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State of emergency declared in Quebec town due to flood risk, more towns evacuating

State of emergency declared in Quebec town due to flood risk, more towns evacuating

MONTREAL — A town near Quebec City declared a state of local emergency and other communities ordered preventive evacuations on Tuesday as torrential rain caused rivers across southern Quebec to burst free of their banks.
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Appeals court blocks construction on Mountain Valley Pipeline even after Congress says it can't

Appeals court blocks construction on Mountain Valley Pipeline even after Congress says it can't

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a contentious natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia, this time doing so even after Congress ordered the project's approval.
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Feds offer additional money to disaster response groups as climate change worsens

Feds offer additional money to disaster response groups as climate change worsens

OTTAWA — Four Canadian humanitarian aid groups are to use millions of dollars in new funding from the federal government to deploy response teams more quickly as climate change increases the demand on their services.
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Cabins destroyed by wildfire near Tulita, N.W.T.

Cabins destroyed by wildfire near Tulita, N.W.T.

TULITA, N.W.T. — The Northwest Territories government says several cabins near Tulita have likely been destroyed by a wildfire burning in the area.
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Birth of the modern: Canadian site nominated as "Golden Spike" to mark Anthropocene

Birth of the modern: Canadian site nominated as "Golden Spike" to mark Anthropocene

A team of geologists has concluded, after a studying sites around the globe, that a tiny, deep lake in southern Ontario should mark the birth of the modern world.
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Court sides with Amish families in case that pits septic tank rules against religious beliefs

Court sides with Amish families in case that pits septic tank rules against religious beliefs

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don't need to install septic systems to dispose of their “gray water,” the state Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a long-running religious freedom case that went all the
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Deadly flooding is hitting several countries at once. Scientists say this will only be more common

Deadly flooding is hitting several countries at once. Scientists say this will only be more common

Schools in New Delhi were forced to close Monday after heavy monsoon rains battered the Indian capital , with landslides and flash floods killing at least 15 people over the last three days.
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Leonardo DiCaprio to fund scholarships, climate education at his former elementary school

Leonardo DiCaprio to fund scholarships, climate education at his former elementary school

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio will fund scholarships and a climate education program at the UCLA-based elementary school where he was once himself a scholarship student, the actor and the college said Tuesday.
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EU faces cliffhanger vote on major bill protecting nature and fighting climate change

EU faces cliffhanger vote on major bill protecting nature and fighting climate change

BRUSSELS (AP) — Protesters and legislators converged on the European Union parliament Tuesday as the bloc prepared a cliffhanger vote on protecting its threatened nature and shielding it from disruptive environmental change, in a test of the EU's glo
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Cold temperatures to continue in South Africa but no further snowfall is predicted

Cold temperatures to continue in South Africa but no further snowfall is predicted

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African weather officials warned on Tuesday of continued extremely cold weather, but said no further snow was predicted for the rest of the week after parts of the country experienced unusual flurries.
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