‘Blue Crush’ surfer killed in shark attack
Tamayo Perry, 49, who also appeared in episodes of "Hawaii Five-O" and "The Bridge," was attacked in the water near Oahu's North Shore of Hawaii.
Tamayo Perry, 49, who also appeared in episodes of "Hawaii Five-O" and "The Bridge," was attacked in the water near Oahu's North Shore of Hawaii.
Spanish police haved called off the search for Jay Slater almost two weeks after he vanished on Tenerife
When a fire chief in rural Nova Scotia came across a post about a fire department in rural Saskatchewan losing everything in a fire, he knew his department had to do something.Matthew Mundle, the fire chief in Shinimicas, N.S., decided the answer was to donate a fire truck.On the Canada Day weekend, the truck made its way toward Archerwill, Sask., a village of roughly 150 people located about 300 kilometres east of Saskatoon.Mundle is familiar with how devastating the loss of fire equipment can
India generates at least 62 million tons of waste annually, according to federal government records, and some of its landfills are literal mountains of garbage, like the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi. And while a 2016 law made it mandatory to segregate waste so that hazardous material doesn't make its way to landfills, the law has been poorly enforced, adding to the risk of waste pickers. It is a potentially toxic miasma fed by the plastics, industrial, medical and other waste generated by millions living in the capital New Delhi and the teeming suburban cities. But a handful of waste pickers ignore both the fumes and suffocating heat to sort through the rubbish, seeking anything they can sell to earn a living. (AP video by Piyush Nagpal)
Beryl is the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph with stronger gusts, according to a 5 p.m. EST update from the National Hurricane Center.
CALGARY — Weeks of water restrictions in Calgary could be eased in a matter of days, the city's mayor and officials say, if the water system holds while crews turn valves back on after they were closed in early June to repair a burst feeder main.
Beryl is one of the earliest hurricanes we've ever seen in the tropical Atlantic Ocean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Beryl is forecast to strengthen into a powerful Category 4 storm as it approaches the southeast Caribbean, which began shutting down Sunday amid urgent pleas from government officials for people to take shelter.
Some of the strongest hurricanes in history grew their ferocious winds in only a couple of hours
Storms in Switzerland and northern Italy caused extensive flooding and landslides, leaving at least four people dead, authorities said Sunday.
A man on Florida’s northeast coast was bitten by a shark this weekend but is now recovering, authorities said Sunday, in the third shark attack in state waters over the past month.
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Details with meteorologist Melinda Singh.
The federal government in Canada has implemented new regulations targeting "greenwashing," requiring companies to substantiate their environmental claims under the amended Competition Act. While environmental groups support the changes, opposition from industry and some provincial leaders persists. The new laws have caused concern in the energy industry and have been criticized for their vague nature. Heather Yourex-West reports.
It's been three years since Lytton, B.C., residents were given just minutes to flee their homes as a wildfire tore through the village, reducing their community to rubble. June 30, 2021, began hot. The village, about 150 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, had seen temperatures of 46.6 C and 47.9 C in the days leading up to it. On June 29, 2021, the temperature peaked at 49.6 C. On that fateful Wednesday, in the late afternoon, a wildfire sparked and quickly spread. Community members saw the fire
Firefighters say they carried out around 80 rescue operations after floods, thunderstorms and landslides hit various regions in northern Italy.
Barbados, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada & Tobago are under a hurricane warning.
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — From Stanhope to parts of P.E.I.'s north shore, salt water has begun to intrude on a few groundwater wells, says a Dalhousie University researcher. Barret Kurylyk and his research team brought the evidence to a natural resources and environmental sustainability committee meeting on June 13 at the George Coles Building in Charlottetown. Due to shoreline erosion, storms, heavy precipitation and climate, the aquifer that separates groundwater from salt water has been vastly
Jacqueline Thomas has a look at some cooler weather Saturday and when things could warm back up.
A shark bit a boater's arm in waters off Florida's Atlantic coast late Friday morning, causing critical injuries and prompting an airlift to a local hospital.
A Gwich'in family in Fort McPherson, N.W.T., has a new heirloom after the son of a former RCMP officer returned a pair of 70-year-old snowshoes.The snowshoes were made by John Tetlichi in the 1950s, and he gifted them to an RCMP officer who had been transferred to work in Aklavik, N.W.T.That officer was Robert Feagan's father, Hugh Feagan. Robert spoke to CBC about the snowshoes, and his father's time in the North."He thought he was being smart," Robert said of his father. "Before he went to a A