Smoke from wildfires raging in eastern Canada filled lungs and turned skies orange across the northeastern United States, most dramatically in New York City and the surrounding area, for days earlier this month. Although people in western North America have become used to such conditions in the ...
Right now, about 11 million acres are on fire. That's bigger than Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey combined. BC Wildfire Service Two anomalies were at play simultaneously: First, Canadian wildfires that have burned 15 times more area than average; and winds that blew the ...
Power called on the federal government to support the National Flood Insurance Program, prioritize assistance to affected communities, and stop allowing construction and rebuilding in flood plains or areas prone to wildfires. ($1 USD = 1.3506 Canadian dollars) Top photo:Destruction from Jasper, Albert...
It has been a jittery few months for investors as an ill wind not Canadian wildfire smoke, US heatwaves, or flash floods swept through financial market here, there and everywhere. The failure of a “too-big-to-fail” global bank and a few US institutions was one of the causes of the ...
Here are some major points of the climate report:Extreme weather events are growing more extreme "Both the frequency and intensity of many climate extremes increase as the planet warms," Greg Flato, a senior research scientist for the Canadian government who helped organize the IPCC report, told...