extreme weather

Heavy rains descending on already waterlogged areas of Canada has residents and emergency officials across the country bracing for flood conditions through Friday and the weekend.

The dam hasn’t seen this much action since 1993, the last time Lake Ontario was this high. But the system can only handle so much.

The damaging flooding is coming on the heels of “extreme” weather that led to one of the wettest months in over a century, says the International Lake Ontario—St. Lawrence River Board.

Experts say the real cost of raising, shielding or evacuating vulnerable spots, which include mass−transit systems, power plants and sewage plants, could be very high.

It will be a cold and potentially stormy winter for much of the country

Dozens of major oil companies, including some industry leaders in Canada, are being summoned in an international investigation for allegedly causing human rights impacts linked to climate change.

The smouldering city is not out of the woods just yet, but the prime minister has declined offers for assistance from Russia, Mexico, Australia, and more.

Alberta hopes to airlift 8,000 evacuees to safety in the south this afternoon, and open up the roads for the remaining 17,000 stranded in the north.

The melt came two to three weeks earlier this season. What does that mean for flooding, fire, and other extreme weather events linked to climate change?

An increase in the number of extreme storms is costing the federal disaster relief program millions of dollars

Hurricane Patricia makes landfall over Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday evening with sustained wind gusts of 165 mph.

State Water Resources Control Board on Thursday will release statewide conservation figures for August - but Californians shouldn't hold their breaths that El Nino current will guarantee rainfall.

"Widespread" and "unprecedented" changes are already upon us. Failure to act will bring an ever-growing host of miseries.

A new study finds that slow-moving, low-pressure storms could become 14 times more frequent in Europe over the next century.