Climate & Environment

Student crews are combing P.E.I.’s coastlines this summer, hauling away whatever items storms, tides and people have left behind.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders slashing two national monuments in Utah to roughly a tenth of their current size.

Saskatchewan may be experiencing a record year for funnel clouds, if the current pace of storms continues, according to experts.

Heat warnings were in place Monday across four provinces as Environment Canada said some areas could see temperatures that “shatter” historical records.

The air quality in Toronto is currently ranked among the worst in the world, on top of a multi-day heatwave that’s gripping the city Monday.

A fire raging in the historic and much-visited Fontainebleau forest south of Paris on Monday prompted evacuations of some residential neighborhoods and disrupted train and highway traffic.

The Assiniboine River flowing through Brandon, Man., has peaked and stabilized, according to the city’s mayor.

French firefighters are battling a huge blaze in a forest just south of Paris as a devastating heatwave extends its deadly sweep across Europe.

All of Ontario appears to be in for another heat wave this week as Environment Canada meteorologists forecast feels-like temperatures of up to 45 C.

Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation criss-crossed by rivers, is highly vulnerable to floods and landslides during the monsoon season, but scientists say climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.

Burned-out vehicles still line some roads where people were trapped as the fast-moving fire swept through the area at speeds of up to 100 metres (330 feet) per minute.

Its intensity continued to weaken as it moved northwestward across eastern China into the province of Anhui as of Sunday afternoon, according to China’s national weather center.

The Canada Day storm that flooded hundreds of basements and streets in Ottawa’s west end was a one in 200-year rainfall event, with some areas receiving more than 140 millimetres of rain, according to the City of Ottawa.

Amid record-breaking rainfall, experts explain what meteorological factors are fuelling major storms in Manitoba.

B.C. wildfire officials don’t yet know the extent of damage the fires burning near Boston Bar this week have caused to structures in the area, but the Blue Lake Resort community knows enough to know it will never be the same.