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Entangled right whale seen in St. Lawrence River estuary: DFO

Entangled right whale seen in St. Lawrence River estuary: DFO

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it's aware of an entangled North Atlantic right whale on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River estuary. It says the whale was spotted in the Saguenay-St.
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Arizona's rural groundwater deal stalls as legislative session nears end

Arizona's rural groundwater deal stalls as legislative session nears end

WENDEN, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona's governor and the GOP-controlled Legislature are at odds over regulating groundwater pumping in the state's rural areas — and time is running out. Democratic Gov.
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Alpine village is largely destroyed when a Swiss glacier collapses

Alpine village is largely destroyed when a Swiss glacier collapses

GENEVA (AP) — A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a prec
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A journalist was killed while writing a book on the Amazon. Here's how friends completed his work

A journalist was killed while writing a book on the Amazon. Here's how friends completed his work

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete.
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Minister says CFIA following due process in B.C. ostrich cull case

Minister says CFIA following due process in B.C. ostrich cull case

The federal agriculture minister says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is following "due process" as it prepares for a cull of about 400 ostriches at a farm in British Columbia. Protesters have called for the ostriches at the farm in Edgewood, B.
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Tenant group pushes for climate protections in report highlighting extreme heat risks

Tenant group pushes for climate protections in report highlighting extreme heat risks

A Canadian tenant advocacy group says nearly half the renters they surveyed don't have air conditioning, as they press for protections from climate-fuelled extreme heat.
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Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn

Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world's top weather agencies forecast.
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Nova Scotia landowners can say no to uranium exploration on their properties: deputy

Nova Scotia landowners can say no to uranium exploration on their properties: deputy

HALIFAX — Private landowners in Nova Scotia whose properties were recently identified for potential uranium exploration can say no to work proceeding, says a provincial deputy minister.
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US peregrine falcons adapt well to city living as their coastal cousins struggle with bird flu

US peregrine falcons adapt well to city living as their coastal cousins struggle with bird flu

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — After rebounding in recent decades due to conservation efforts, the number of once-imperiled peregrine falcons in the U.S.
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World's nations to gather in France to tackle what UN says is a global emergency in the oceans

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world’s nations are gathering in France next month to tackle what the United Nations calls a global emergency facing the world’s oceans as they confront rising temperatures, plastic pollution choking marine life, and relentl
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