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Invasive species lead to access restrictions in B.C., Alberta national parks
Yoho National Park signage is shown in this handout image. Parks Canada officials say they're closely watching lakes and rivers in Kootenay and Yoho national parks for a parasite that could "decimate" as much as 90 per cent of young trout and salmon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Parks Canada **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Barrick shuts down water supply after uranium found at copper mine in Zambia
Barrick’s Lumwana copper mine is a conventional open pit operation. It’s located about 100 kilometers west of Solwezi in Zambia’s Copperbelt.
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City of Calgary warns outdoor water restrictions may be coming if dry conditions persist
The City of Calgary is warning outdoor water use restrictions may be coming by May 1 if dry conditions keep up. The Bow River flows through the downtown as warm fall weather continues in Calgary, Alta., Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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B.C. to provide $80-million to help farmers cope with drought
The British Columbia government says it is better equipping farmers to deal with drought, supplying $80 million in funding for irrigation. Dry needles on a grand fir tree are shown in the Cowichan Valley area of Duncan, B.C., on July 31, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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Globe Climate: Alberta’s drought is testing the limits of its water-licensing regime
A view of Oldman River which flows into the Oldman Reservoir, which according to local news media is at its lowest point in 30 years, near Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada March 15, 2024. REUTERS/Todd Korol
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The discovery of an eagles’ nest in Toronto suggests cities are no longer nature’s enemy
Marcus Gee
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Rory McIlroy has a lot of birdies, a little drama and a share of The Players lead
Rory McIlroy tees off on the seventh hole during the first round of The Players Championship golf tournament Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
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Saskatchewan government to start work on $1.15-billion irrigation project
The Saskatchewan government says it's to begin work on a $1.15-billion project to expand irrigation in the province. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe sits for a photograph in the premier’s office at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in Regina, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu</div>
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Alberta First Nations want Ottawa to class oil sands tailings component as toxin
Demonstrators rally against Imperial Oil’s ongoing tailings pond leak, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Blair Gable
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Alberta considers new water reservoirs to improve future drought resiliency
Rebecca Schulz speaks at a campaign launch rally in Calgary on Sat., April 29, 2023.The Alberta government is promising to invest $125 million over the next five years to protect communities against flood and drought. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Globe Climate: Can we modify the weather to help fight drought?
One of four cloud-seeding generators installed in hopes of bringing more water to Nye County, Nevada.
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Conditions inside Fukushima’s melted nuclear reactors still unclear 13 years after disaster struck
FILE - This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023, shortly after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings TEPCO began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Japan on Monday, March 11, 2024, marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. (Kyodo News via AP, File)
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Alberta’s continuing drought represents the greatest test yet of its water-licensing system
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Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation suing Alberta Energy Regulator over tailings leak
Handout photo of the overland spill (as opposed to the underground leaks). This is the 5.3 million litre spill that happened Feb 6, 2023. The disturbed land in the foreground is Imperial's remediation efforts, chopping down the trees, and removing the topsoil. But our fear is that it soaked into the permeable surface and muskeg.
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Canadian nurse returned from Gaza reflects on her Doctors Without Borders assignment
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) is seen at the international medical humanitarian organisation MSF logistique centre in Merignac near Bordeaux, France, December 6, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/File Photo
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Canadian man drives off Hawaiian cliff, falls from wreck, washes out to sea, survives
Mike Moody, as shown in this handout image, was fishing off the Big Island of Hawaii early Sunday when a Canadian tourist drove his rented Jeep off a cliff. Moody poses with his catch of the day and the Canadian man's mangled Jeep in the background in this undated photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO- **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Rural Nevada bets big on cloud seeding, pitting fears of drought against doubts in the science
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Kayakers paddle in Death Valley after rains replenish lake in one of Earth's driest spots
A paddle boarder paddles through water at Badwater Basin, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. The basin, normally a salt flat, has filled from rain over the past few months. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Alberta regulator will hear Australian company’s revived plan for a controversial coal mine
The Rocky Mountains west of Nanton where ranchers and farmers worried about pollution and their water supplies objected to a new proposed coal mine by the Jason Kenney government in Alberta. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail
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First Nations call on feds to oppose nuclear waste disposal site near Ottawa River
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