Widespread heavy snowfall continues overnight across B.C. South Coast
A significant overnight snowfall will make for hazardous travel across the Lower Mainland, including Metro Vancouver. Meteorologist Jaclyn Whittal has the details.
A significant overnight snowfall will make for hazardous travel across the Lower Mainland, including Metro Vancouver. Meteorologist Jaclyn Whittal has the details.
Scientists began to take the creature seriously after one was accidentally captured.
“It was more like an explosion that lit up the sky.”
After a sneak preview of mid-May weather on the weekend, temperatures in B.C. are set to fall back to Earth this week, giving residents a false start to the season.
Four elk died after the shooting, wildlife officials said.
A California town is engulfed in floodwater, but residents fear what will happen if they flee.
A weary, storm-soaked California is bracing for another bout of heavy rain, power outages and potential flooding this week.
Multiple rounds of unsettled weather will take aim as spring kicks off in Ontario, with rain in the south and another healthy shot of snow in northern sections.
“Amazing and scary.”
The man and his wife splashed water at the animal to scare it off, wildlife officials said.
Another storm is here and another is on the way in California, and the beginning of spring will be cooler than usual for much of the country. Updates.
Officials say multiple fish species were swept up in the die-off, contributing to the massive number of dead fish in the river.
Rare waterfalls were observed in Gunlock State Park, Utah, after heavy rainfall brought flooding to the Santa Clara River.Video recorded by photographer RJ Hooper between Thursday, March 16, and Saturday, March 18, shows the impressive stream of water move through the iconic Utah red desert.Gunlock State Park officials said the waterfalls have only occurred a “few times in the last decade”.Park officials issued an updated advisory on Sunday, March 19, advising visitors that the area near the waterfalls was closed as crews removed debris. Credit: RJ Hooper via Storyful
Farmers in Agassiz, B.C. finally have a solution to their thousand-tonne problem. Agassiz farmer Gerald Struys says farms in the area accumulate about 1,200 to 1,400 tonnes of agricultural plastic every year — about the equivalent of 350 Asian elephants. "It's important to find a way to recycle [the plastic] because just dumping in a landfill isn't doing any good," said Struys, who is also the chair of the Kent Ag Plastics society. Agricultural plastic includes bale wrap and bunker covers used t
OTTAWA — Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is emphasizing his call for stronger links between Ottawa and Alberta when it comes to environmental protection in the oilsands. Guilbeault repeated today his plan for a new body with federal and provincial members that would share information, especially on environmental emergencies like the releases from Imperial Oil's Kearl mine in Alberta. Guilbeault, in a letter last week to his provincial counterpart, Sonya Savage, spelled out what he
The Houston government has amended provincial cap-and-trade regulations to exempt Nova Scotia Power and ratepayers from $165 million in pollution payments — the paperwork needed to deliver a promise it announced last year. On Monday, the province said amendments to the cap-and-trade program regulations issued in a March 16 cabinet order effectively wipe 2.6 megatonnes of carbon emissions from Nova Scotia Power's account. That represents emissions from fossil fuels the company was forced to buy a
Spring officially arrives, but with a winter blizzard on Canada's East Coast. Over 50 cm of snow could stack up for some
STORY: This Egyptian startup is aiming to turn billions of plastic bags into tilesLocator: Sharqiya, EgyptTileGreen's product could reduce the amount of waste going into the Mediterranean Seaand help bring down emissionsfrom the building sectorPlastic waste is melted and compressed at a factory on the outskirts of CairoThe tiles are used for outdoor paving(Khaled Raafat, TileGreen co-founder)“So far, we have recycled more than five million plastic bags, but this is just the beginning. We aim that by 2025, we will have recycled more than five billion plastic bags. Currently, we have plans to expand in Egypt, and we have plans to expand in some Arab countries. We started working on this with our partners, real estate developers and contracting companies who tried our product and liked it very much and want to spread its usage.”Egypt is one of the worst polluters in the Mediterranean regionNearly 82,000 tons of plastic waste enter the sea each yearThat’s according to a 2020 report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
The husband and wife will journey 17,000 miles from the Arctic to Antarctica, aided by renewables.
A colony of rats that some residents have claimed are ‘as big as cats’ have invaded a Welsh coastal resort.
OTTAWA — Canada will take a "hard long look" at a call from global climate scientists to hit its long-term greenhouse gas emissions targets 10 years earlier than planned, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday. But he wouldn't promise that it's possible. His comments came after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new report Monday warning the world is teetering dangerously close to missing its critical targets to keep global warming in check. The pan