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Scorching heat blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and another in Louisiana blanketed more of the Southeast on Wednesday, stretching government warnings of dangerous, triple-digit temperatures eastward into Mississippi and Tennessee.

DETROIT (AP) — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — More than 1,100 people remain evacuated from their homes Wednesday as Arizona fire officials determine if a containment line will hold up in windy conditions.

MONTREAL — Wildfires in northern Quebec continue to rage despite recent rainfall, and the coming days will bring a risk of lightning, which could spark more fires if strikes hit dry ground, Environment and Climate Change Canada says.

An area of dry, rolling hills in British Columbia's Interior known for its varieties of grasses and home to many of the province's at-risk species is being protected as part of a $54 million conservation project.

FREDERICTON — The federal government is ready to pay up to $200 million to protect a vital land corridor linking Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from climate change-related flooding, a federal minster has confirmed.

Canadian wildfires triggered dangerous plumes of smoke and air pollution in parts of the country Wednesday, forcing many people to avoid the outdoors as poor air quality warnings cancelled some mail deliveries and curbed school recesses and sports tr

A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as long-term water shortages, a new study found.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Adrian became the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific hurricane season Wednesday off Mexico’s western Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Adrian had sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph).

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country welcomed more than 145,000 immigrants during the first three months of the year. That's the highest number for a single quarter on record, since comparable data became available in 1972.