4+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1309+ words) Winnipeg 20° C, Partly cloudy with wind The fire in rural Guadalajara comes less than two weeks after a deadly blaze devastated a small expat community in southern Spain. That small but extremely virulent fire killed 13 people, including several foreigners, in…...

10+ hour, 19+ min ago   (614+ words) Winnipeg 13° C, Clear Winnipeg’s roads are buckling. Ontario forests are burning. Toronto chokes on wildfire smoke. The summer heat dome in Europe has already killed thousands. Climate change is not some future dystopian vision. It’s right here, right now. And…...

22+ hour, 12+ min ago   (103+ words) Here are the latest numbers on British Columbia’s wildfire season Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg 18° C, Partly cloudy with wind VANCOUVER - Wildfire and government officials in British Columbia have provided an update on the season to date. Here are some key…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1008+ words) Winnipeg 15° C, Windy Wildfires raging in northern Ontario appear to have pushed the province to its worst wildfire season on record. The province’s latest numbers suggest fires have burned through more than 7,250 square kilometres of Ontario’s forest, surpassing the previous…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (345+ words) Winnipeg 24° C, Partly cloudy with wind MONTREAL – Quebec and Ottawa have agreed to streamline the environmental assessment process for major infrastructure and resource development projects. Quebec Environment Minister Pascale Déry and Quebec Lieutenant Joël Lightbound announced an agreement in principle…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (535+ words) Fausto emerged from a tropical depression about 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) south-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and was expected to undergo steady or rapid strengthening and become a hurricane by Monday night, the U.S. National Hurricane Center…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (973+ words) Winnipeg 18° C, Sunny OTTAWA – A large majority of Canadians in a recent poll said they worry that artificial intelligence data centres will hike their power bills and harm the environment. In the Leger poll, 81 per cent of respondents said they…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1010+ words) The preparations come as meteorologists warn that El Nino is already underway and increasingly likely to strengthen through the remainder of the year. Unlike hurricanes or earthquakes, the climate phenomenon develops gradually over months, which gives governments time to prepare…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1092+ words) Air quality warnings were expected to remain in effect through Saturday across a wide swath of the U.S., but there’s potential for temporary relief with rains and storms forecast over a chunk of the affected region over the weekend. The smoky…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (895+ words) Winnipeg 24° C, Partly cloudy with wind The magnitude of climate change denial slapped me in the face in — of all places — the grassy parking lots at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Back for a visit to see my daughter and hear…...