Environment News

A U.S. appeals court has temporarily blocked the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America. The transfer was scheduled for Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan reopened damaged roads in the north and northwest and restored 70% of the region's electricity after flash floods there killed more than 300 people, officials said Tuesday, as a downpour continued to lash several flood-hit r

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government is revising its budget deficit upward by almost 22 per cent, adding that "unstable trade conditions" and poor weather are casting a shadow over the province's finances.

Quebec City has started synchronizing traffic lights with the use of Google's artificial intelligence, technology the city says will improve traffic flow, reduce congestion, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

MUMBAI, India (AP) — A commuter train is stalled on a railway track that is submerged in water. Passengers get off it, open their umbrellas and leave, frustrated by the abrupt stop in their journey.

Hurricane Erin forced tourists to cut their vacations short on North Carolina’s Outer Banks even though the monster storm is expected to stay offshore after lashing part of the Caribbean with rain and wind on Monday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Anguished Pakistanis searched remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll reached 277 on Monday, while one official replied to the lack of evacuation warnings by saying people should have bui

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says the weather is not co-operating in his province's fight against a major wildfire burning out of control in the Annapolis Valley. "Unfortunately, the weather this weekend was not in our favour.

TORONTO — Extreme heat is endangering students, workers, renters and some of Ontario's most vulnerable residents, a network of civil society groups said Monday as they urged the province to better prepare for sweltering temperatures.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's independent forestry watchdog says it will conduct an audit of a logging licence for more than 1,000 square kilometres of land that encompasses critical habitat for the endangered northern spotted owl.