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With out-of-control wildfires scorching much of Canada, representatives from the world’s countries are descending on Vancouver this week for a major conference designed to increase funding for climate action and nature protection.

The federal Environment and Climate Change Minister is firing back at Conservative critics who are calling his diplomatic trip to China a "betrayal."

In March, the province committed to invest $29 million over four years to protect caribou, whose estimated number in the province is around 5,000. Now, Ontario has announced $20 million for a conservation stewardship project.

Analyzing marine sediment levels around Casey station between 1997 and 2015, Australian and Canadian scientists found that levels of multiple contaminants exceeded international quality guidelines.

A natural El Nino, human-caused climate change, a stubborn heat dome over the nation’s midsection and other factors cooked up tropical storm Hilary’s record-breaking slosh into California and Nevada, scientists figure.

Fire chiefs from West Kelowna, Kelowna and Lake Country said homes have been destroyed in their communities, with West Kelowna sustaining the most losses and higher numbers still expected.

“We are still waiting for any kind of climate plan from Pierre Poilievre,” said Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault in an emailed statement to Canada’s National Observer. “While the Conservative party still debates whether climate change is real, the world is on fire,” the statement reads. 

Defence Minister Bill Blair says another company of soldiers is being deployed to Hay River in the Northwest Territories, which has been evacuated for more than a week due to a threatening wildfire nearby.

As Metro Vancouver is being warned about the risk of particulates in the air from wildfire smoke, those battling blazes in the central Okanagan say the smoke is helping their cause.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to deliver a new mission for his cabinet at a three-day retreat in Charlottetown this week, in a bid to restore Canadians' sense of economic security and their confidence in his government.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are traveling to Maui on Monday to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires that ripped through the western part of the Hawaiian island earlier this month, as his administration responds to the devastation whose full scope is still unknown.

Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane was a social worker before entering politics, so when the territory ordered everyone in its capital to leave last week due to encroaching wildfires, she said she checked to make sure homeless people weren't forgotten.

Set to come into effect in the next few years, the program would mean even people living in high-risk areas or who experience storm surges would be able to access affordable insurance through the plan.

Physicians and medical schools around the world are tailoring their approach to public health as climate-related illnesses rise.

Why Canada is opting to hold off and align home appliance energy standards with the U.S.