Environment News

TORONTO — As summer heat waves intensifyand advocates sound the alarm on the lack of protections for the most vulnerable populations, one extreme weather expert is calling for access to cooling to be treated as a human right.

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating the death of a Toronto man following a marine incident on Big Clear Lake in Central Frontenac Township. Police were called to the area around 4:30 p.m.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from two weeks of monsoon rains rose to at least 55 on Thursday after 12 people, including eight children, died in weather-related incidents in Pakistan amid fears of flash floods, authorities said.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

UNDERWOOD, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters have converged in southwest Washington along the Columbia River Gorge to fight the Tunnel 5 Fire , which ignited and grew rapidly on Sunday and remains at 5% containment.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to government satellite data released Thursday.

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C.

MONTREAL — Quebec's hydro utility was working to restore electricity to clients in Montreal after a problem with a transmission line knocked out power to nearly 200,000 customers on Thursday.

VANCOUVER — More campfire bans are on the way in British Columbia, with a heat wave in many areas not expected to ease for days and a moderate to extreme wildfire risk covering all but the southeast corner of the province.

SMOKY LAKE, Alta. — The Métis Nation of Alberta is celebrating the birth of two bison calves at a cultural park northeast of Edmonton.