Her right hand protected by an old plastic bag, Donna Devlin carefully reaches into a shallow sewer basin in her driveway, and drags out a dead rat the size of her forearm. It's the latest casualty in a war that Devlin and her neighbours say they've been fighting, on and off, for two decades.

A fire chief in the south-west said firefighters were called to several fires a day in recent days, saying that all were caused by people who ignored warnings.

Spring blossoms, dusty streets, distant fires and a lack of rain combine to create hazardous respiratory conditions.

Salal bushes observed to be very dry and dying in British Columbia.

Ottawa River water levels in the city are all now higher then they were in 2017, which is the record-setting benchmark the city has been using throughout the flooding.

Approximately 700 dead mottled sea stars (Evasterias troscheli) found with appendages intact, which indicate that mortality event may be related to stormy weather.

A UN official says it looks from the air like parts of Mozambique were "run over by a bulldozer".

Sixty-three endangered Saimaa ringed seal pups were found during the early spring count carried out by forestry workers and volunteers.

The wind is causing trouble in some of the areas affected by wildfires and now more people are having to evacuate their homes.

Pollen from birch trees was carried along with dust from the Sahara Desert on strong winds that originated in Eastern Europe.

Each stunning giant bird was ringed to help scientists trace their migration routes.

Gallery | The fires, which were swept in from Mongolia by high winds, have caused almost $9.4 million in damage.

The cost of the recent fires has been revealed as Vladimir Putin today visited TransBaikal to assess the damage en route to a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Vladivostok

Rabies has been identified by the State of Alaska as being endemic (regularly found) in the fox population in this area.

Aerial shots of what appeared to be remnants of an oil spill in the Essequibo River has turned out to be huge beds of sargassum seaweed which is now a

Seasonal swings set drivers up for bad trip.

Forecasts indicate that ice cover will thin by dozens of centimetres all the way up to Lapland.

At least 90 left homeless in one village after raging infernos, say reports.

the Beaufort Picnic Area appears to consist of stream-origin alluvial cobbles, pebbles, and perhaps sand, and so not well consolidated, thus perhaps making these trees relatively vulnerable to wind. The snapped-off trees, however, indicate the unusually high intensity of this particular windstorm.