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Deadly tornadoes leave trail of destruction in Deep South
Extensive storm damage in Rolling Fork, Miss., where witnesses said the main commercial strip had been devastated and the National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado had touched down, on March 25, 2023. Rescuers were pulling people from rubble across the South on Saturday morning after a powerful storm system killed at least 23 in Mississippi and one more in Alabama. (Rory Doyle/The New York Times)
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As our cities grow warmer, it’s time to rethink what and where nature is
Caitlin Stall-Paquet
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Bertie Gregory’s epic adventure
Bertie Gregory at the water's surface. (Credit: National Geographic/Hugh Pearson for Disney+)
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Widespread damage as tornado moves through Mississippi
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Alberta energy regulator issues order against Obsidian Energy, saying disposal caused earthquakes
The Alberta Energy Regulator says it has laid charges against Land Petroleum International Inc. and president Bill Fung for hindering AER inspections in 2018. The Alberta Energy Regulator logo is seen on a flag at the opening of the regulator's office in Calgary in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alberta Energy Regulator, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Endangered whale population now threatened by inbreeding, study finds
FILE - Southern Resident killer whale J50 and her mother, J16, swim off the west coast of Vancouver Island near Port Renfrew, B.C. on Aug. 7, 2018. Teams searched Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, for the sick, critically endangered orca in the waters of Washington state and Canada, but a scientist who closely tracks the population in the Pacific Northwest said he believes the whale, known as J50, has died. New research suggests that inbreeding may be a key reason that the Pacific Northwest's endangered population of killer whales has failed to recover despite decades of conservation efforts. The so-called "southern resident" population of orcas stands at 73 whales. That's just two more than in 1971, after scores of the whales were captured for display in marine theme parks around the world. (Brian Gisborne/Fisheries and Oceans Canada via AP, File)
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Alberta Energy Regulator cites company for causing seismic events in Peace River area
The Alberta Energy Regulator says it has laid charges against Land Petroleum International Inc. and president Bill Fung for hindering AER inspections in 2018. The Alberta Energy Regulator logo is seen on a flag at the opening of the regulator's office in Calgary in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alberta Energy Regulator, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Further delays on decision for Enbridge Energy Great Lakes oil tunnel
FILE - In this photo provided by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, footage played on a television screen shows damage to anchor support EP-17-1 on the east leg of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline within the Straits of Mackinac, Mich., in June 2020. A federal review of plans for the Great Lakes oil pipeline tunnel will take more than a year longer than originally planned, officials said Thursday, March 23, 2023, likely delaying completion of the project — if approved — until 2030 or later. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy via AP, File)
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Logging, forest loss may have awakened ancient B.C. landslides, at cost of about $1-billion
An end slide area sign just before the Cottonwood River on Highway 97 South is shown just outside of Quesnel, B.C., on Thursday, March 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/James Doyle
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Changing climate making snowmobiling riskier, OPP say
Snowmobilers take to the trails near Kinmount, Ontario on Saturday January 23, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Thornhill
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Manitoba government expects spring flooding but not a threat to community defences
Some sections of Highway 75 south to the United States are closed as a result of Red River flooding south of Winnipeg, Sunday, May 15, 2022. The Manitoba government is expecting flooding along the Red River south of Winnipeg this year, although not enough to overcome community dikes and diversions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
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The new climate change report brings the harsh truth into sharp focus
Arno Kopecky
world
A quarter of world population lacks safe drinking water, UN report says
People get drinking water from a water collecting point at a slum area, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. World Water Day will be observed on March 22, to aim to highlight the importance of freshwater and advocate for sustainable management of this vital resource. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
politics
Don’t assume U.S. minds are made up about Safe Third Country treaty, Canada’s envoy says
A family of asylum seekers from Colombia is met by RCMP officers after crossing the border at Roxham Road into Canada Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 in Champlain, New York. President Joe Biden’s administration is not dismissing out of hand the idea of renegotiating the bilateral 2004 treaty that governs the flow of asylum seekers across its northern border, says Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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On the Balkans’ polluted Drina River, three countries’ garbage becomes one city’s mess
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Spring is coming – where is our Canada Water Agency?
