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"...HALIFAX An endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing gear has been spotted in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northeast of New Brunswick's Acadian Peninsula..."
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"...Public health officials in Huron County are hoping to identify a dog and its owner..."
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"...As a pair of wildfires burn near Flin Flon and The Pas, a number of Manitobans are being told to evacuate their homes..."
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"...According to a news release from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), the whale was seen on Friday during routine aerial surveillance of the area. Its the first sighting of a North Atlantic right whale in Canadian waters for the 2024 season..."
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"...ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) Labor unions in Nigeria staged nationwide protests on Monday over recent increases in electricity prices following the removal of subsidies by the West African nations government..."
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"..."Calgarians are keen to keep recyclable materials out of the garbage, which is valuable in terms of extending our landfill space for future use. "..."
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"...Local landowners are against the idea, saying it would destroy two critical wetlands, which would be filled in to build one of the tracks..."
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"...LONDON (AP) British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned of a dangerous future for the U. K. in a pitch to voters Monday as he fights to hang on to power ahead of a future national election that could see Conservatives ousted after 14 years..."
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"...“Air quality can vary quite a bit into the wildfire season, a little bit of smoke can easily put the air quality into a poor value,” he explained. “So, it's tough to say what a normal value would be. ”..."
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"...The thick wildfire smoke that blew in from the northwest over the weekend has moved out of the Edmonton area and modelling indicates "cleaner" air for Monday/Tuesday in the Edmonton area and all of central and southern Alberta..."
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"...Environment Canadas Air Quality Health Index monitors the level of air pollution. At 9 a. m..."
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"...Marc Bishai, a lawyer with the group that is suing Quebec — the Centre québécois du droit de l'environnement, or CQDE — said the widespread opposition is explained by "the way the government allowed the project to go ahead without respecting the laws that we as a society put in place. "His group sought a court injunction to protect wetlands and stop clear-cutting on the 171-hectare site, which straddles two communities about 30 kilometres east of Montreal. It lost that application but continues its legal fight to invalidate the environment minister's approval of preparatory work at the site..."
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"...A fire behaviour specialist with the B. C. Wildfire Service says an intense wildfire could hit Fort Nelson this morning, based on forecasts that have been calling for strong winds that have been fuelling the out-of-control blaze to continue throughout the day..."
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"...As the wildfire season gets underway, here's where smoke may be an issue..."
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"...The volcanic earthquakes are still intense so there is a potential for a future eruption, Hendra Gunawan, chief of the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation said..."
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"...Ben Boghean said in a video posted to social media Sunday night that the extreme fire behaviour, made worse by years of drought and a below-normal snowpack this past winter, could end up threatening the crews that have been fighting the Parker Lake wildfire..."
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"...This month, Brazil has seen some of its highest recorded temperatures..."
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"...About 150 old brine wells in the area are being plugged..."
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"...With a spring fire season that has fired up early and hot in Western Canada, there is no time like today to start working on a fire prevention plan..."
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"...However, their ability to store and sequester carbon is uncertain due to combined and intermingling effects of anthropogenic activities and climate change, which impact wildfire regimes and vegetation dynamics..."
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"...Predicting the impact of wildfires on ecosystem services and habitat values requires quantifying rates of post-fire tree mortality and topkill..."
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"...Today wildfire is an important disturbance in many continental ecosystems, and it is assumed that with ongoing climate changes the frequencies and impacts of wildfires will increase in many regions..."
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"...Increasingly frequent large wildfires in the western US raise questions about the effects of climate and site-level factors on forest ecosystem resilience..."
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"...The dataset is released in open access and is deemed to be useful for future wildfire evacuation modelling calibration and validation efforts..."
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"...Usually, environmental hazards, such as wildfires, are part of the regular environmental dynamic and not considered a threat to biodiversity..."
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"...In this paper, we convert excess mortality estimates due to increases in extreme weather from climate change (heat waves, cold waves, droughts, wildfires, river and coastal floods, and windstorms) into potential reductions in life expectancy at birth in thirty-one European countries..."
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