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'Wall of smoke': Plaintiff recalls wildfire anxiety in youth-led climate trial

Zoe Grames-Webb has told Canada’s first youth-led climate trial she still remembers the “completely grey wall of smoke” she woke up to in 2017 while staying at a cabin on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast.

King Charles III urges countries to follow Guyana’s lead in protecting forests

King Charles III urged more countries to value nature during a visit to Guyana on Friday, praising its efforts to protect its vast forests while generating millions of dollars from carbon credit sales.

5 takeaways from investigation into how heat storms threaten mothers, babies: Reuters

Over the last six-and-a-half decades, heat waves have morphed from intermittent irritations into globe-spanning events that can last months or even years – what Reuters calls “heat storms.” While these supersized heat waves affect virtually everyone, among the most vulnerable are pregnant women and fetuses.

Children especially vulnerable to climate change, expert witness says

A child psychiatrist and pediatrician has described how children are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change in her testimony at Canada’s first youth-led climate trial.

Toronto has broken an 80-year-old temperature record

Toronto has reached a new daytime high temperature for Oct. 29, breaking a record set 80 years ago.

Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade burgeoning in the country

The villagers who first spotted the five baby orangutans in a casuarina forest in India in early September were puzzled by their reddish hair and unfamiliar faces.

Warm end to October has Ontarians asking one question: What about winter?

As the mild October weather keeps people outdoors, many are already wondering what winter has in store and when Ontarians could see the season’s biggest blasts of snow and cold.

Cyclone batters India’s eastern coast, killing 3 and damaging homes and farmland

A powerful cyclone battered India‘s Andhra Pradesh state on Wednesday, killing at least three people and damaging homes and farmland after authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people, officials said.

‘I got to hand it to Subaru. They made a good car’: Bear locks itself inside vehicle

An Alaskan family says a black bear got trapped in their car early Monday morning, destroying the interior before police rescued it.

Liberals vote to keep B.C. tanker ban in place

The Liberal government voted to keep the B.C. coastal oil tanker ban in place Wednesday, defeating a Conservative bill that would have repealed it.

This Alberta study followed 80 cougars. By the end, almost half were dead.

New research on cougars in the wild in Alberta has suggested that the biggest concern for the species is us.

Whale struck by B.C. Ferries vessel has died, volunteers believe

Whale spotters believe they have identified the humpback struck by a B.C. Ferries vessel in Howe Sound on Oct. 18.

Two whales washed ashore in Newfoundland — so the town banded together to help set them free

Tiny Newfoundland town of Point May spent hours to dig a path for two beached whales.

Will the weakening polar vortex impact Canada’s winter? Here’s what experts say

Whispers of an unusually early polar vortex disruption at the Arctic are keeping local meteorologists curious, but not concerned.

Man found in possession of endangered species on B.C. coast fined $7,500

A man in his 30s has been fined $7,500 for illegally possessing northern abalone, an endangered shellfish species protected under Canada’s Species at Risk Act.