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Descrease article font size Increase article font size As forest fires rage on, smog warnings and air quality statements were in effect early Friday for a large swath of…

New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice. A paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature has concluded that those northern waters could be open for months at a time as early…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Quebec is dealing with more than 150 wildfires — and now people across the province will see hazy, smoky conditions…

The head of Imperial Oil heard Thursday how a nine-month delay before informing downstream communities about a seeping tailings pond on a company oilsands mine created weeks of fear and rumours. “This was not uncertainty, this was…

The East Coast’s whipsaw shifts between freeze and thaw has complicated life for the Canada Winter Games, as athletes and organizers adapt to what climate scientists say is the new reality of less snow. Jean-Philippe Le Guellec, the…

Don’t like the weather? Wait five minutes. It’s a common enough phrase during Alberta’s summer storm season, but this winter people across the province are also living through near-daily temperature swings ranging from bitterly cold…

William Gaikezheyongai has lived outside long enough to know where to get water in times of extreme heat. He knows construction workers usually have water bottles in their vans, so he’ll ask for one and douse himself with it. On…

The record-breaking heat wave that scorched western North America last June was among the most extreme ever recorded globally, new modelling and analysis by researchers at universities in the United Kingdom shows. The study published…

Environment Canada has upgraded a weather alert for parts of B.C.’s South Coast to a rainfall warning. The warning applies to Metro Vancouver, the Sunshine Coast and Howe Sound. The Fraser Valley, Whistler and eastern, western…