Fog advisory ends for Toronto
A fog advisory has been lifted for Toronto.
Environment Canada issued the fog advisory for the city at 7:15 a.m. on Sunday.
The advisory was lifted just before 10 a.m.
A fog advisory has been lifted for Toronto.
Environment Canada issued the fog advisory for the city at 7:15 a.m. on Sunday.
The advisory was lifted just before 10 a.m.
Trapped Gases NASA has released a new visualization that shows copious amounts of carbon dioxide swirling around the Earth's atmosphere. The video shows how concentrations of the gas move across the planet, driven by wind and atmospheric circulation, from January through March 2020. The level of detail is truly astonishing, allowing us to "zoom in […]
Tuataras are one of the world’s oldest surviving species and lived on Earth before the dinosaurs.
More than 290,000 people in China have been forced to flee their homes
Manila street vendor Zenaida Cuerda said Thursday she is "back to zero" after floodwaters washed away the food she sells for a living and swept through her house.We're now back to zero.
TikTok users fear the recently released Netflix horror film Under Paris is coming to life
Typhoon Gaemi passed through Taiwan overnight and was headed towards eastern China on Thursday, leaving two dead as heavy rains and strong gusts continued to lash the island in its wake. Taiwan is accustomed to frequent tropical storms from July to October, but experts say climate change has increased their intensity, leading to heavy rains, flash floods and strong gusts.
Chinese weather forecasters say Typhoon Gaemi’s impact will be felt by a wide region, including areas not directly on its path
A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances filed a lawsuit Friday challenging amendments to the island’s net metering law, which compensates solar-equipped households for their contributions to the grid, triggering a backlash. The lawsuit filed against Gov. Pedro Pierluisi aims to protect the independence of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau so it “can continue to operate free from political influence,” the board said. The board said that it is not seeking to end net metering as alleged, nor impose changes to the net metering program.
Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain have killed seven people in northern Vietnam and swept away homes, disaster officials and state media said Thursday.In mid-July, a landslide triggered by heavy rains killed 11 people travelling in a van in northern Ha Giang province.
Labour claims the UK will not face another energy crisis as a result of this new company.
Scores of wildfires across the United States and Canada have scorched swaths of land in California, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Alberta and beyond, forcing evacuations and road closures, as well as destroying and threatening structures. The Durkee Fire in Baker County, Oregon, is the largest active blaze in the U.S., which merged with the Cow Fire to burn nearly 630 square miles (1,630 square kilometers). The blaze started nine days ago and remains unpredictable.
Trapped inside a car, the adult black bear and cub thrashed about. Outside the car, a second cub ran around in apparent distress by the Connecticut home. State environmental conservation police were called by the startled vehicle owner on the morning of July 15.
Many people living around Perth in eastern Ontario are left cleaning up the aftermath of a tornado that touched down in their area Wednesday night. The tornado was part of a powerful storm system that damaged power lines and uprooted trees.Environment and Climate Change Canada and Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) both believe it developed sometime between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.Video evidence captured the twister on Christie Lake, southwest of Perth, the weather agency said."[Conf
Research showed six out of seven schools had temperatures above a recommended maximum of 26C during a recent heatwave.
A total of 270 flights were canceled at Germany's busiest airport Thursday after environmental activists launched a coordinated effort to disrupt air travel across Europe at the height of the summer vacation season to highlight the threat posed by climate change. Frankfurt Airport said flights were halted for safety reasons after climate activists breached security fences in the early morning. Environmental groups said they planned to target airports around Europe this summer to remind people about the link between fossil fuels, such as those used by airliners, and climate change.
The Atlantic Ocean has been on a nearly three-week long rest after producing historic Hurricane Beryl, but the basin is about to wake up.
