Environment News

KAWARTHA LAKES, ONT. — The city of Kawartha Lakes in Ontario says fire crews are continuing to battle what is described as a significant forest fire in the Burnt River area.

PARIS (AP) — A heat wave gripping parts of Europe sent temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (109.

LONDON (AP) — Firefighters in Scotland overnight and into Monday battled a large brush fire that broke out on a landmark hill overlooking the city of Edinburgh , with burning gorse bushes sending plumes billowing into the sky.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Researchers at a Michigan State University facility dedicated to protecting honey bees are enlisting a four-legged ally to sniff out danger to the prized pollinators.

TOKYO (AP) — Downpours on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu caused flooding and mudslides on Monday, injuring a number of people and disrupting travel during a Buddhist holiday week.

It was six months ago that Selin Celikoyar bought her last tampon and switched to a reusable menstrual disc. "I had already been wary of tampons from an environmental perspective and also from a biological perspective.

GENEVA (AP) — As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution , an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A short drive from the Mediterranean coast, mid-altitude mountain resorts near Sarajevo — traditionally dependent on snow sports — are slowly but steadily pivoting to attract summertime tourists.

GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) — A massive mudslide early Monday killed seven volunteers as they repaired a drainage channel damaged by flash floods in northern Pakistan , officials said, leaving three others injured.

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Tropical Storm Henriette rapidly strengthened into a hurricane Sunday in the central Pacific Ocean with further strengthening expected, but it poses no threat to land, the National Hurricane Center said.