drought

The manager of fire operations for British Columbia's wildfire service says rain and cooler temperatures have taken an edge off some of the most aggressive blazes among more than 260 burning across the province.

Peggy Brekveld has owned a dairy farm with her husband in Thunder Bay, Ont., for nearly three decades and says she's never seen a drought this bad.

Earth sizzled in July and became the hottest month in 142 years of recordkeeping, U.S. weather officials announced.

No matter how much Megan Greig waters, her raspberries, peas, carrots, and beans won’t flourish this growing season.

A harvester rumbles through the fields in the early morning light, mowing down rows of corn and chopping up ears, husks and stalks into mulch for feed at a local dairy.

A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say.

Horticulturalists recommend 10 drought-resistant plants for your garden that will be able to survive the hotter summers on the horizon.

A combination of drought, heat and drier fuels is causing larger areas to burn in British Columbia, says an expert.

Help is on the way for Canadian farmers and ranchers severely affected by this year's drought.

Farmers are calling for emergency disaster relief as drought ravages crops and pastures across the Prairie provinces and beyond.

The media giant responsible for sowing doubt about the climate crisis is launching a 24-hour weather news channel.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday asked people and businesses in the nation's most populous state to voluntarily cut how much water they use by 15 per cent as the Western United States weathers a drought that is rapidly emptying reservoirs relied on for agriculture, drinking water and fish habitat.

Wearing soot-smudged, fire-resistant clothing and helmets, several wildland firefighters armed with hoes moved through a stand of ponderosa pines as flames tore through the underbrush.

A study of tree rings dating back to the Roman empire concludes Europe's weather since 2014 has been extraordinary.

When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottle. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040.