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Residents of a second town near the Alberta-Northwest Territories boundary were ordered to evacuate to safety on Sunday, August 13, 2023, evening due to encroaching wildfires, with a new fire meaning the only route out for one of the communities was by air.

As Hawaii residents mourned those killed in ferocious wildfires, officials warned that the full human and environmental toll was not yet known and the recovery only just beginning.

The recommendation was recently floated in a first draft of the province’s Grizzly Bear Stewardship Framework, a report providing policy recommendations for the future of grizzly conservation. It summarizes existing data and highlights the present and future risks to the species’ population.

Home to the longest coastline in the world, Canada is seeing a patchwork of superheating in all three oceans as global sea surface temperatures reached unprecedented heights in July.

A potentially fatal pathogen called Candida auris has adapted to cross the “temperature barrier” into humans, causing cases in the U.S. to jump 1,200 per cent since 2017.

In the wake of a scathing auditor general report, environmental advocates and one opposition party are calling for Ontario's integrity commissioner and the Ontario Provincial Police to investigate the Ford government's Greenbelt plans.

A heat wave that is expected to last most of next week has prompted British Columbia's government to warn people to prepare for sweltering conditions, but a repeat of the deadly 2021 heat dome isn't being forecast.

The BC Prosecution Service says it's dropping 146 cases against old-growth logging protesters after Canada's highest court refused to hear an appeal against the acquittal of a demonstrator who had been cleared of criminal contempt.

Maui residents who made desperate escapes from oncoming flames, some on foot, asked why Hawaii’s famous emergency warning system didn’t alert them as fires raced toward their homes.

Ottawa's clean power plans are sparking a provincial backlash, but Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault says he's not backing down.

Global warming has moved from the North Pole to your backyard — and so did its symbols.

Fishers there are being asked to avoid fishing during the hottest part of the day when water temperatures alone harm fish health. One expert says even without fishing, intense heat might already be pushing the fish out of their habitat.

Algonquin leaders and elders argued against a proposed nuclear waste storage facility in Chalk River, Ont., at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s final licensing hearing before deciding whether to allow its construction.

In our newest podcast, Protecting Haida Gwaii, we take listeners on a journey through the rapid waters of Haida Gwaii's coast to meet its protectors, who are known as Haida guardians.