British Columbia

Thousands of miles from Dr Barney Graham’s lab in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, a frightening new coronavirus had jumped from camels to humans in the Middl(...)

The British Columbia (BC) government said it is limiting the amount of fuel people can purchase at forecourts and restricting non-essential travel as (...)

Canada was still trying to reach 18,000 people stranded on Thursday after floods and mudslides destroyed roads, houses and bridges in what could be th(...)

Irish Times readers around the world, from Cambodia to New Zealand, tell us how the holiday season is looking for them ‘It’s been a long an(...)

Record atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and associated accumulated heat “have propelled the planet into uncharted territory, with far-reachin(...)

Jim Ryan, who is from Blackrock in Co Dublin, moved to Canada in 1980. For most of that time he has lived in the small British Columbia town(...)

Between severe flooding in Belgium and Germany and extensive wildfires in the western US and Canada, the last six weeks have been a dramatic reminder (...)

We are experiencing a summer of weather extremes encapsulating heatwaves, wild fires and intense rainfall followed by flash floods. This has come in(...)

Firefighters struggled to contain a fast-moving northern California wildfire under blazing temperatures as another heatwave blanketed the west of the (...)

A heatwave is forecast for the end of next week with potential highs of 27 degrees next weekend. High pressure will build across the week and the te(...)