STORY: These platypuses are waddling into what researchers hope is something like paradise.::Platypuses They're at the world’s largest conservation center for the Australian duck-billed mammals.::Dubbo, AustraliaThere are streams, waterfalls, and banks of earth to burrow in, custom-built to simulate a habitat threatened by humans - and extreme weather.Research shows platypus numbers have taken a dramatic dive in recent decades with possibly half their number disappearing.But Platypus Rescue HQ - hopes to reverse that trend.:: THIS EARTHTo help these little guys, researchers need some answers to questions that came up after some of Australia's worst wildfires in recent memory.Dr. Phoebe Meagher from the Taronga Conservation Society Australia told Reuters the species' habitat is now 40% smaller than it used to be.:: Phoebe Meagher/Conservation Officer/Taronga Conservation Society Australia“So in 2019, end of 2019, early 2020, we were hit with the Black Summer fires. This was also on the back of a drought that had just happened and platypus habitat was being lost at a really alarming rate. We were getting calls up and down the east coast asking Taronga if we could help rescue platypus that were being left without anywhere to swim and forage and live. We were able to rescue seven from southern Australia. But that's all we had capacity for. So this made us realise that in fact the need to have facilities to rescue catchment scale levels of platypus populations was critical if we wanted to make an impact for the species.”This research facility was built at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, some 240 miles from Sydney so that researchers can study platypuses in a natural-like setting because we don't know as much about the way they live as we should.::Dr Alisa Wallace/Senior Veterinarian/Wildlife Hospital/Taronga Western Plains Zoo“We really don't understand a whole lot about their biology and the things that drive them to breed or not breed and how they might be impacted by changes in water temperature or air temperature, changes in water conditions.”The zoo hopes to breed platypuses for release back into the wild.To make that happen, four of them were tested and quarantined for 30 days before being released into the HQ as part of a pioneering batch.“In the short term, we would love to see some puggles or some baby platypus in the facility and understand what led to that reproductive success. In the long term, we want to have a really defined list of triggers that we can follow and other conservation organisations can follow in a drought or in a bushfire of how to go in, how to rescue a platypus population, how to transport them back to a facility and then look after them as an insurance population until that location is ready for those animals to be reintroduced to. I think this facility will allow us to not only save species in the immediate threats of climate change, but also in the long term, be able to repopulate those populations.”The facility was set up after ten of the animals were successfully reintroduced into the country's oldest national park south of Sydney last year, where they hadn't been seen in half a century.
STORY: Streets were quiet in Taiwan on Thursday after a powerful and deadly typhoon swept the island, killing at least two people and sinking a freighter offshore, whose crew are still missing.Typhoon Gaemi was the strongest cyclone to hit Taiwan in eight years.The weather authority says the storm made landfall around midnight on the northeastern coast of Yilan, packing gusts of up to 141 miles per hour before weakening.The storm cut power to around half a million households in Taiwan, though the local power utility said most of it had been restored by midday Thursday.The government said on top of the two people killed in the storm, more than 260 were counted as injured.Gaemi dumped rain across the island - with eyewitness video showing floods in the southern city of Kaohsiung.Fire officials also said a Tanzania-flagged freighter with nine Myanmar nationals on board had sunk off the city's coast.Authorities said they were searching for the crew, who have not responded to communications.Separately, Philippine officials said they are investigating whether a sinking of a marine tanker in rough seas off their own coast on Thursday was related to the storm.Gaemi did not make landfall in the Philippines, but flooded the capital Manila and nearby towns the day before, with hundreds of homes still without power.Officials said at least 14 people there had died.Meanwhile Gaemi is now barreling toward mainland China, where forecasters there say they expect a less intense storm, but heavy rain in many areas.State media reports authorities gave warnings for coastal provinces Fujian and Zhejiang, suspended train services, and relocated some 150,000 people.
Classrooms hit nearly 30C during last month’s heatwave and caused some pupils to vomit and faint, a study has found.
A walrus calf seemingly left behind by her herd near Alaska’s northernmost city is alert and “sassy” as she receives care at a nonprofit wildlife response center hundreds of miles away following her recent rescue, a center spokesperson said Thursday. Alaska SeaLife Center spokesperson Kaiti Grant said the nearly 165-pound (75-kilogram), crinkly-bodied Pacific walrus arrived at the center in Seward late Monday from Utqiagvik, some 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) away. The calf arrived at the center nearly a year after it took in a 200-pound (90-kilogram) male calf that was found alone and miles from the ocean on Alaska’s North Slope.