Why are snowfalls unusually heavy now?
Meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe explains why some places are seeing heavier snowfalls than usual despite global warming.
Meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe explains why some places are seeing heavier snowfalls than usual despite global warming.
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The Sonoran desert spans 100,000 miles across Mexico and the southwestern United States
Diamond Valley Lake — a backbone of the region's water storage system — should refill to its full capacity by the end of this year, officials said.
A significant storm rolling into Ontario will create a sharp divide between abundant winter to the north and a dismal, wind-driven rain to the south.
A large hole capable of generating solar winds north of a million miles per hour has appeared on the surface of the sun for the second time in a week. It is known as a coronal hole - and this one is 20 times bigger than Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted it, and it could send superfast solar winds of 1.8 million miles per hour hurtling towards our planet as early as Thursday.
TORONTO — Two First Nation leaders were removed from Ontario's legislative chamber Wednesday after shouting at Premier Doug Ford over concerns about plans to expand mining operations on and around their lands in the so-called Ring of Fire region. Those plans include the province's intention to build a road to the Ring of Fire and mine the large swath of land in northern Ontario that's said to rich in critical minerals, which the government wants to use in its push to build electric vehicles. "Th
Final days of March in Ontario to feature a rapid change in weather, followed by a soggy and windy finale. Everything is on the table, so be sure to plan ahead
More than 2,100 people from as far away as Concord and Santa Cruz reported feeling the tremor.
Atka joined the Colorado zoo at 8 weeks old, officials said.
The colossal amount of rain and snow that has fallen on California over the past few months equals more than 78 trillion gallons of water.
Premier Blaine Higgs is pitching First Nations on hefty revenue potential if they agree to allow new shale gas development in New Brunswick. But at least one Mi'kmaw chief is already standing in opposition to any new potential fracking because of environmental concerns and worries that it's being used as a political bargaining chip. Higgs confirmed in an interview that his government sent all chiefs a letter this month outlining how they could potentially see between $800 million and $1.6 billio
Decades of logging activities near rivers in B.C.'s Interior are driving up the temperatures of coho salmon habitats and threatening the species' survival, according to a new study. The study by Simon Fraser University and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), published last month in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, looked into 28 tributaries of the North Thompson River watershed from Kamloops to Valemount. It found the more extensive the logging activities near headwater str
The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 660,200 square miles in the Arctic - and if it melts completely, would raise global sea level by 23 feet.
The effort to feed thousands of pounds of lettuce to starving manatees in Florida officially ended for the winter season Wednesday, as deaths of the marine mammals appear to be slowing despite the long-term threat of pollution to their main food source, seagrass. It was the second year of the experimental feeding program that was launched because of the deaths of at least 1,100 manatees in 2021, which was by far the most ever recorded. All told, more than 2,000 manatees have died mostly of starvation from January 2021 through March 10 of this year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
A lawsuit over the use of pink fire retardant could reshape how the U.S. Forest Service battles wildfires as they grow larger and more destructive.
China's outstanding green loans currently exceed 22 trillion yuan ($3.2 trillion), accounting for about 10% of the country's total loan balance, People's Bank of China Governor Yi Gang said on Wednesday. Separately, China's green bonds have hit more than 2.5 trillion yuan, Yi said at the Boao Forum in southern China's Hainan province.
An osprey has been spotted soaking up the sun after flying thousands of miles from Scotland to Barbados. The female bird of prey, which was tagged with a colour ring last summer in Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park in Renfrewshire, was spotted on the eastern Caribbean island earlier this month. An expert from the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation said the epic transatlantic adventure covers more than 4,000 miles and it is believed to be first time a UK osprey has been observed in the Americas.
OTTAWA — Clean electricity was one of the stars of Tuesday's federal budget, with almost $1 in every $8 of new spending the budget anticipates in the next five years targeting Canada's electricity dreams. That includes a new tax credit worth 15 per cent of investments made to build new renewable energy infrastructure, including wind and solar plants, nuclear reactors, emissions-trapping natural gas plants, new transmission lines between provinces and territories and stationary electricity storag
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning from Thursday evening as 70mph winds are expected to affect the south of England and Wales.
Curious humans are disrupting the dolphins’ sleep cycles