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The BC Wildfire Service says a fire burning in British Columbia's southern Interior doubled in size over a 24-hour period to about 2.5 square kilometres.

The Oregon Capitol was at a standstill Wednesday with only four days left in the legislative session, and it remains unclear when — or if— the Senate's 11 Republicans will return to the statehouse and end a walkout over a climate bill.

After two record-setting wildfire seasons, some residents of B.C. and Alberta have decided that the twin threats of flames and smoke are too much to live with.

A "lit"terbug was issued a hefty fine after Victoria's police chief caught him flicking a cigarette butt out his car window.

Alberta's premier says staff in the province's so-called energy "war room" will be able to quickly take on industry foes without government bureaucracy holding them back.

The encroaching danger caused some locals to panic and disburse to different locations like High Prairie, Slave Lake, Sherwood Park and Edmonton. The evacuee registration station was in Calling Lake where most members are staying at the recreation center, elementary school and camping out in tents where they can find space.

As wildfires raged near the central British Columbia community of Lac la Hache, emergency officials struggled to transmit life-saving information to residents.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says forest fires have always been around and carbon taxes won't do anything to change that.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party's action plan on climate change has brought one former British Columbia politician out of retirement and back into the arena.

The U.S. is a hotbed of climate science denial when compared with other countries, with international polling finding a significant number of Americans do not believe human-driven climate change is occurring. Out of 23 countries, only Saudi Arabia and Indonesia had higher proportion of doubters

Permafrost in some areas of the Canadian Arctic is melting so fast that it's gulping up the equipment left there to study it.

Researchers and forest managers are turning to artificial intelligence in the hope it can help them predict the risk of catastrophic wildfires as climate change continues to rewrite the rule book.

Faced with potentially ruinous lawsuits over California's recent wildfires, Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, in a move that could lead to higher bills for customers of the nation's biggest utility and reduce the size of any payouts to fire victims.

Humanity's contribution to climate change made the catastrophic wildfires across the western Canadian province of British Columbia in 2017 far worse, says a new study by Canadian scientists.

A study suggests most Canadian cities have yet to assess the threat posed by climate change despite being the most exposed to any weather disasters it could cause.