Severe storm threat looms over Ontario and Quebec Wednesday
The Weather Network's meteorologist Nicole Karkic has the details on the severe weather risk in Ontario and Quebec on Wednesday.
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The Weather NetworkSevere storms strike across Ontario and Quebec with hail, downed trees
Severe thunderstorms prompted tornado warnings across parts of Ontario and Quebec on Thursday.
- The Canadian Press
Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs
RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, pausing to shed their skin and emerge as adults. And then the fun began.
- The Weather Network
Southern Prairies on alert for strong squall line risk Saturday evening
Stay alert for watches and warnings on the southern Prairies as the potential grows for a strong squall line on Saturday evening
- USA TODAY
Watch rare birth of twin elephant calves in Thailand as baby girl surprises everyone
Caretakers at the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Kraal only planned on Chamchuri giving birth to one calf one June 7. Then another calf emerged.
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A massive solar storm hits Mars, revealing a risk for future astronauts on the red planet
A solar storm hit Mars after the sun unleashed a massive flare in May. Orbiters and the Curiosity rover witnessed the storm’s impact firsthand, including auroras.
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Calgary pipe repair could take three to five more weeks as 'significant' damage found
CALGARY — Resumption of normal water service in Calgary could be delayed by an extra three to five weeks.
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B.C. coal mining company fined for more than 400 violations
A B.C. coal mining company in northeastern B.C. has been fined more than $45,000 for repeated violations of the province's environmental protection rules, including the failure to monitor mine waste into fish-bearing water and failure to limit particulate being put into the air.Conuma Resources Limited is a metallurgical coal mining company operating in the Tumbler Ridge area in northeastern B.C., roughly 660 kilometres directly northeast of Vancouver.It mines coal from to produce carbon used in
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Dairy farms reduce climate impact with methane digesters, but communities worry about expansion
A growing number of California dairy farms are reducing their climate impact with methane digesters that capture the heat-trapping gas so it can be used as biofuel. But farming communities worry about the impact on air quality. (AP Video/Terry Chea)
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Heat dome headed to eastern Canada, what is this weather phenomenon?
What is a heat dome? Meteorologist Rhythm Reet joins Rachel Schoutsen to break down the hot, hot weather heading to parts of Canada this week, as well as what the rest of Canada will experience.
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Much of US braces for extreme weather, from southern heat wave to possible snow in the Rockies
After days of intense flooding in Florida, that state and many others are bracing for an intense heat wave, while the Pacific Northwest will experience unseasonably cold weather and there is a potential for late-season snow in the Rocky Mountains early next week.
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Wild horses return to Kazakh plain after centuries
Przewalski's horses roamed Asia for millennia before dying out and surviving only in European zoos.
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Venomous snake bites dog at Connecticut state park, prompting risky mountaintop rescue
A dog in Connecticut faced a risky mountaintop rescue after being bitten by a venomous copperhead snake.
- The Olympian
Invasive species — a threat to wine grapes — shipped to California, officials say
It “has the potential to affect the entire winegrape industry.”
- LA Times
The best spots to see 58,000 jacaranda trees in L.A., O.C.
The jacarandas are blooming in all their glory. These maps show where you can find high concentrations of the love-it-or-hate-it tree.
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Damp, snowy conditions for B.C.'s final weekend of spring
Cooler than normal, rain, snow and even the risk for thunderstorms this weekend across B.C. More details with Meteorologist Melinda Singh.
- LA Times
El Niño makes an exit, but La Niña could bring dry conditions back to California
There is a 65% chance that La Niña conditions will develop between July and September. The climate pattern is associated with dry weather in Southern California.
- BBC
Drones reveal Antarctic whale 'acrobatics'
Aerial footage of humpback whales shows how efficiently they can twist and turn their huge bodies.
- USA TODAY
Massive heat wave heading for USA next week. Cities have been preparing for this.
Forecasters say a heat wave will spread across much of the central and eastern U.S. next week, a moment health officials have been preparing for.
- CBC
Potato growers from the Philippines eager to learn from P.E.I. industry
A group from the Philippines has been travelling around Prince Edward Island this week, trying to learn all they can from the P.E.I. potato industry. The delegation includes members of the United Potato Producers of Benguet Mountain Province Incorporated (UPPBMI), as well as Cheryl Cabellero with the Philippines' Department of Agriculture.Cabellero said the trip has a couple of goals: to give Filipino farmers an "immersion" with their counterparts on P.E.I., and to explore policies to support th
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A heat wave is expected to bake the U.S. next week. Here's a look at the forecast — and how to stay safe.
Record-breaking high temperatures are likely across the country.