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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's direction to her new environment minister lacks specifics on climate change and does more to protect industry interests than ecosystems, critics say.

MONTREAL — A town near Quebec City declared a state of local emergency and other communities ordered preventive evacuations on Tuesday as torrential rain caused rivers across southern Quebec to burst free of their banks.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a contentious natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia, this time doing so even after Congress ordered the project's approval.

OTTAWA — Four Canadian humanitarian aid groups are to use millions of dollars in new funding from the federal government to deploy response teams more quickly as climate change increases the demand on their services.

TULITA, N.W.T. — The Northwest Territories government says several cabins near Tulita have likely been destroyed by a wildfire burning in the area.

A team of geologists has concluded, after a studying sites around the globe, that a tiny, deep lake in southern Ontario should mark the birth of the modern world.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don't need to install septic systems to dispose of their “gray water,” the state Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a long-running religious freedom case that went all the

Schools in New Delhi were forced to close Monday after heavy monsoon rains battered the Indian capital , with landslides and flash floods killing at least 15 people over the last three days.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio will fund scholarships and a climate education program at the UCLA-based elementary school where he was once himself a scholarship student, the actor and the college said Tuesday.