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Phoenix could get a mild break from the extreme heat, as record spell nears the 30-day mark

PHOENIX (AP) — Longtime Phoenix residents know that sweltering Julys are to be expected, but no one could have predicted the brutal heat wave that has enveloped the country's fifth largest city this summer.

Jul 25, 2023 8:04 PM Read more >

Golden Fire in southern Oregon burns dozens of homes and cuts 911 service

BONANZA, Ore. (AP) — A wildfire that started over the weekend in southern Oregon has burned dozens of homes and caused area residents to lose 911 service and internet, state officials said Tuesday.

Jul 25, 2023 6:23 PM Read more >

Blazes burn near Invermere, Cranbrook, Kamloops, as B.C. faces record wildfire season

VANCOUVER — A wildfire in southeastern British Columbia that was first spotted Monday afternoon has charred nine square kilometres and is threatening more than 1,000 properties, including a ski resort, west of Invermere.

Jul 25, 2023 5:39 PM Read more >

B.C. ranchers struggle as drought sends hay prices soaring

British Columbia rancher Suzanne Fradette had just got off the phone with a hay broker who had grim news amid an ongoing drought that has sent feed prices soaring: "It's bad out there.

Jul 25, 2023 4:18 PM Read more >

Traps removed after no sign of the grizzly that killed a woman near Yellowstone

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife workers on Tuesday halted their efforts to capture a grizzly bear that killed a woman over the weekend near Yellowstone National Park after finding no sign of the animal since the day of the attack.

Jul 25, 2023 3:35 PM Read more >

Climate change leaves fingerprints on July heat waves around the globe, study says

The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe this month, a new study finds.

Jul 25, 2023 3:32 PM Read more >

N.S. RCMP describe power and height of floodwaters that left three dead, one missing

WINDSOR, N.S. — The Nova Scotia RCMP provided a description Tuesday of the terrifying power of torrential floodwaters that took the lives of a man and two children early Saturday and left a youth missing. Sgt.

Jul 25, 2023 3:09 PM Read more >

What are cloudbursts and is climate change making them more frequent?

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Last Saturday, Mohammed Aslam was working in his kitchen garden when he heard his fellow villagers shouting that water was coming from the nearby foothills in southern Kulgam area in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Jul 25, 2023 12:38 PM Read more >

Massachusetts rejects request to discharge radioactive water from closed nuclear plant into bay

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts environmental regulators have denied a request by the company dismantling a shuttered nuclear power plant to release more than 1 million gallons (3.8 million liters) of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay.

Jul 25, 2023 11:43 AM Read more >

Asia-Pacific needs disaster warning systems to counter rising climate change risks, report says

BANGKOK (AP) — Countries in the Asia-Pacific region need to drastically increase their investments in disaster warning systems and other tools to counter rising risks from climate change , a United Nations report said Tuesday.

Jul 25, 2023 8:15 AM Read more >