John W. Pomeroy, Thomas S. Axworthy and Robert W. Sandford
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Commodity markets likely to escape banking crisis fallout, traders say
FILE PHOTO: A Shell employee walks through the company's Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) facility in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, October 7, 2021. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
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Ottawa needs ‘made-in-Canada’ response to U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, says climate group
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, February 13, 2023. As the federal government readies its spring budget, a climate group is urging Ottawa to pursue a "made-in-Canada" response to U.S. clean energy incentives. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
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Feds warn Ontario they could shut down development near Rouge Park
Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens to members of the media during a press conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Ontario's integrity commissioner says he's setting aside a request from the NDP to issue an opinion on Premier Doug Ford's daughter's stag-and-doe event. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Angling guides go fishing for data to save Fraser River's white sturgeon
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The top five things to take away from the UN’s massive, final climate report
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 04, 2022 A polar bear walks on the shoreline to find something to eat near Churchill, on August 4, 2022. - Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years, but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be but a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a "liveable" future at risk.o concludes the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has started a week-long meeting to distill six landmark reports totalling 10,000 pages prepared by more than 1,000 scientists over the last six years. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Greta Thunberg, climate activists get court nod to sue Swedish state
Greta Thunberg stands among campaigners, who have been protesting in Oslo for over a week against the wind turbines at Fosen, as they end the campaign with a demonstration in Oslo, Norway, March 3, 2023. Alf Simensen/NTB/via REUTERS
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Imperial Oil executives, Alberta regulator called to testify over toxic leak affecting Indigenous communities
Imperial Oil President and CEO Brad Corson answers questions at a news conference, as he is taking over from outgoing President and CEO Rich Kruger in Calgary, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
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Canada will take a ‘hard long look’ at UN call to speed emissions reduction, minister says
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault arrives for a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Thursday, March 9, 2023. Guilbeault says 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. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Globe Climate: The final IPCC report looks dire, but there are bright spots
FILE - The industrial backdrop of a BP refinery and a Uniper coal-fired power plant is seen in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, March 6, 2023. A major new United Nations report being released Monday, March 20, 2023, is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
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Actions to stave off climate breakdown are possible but urgent, UN report says
FILE - People walk through floodwaters after heavy rainfall in Hadeja, Nigeria, Sept 19, 2022. A major new United Nations report being released Monday, March 20, 2023, is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. (AP Photo, File)
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Millions of rotting fish to be removed from river in Australian Outback
Dead fish float along the Darling River near Menindee, Australia, Sunday, March 19, 2023. Specialist contractors will remove millions of rotting fish from an Outback river after an unprecedented die-off caused by depleted oxygen levels due to recent floods and hot weather, police said on Monday, March 20, 2023. (Samara Anderson/AAP Image via AP)
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Strong earthquake kills at least 13 in Ecuador, one in Peru
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Millions of dead fish wash up in Australia amid heat wave
This image grab from a video taken on March 17, 2023 courtesy of Graeme McCrabb shows dead fish clogging a river near the town of Menindee in New South Wales. - Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of river near a remote town in the Australian Outback as a searing heatwave sweeps through the region. (Photo by Handout / Courtesy of Graeme McCrabb / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / COURTESY OF GRAEME MCCRABB" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVE (Photo by HANDOUT/Courtesy of Graeme McCrabb/AFP via Getty Images)
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Range of emotions for residents facing relocation over smelter in Quebec’s Rouyn-Noranda
Fonderie Horne, a foundry owned by Glencore, is seen in Rouyn-Noranda, Que., Oct. 29, 2022. An announcement this week that some 200 families would be relocated from a Rouyn-Noranda neighbourhood contaminated by smelter pollution was met with anxiety and concern for those who will be moved out. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephane Blais
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Should the environmental impact of big projects be assessed by Ottawa? Supreme Court is set to weigh in
Kelly Cryderman
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Alberta Energy Regulator investigating release from coal mine into Smoky River
The Alberta Energy Regulator says it has laid charges against Land Petroleum International Inc. and president Bill Fung for hindering AER inspections in 2018. The Alberta Energy Regulator logo is seen on a flag at the opening of the regulator's office in Calgary in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alberta Energy Regulator, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Ottawa requests joint ‘working group’ on oil sands contamination with Alberta
Tailings samples are being tested during a tour of Imperial's oil sands research centre in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault wants to set up a new group with the Alberta government and Indigenous communities to monitor and oversee contamination problems in the oilsands. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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U.S. state and federal officials tout spending plan to plug ‘orphan wells’
Dilapidated infrastructure remains at the B-5 orphan well site in the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge in Lottie, La., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Two mild earthquakes rattle northern Alberta, no reports of damage
Alberta's provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa, Tuesday June 30, 2020. An area northwest of Edmonton has been rattled by two mild earthquakes and a series of aftershocks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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First Nations living near Imperial Oil leak refuse to drink water from nearby reservoir
Handout photo of the pipes spewing fluid are the tailings ponds. The ponds are built on top of permeable surface, and because of that, and the fact that the berms that surround the ponds were built with the wrong materials, they leak underground. The pictures are showing the tailings ponds "closed loop system" working as designed, to capture the leaking tailings that escape the impoundment and being pumped back into the same ponds that's leaking, only to spill again and repeat the cycle. This system was failing, and tailings were leaking out of 4 ponds were not being caught by their containment system. The pipes pictures filling the pond were just a few hundred meters from the spills. These leaks were happening since at least May 2022, and they never told us.