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Manitoba wildfire impacts on First Nations prompt calls for environmental justice
Experts say Indigenous peoples often bear the brunt of climate change impacts, without being meaningfully involved in ...
Winnipeg Free Press6hOpinion
Wildfires: climate change cause and effect
This question is at the heart of humanity’s willingness to act on climate change. In the wake of record wildfire damage in ...
PhillyVoice15h
Pine Barrens fires highlight New Jersey's need to understand wildfire health risks
Health researchers are studying respiratory impacts as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense across the ...
Wildfire of note downgraded in B.C., remains burning out of control
A recent soaking of rain in northeastern British Columbia has helped to remove the one remaining fire out of the so-called ...
The Canadian Press on MSN1h
B.C. student created wildfire map during own evacuation from Manitoba fire zone
University of British Columbia Okanagan geography student Jenna Taylor went home last month to spend time with her family in ...
Meet the helpers spending days on their feet to serve First Nations wildfire evacuees
Thousands of First Nations people have had to leave their homes this year due to wildfires. Here's what it's like to be one — ...
Nopiming business owners hope province will help shoulder losses from summer season cut short by wildfires
Business owner in an eastern Manitoba provincial park are glad to be reopening following more than a month of ...
Northern Ontario wildfire evacuees get used to life – and the food – down south
About 1,200 residents of Sandy Lake and Deer Lake First Nations have been displaced in a cluster of hotels in the GTA ...
Residents who fled wildfire in central Newfoundland can return home
About 700 people who were forced to flee their homes in central Newfoundland because of a wildfire can now go home.
Vernon Morning Star14h
Night-fighting helicopters and drones coming to battle B.C. wildfires
As the BC Wildfire Service expands its night-time firefighting helicopter fleet, Transport Canada has also given another ...
More evacuation orders to lift in parts of Saskatchewan, Manitoba following wildfires
Residents were forced out a little more than one month ago by an out-of-control blaze that currently stands at 71 square ...
The Canadian Press on MSN16h
Last ‘wildfire of note’ downgraded in B.C. amid blast of damp weather
A recent soaking of rain in northeastern British Columbia has helped to remove the one remaining fire out of the so-called wildfire of note category, although the Summit Lake blaze is still labelled ...