injured a Canadian tourist as she tried to take its picture in the Turks and Caicos Islands earlier this month, according to local authorities.

The snow that fell in Toronto over the past week is more than what the city saw all last winter, says Environment Canada Climatologist David Phillips, however relief is coming in March with “warmer-than-normal” temps expected.

Harsh weather moved west on Monday as a polar vortex was expected to grip the Rockies and the northern Plains after winter storms pummelled the eastern U.S. over the weekend, killing at least 10 people, including nine victims in Kentucky who died during flooding from heavy rains.

A real estate agent in Omaha, Nebraska, recently got an unexpected houseguest – a hungry opossum who ate the entire tuxedo chocolate mousse cake she recently bought from Costco.

At least nine people have died in the most recent round of harsh weather to pummel the U.S., including eight people in Kentucky who died as creeks swelled from heavy rain and water covered roads.

It isn’t too late to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count.

Just days after recording its largest single snowfall since January 2022, Toronto, still digging out from under centimetres of snow, is being hit by another winter storm, prompting the TTC to remove 56 bus stops out of service and several tourist attractions to close on Sunday.

Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death and then uses the spiders’ corpses to spread its spores.

New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on if they are more likely to fight or flee from a predator.

More information has come to light about the deaths of two endangered northern spotted owls released into the wild last year.

Managers of a chemical plant accused of knowingly contaminating the water of hundreds of thousands of people are on trial in Italy, in one of Europe’s biggest environmental disaster lawsuits.