A young plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government says she has suffered the debilitating consequences of Lyme disease because climate change has expanded the habitat of disease-carrying ticks.
Trees are charcoal black on one side and bone white on the other, evidence of the path a wildfire took as it tore into Waterton Lakes National Park in southwestern Alberta nearly two years ago.
Last Friday, in the streets outside the government buildings in Brazil’s capital city, Emilee Gilpin walked with nearly a thousand people in desperate concern over the relentless and unprecedented burning of one of the most important ecosystems in the world.
A wildfire burning in steep and rocky terrain in British Columbia's southern Okanagan is defying containment efforts and has grown to nine square kilometres in size.
In May 2016, a wildfire near Fort McMurray forced more than 80,000 people to flee the northern Alberta city, destroyed 2,400 buildings and burned nearly 6,000 square kilometres of forest.
Evacuees from Pikangikum First Nation will be taken to host cities in two provinces on Sunday, June 2, 2019, while a wildfire continues to grow near the northwestern Ontario community.