There is a warning from Island Health about a poisonous mushroom known as the "Death Cap", which has been spotted in residential areas near Victoria.

Hot, dry weather over the northern Interior is keeping wildfire season alive longer than normal.

One B.C. First Nation is preparing to revive traditional firekeeping to rejuvenate the forest and reduce the risk of destructive forest fires.

We are losing coastline due to erosion and this is a sad sight to witness.

Weatherwatch A recent heatwave in Siberia’s frozen wastes has resulted in outbreaks of deadly anthrax and a series of violent explosions

University of Alberta scientists are alerting the public to a potentially lethal tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis which infects humans through the feces of coyotes and dogs.

In some recent years, GHG emissions from BC wildfires have been more than from all other sectors put together

Little early for blueberry to be ripe.

The potentially fatal death cap mushrooms that killed a three-year-old boy last year are popping up early in Uplands. The mushroom, known by the scientific name Amanita phalloides, was discovered.

Teller, Alaska is identified by the US Army Corps of Engineers as one of 31 villages in imminent danger of the effects of climate change.

Black slugs are impacting native plants in the Chugach Forest and may be spreading elsewhere.

A mycologist said the Amanita phalloides has sprouted up in Victoria again.

France has launched a special smartphone application to track a rocketing plague of ticks, which cause over 30,000 cases of Lyme disease par year and pose a threat to thousands of British holidaymakers who take to the French countryside in summer.

'No one had ever heard of it': Woman dies from rare tick-borne virus.

The grandchildren of Annie Kruger remember her lighting an Export A Green cigarette, throwing on her logger's jacket and heading out to set fires near Penticton, B.C. — part of an ancient tradition of using flames to clear brush, renew growth and create natural fireguards.

Island Health confirms the fungus, known scientifically as Amanita phalloides, has already flowered in Uplands this July.

These ticks may have been an example of one native species in Alaska.

26 fires are burning in the Old Crow district but Yukon Wildland Fire says the community is not at risk

Flowering is occurring months early.

Alaskans from St. Lawrence Island were hospitalized with the food-borne parasite trichinella, which used to more typically infect pork. The CDC and state public health officials issued warnings.