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ST. JOHN'S — Residents of a rural Newfoundland town were ordered out of their homes on Wednesday as an out-of-control wildfire burned a few kilometres away. Premier John Hogan said he issued the evacuation order for Badger, N.L.

After nine years in Germany, Kianz Froese was working on the family's coffee plantation/farm in Cuba when he got a call from Josh Carabatsakis, Valour FC's director of football operations. The message was simple.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A hurricane warning has been issued for part of Mexico's Pacific coast as Tropical Storm Erick intensified. Erick was expected to reach hurricane strength as it neared land Wednesday.

BERLIN (AP) — A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted it could make people sick, there's a push by swimmers to get back into the water.

BRASILANDIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River on Tuesday as it aims to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from environmental and Indigenous groups .

BANFF — Leaders of the G7 have agreed to co-operate on efforts to manage the impacts of devastating wildfires, which are surging for another summer across Canada.

Tax credits for clean energy and home energy efficiency would still be phased out, albeit less quickly, under Senate Republicans' latest proposed changes to a massive tax bill.

OTTAWA — The federal government intends to bring back consumer rebates for electric vehicles but doesn't yet quite know what they'll look like, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency told a federal appeals court it will reconsider the Biden administration's ban on the last type of asbestos used in the United States to determine whether it went “beyond what is necessary.

HALIFAX — After at least two Nova Scotia municipalities voted in favour of asking the provincial government to slow down on its uranium exploration plans, their offices received several-page-long letters from Premier Tim Houston saying the province n