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VANCOUVER — All campfires across British Columbia were banned Monday, except on the North Coast island of Haida Gwaii, after thousands of lightning strikes and worsening drought conditions resulted in more than 100 new wildfires over the weekend.

There were 86 new fires on Sunday alone.

CHICAGO (AP) — Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly . Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995.

The planet's temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and likely much longer, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high.

Canada's most endangered mammal, the Vancouver Island marmot population was recently boosted after a Calgary breeding program discovered 14 pups hiding in artificial burrows.

DETROIT (AP) — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S.

Protests held outside the offices of B.C. Premier David Eby and 30 federal Members of Parliament called for an end to oil and gas emissions amid a record wildfire season

A first-of-its-kind experiment in a rain garden in Vancouver, B.C., has shown green infrastructure can remove more than 90% of a tire toxin highly lethal to salmon.

OTTAWA — More than one in four Canadians told a polling firm this week that they have been affected by the record-setting wildfires that have rocked much of Canada over the spring, and more than three in four say they think there are more fires now t

The head of B.C.'s River Forecast Centre says the province's rivers are on track for an outlier year, closer to what climate change is expected to do decades into the future.