Climate & Environment

Record floodwaters on Australia’s east coast left three people dead and one missing, officials said Thursday, as more heavy rain was forecast in the area.

To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size.

Colder weather, clouds and rain will continue to persist across Eastern Canada this week with frost advisories in place for Atlantic Canada and northern Ontario.

The world’s sources of critical minerals are increasingly concentrated in just a few countries, most notably China, leaving the global economy vulnerable to supply cutoffs that could disrupt industry and hit consumers with higher prices, a report said Wednesday.

Not to tick you off, but the height of tick season is nearly here, and Ontario could see more of the pesky critters this year.

The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the miraculous and keeps global warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to new research.

Colombia lost nearly 88,900 hectares (340 square miles) of forest — an area larger than New York City — in just six months, driven by the rapid spread of illegal roads, coca cultivation, and unregulated mining, according to a report by Colombia’s procurator’s office.

On the eighth annual 'World Bee Day,' the bees did not seem bothered. They should be.

At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin monkey in her camera trap footage was just a baby capuchin. But something, she said, seemed off. A closer look revealed the figure’s unexpected coloration. She quickly sent a screenshot to her research collaborators. They were perplexed.

A vanishing species of whale gave birth to few babies this birthing season, raising alarms among scientists and conservationists who fear the animal could go extinct.

Officials in Kansas and Texas were evaluating damage on Monday after tornadoes touched down overnight, just days after more than two dozen people were killed in storms that swept through parts of the Midwest and South.

Looking out over a budding meadow with blackened tree stumps on the edge of Banff National Park, Cliff White points to a dark thicket of trees where the empty plot ends.

An international team of scientists has announced a newly found species of poison dart frog deep in the Amazon, set apart by its coppery limbs and blue stripes that its discoverers describe as both enchanting and otherworldly.

Storm systems sweeping across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South At least 27 people have been killed by storms systems that swept across part of the U.S. Midwest and South, with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announcing Saturday that 18 of the deaths came in his state and 10 others were hospitalized in critical condition.

A Bryde’s whale has washed up on the shores of northern Vancouver Island, in what researchers say is the first known sighting of the species in B.C. waters.