As Canadian firefighters boarded flights on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, to battle blazes in Australia, they noted they will likely have to employ some different tactics than they do to fight local fires.
The increasing frequency of wildfires in Canada's boreal forest may be permanently changing one of the largest intact ecosystems left on Earth, research suggests.
Nearly 100 Canadian fire experts have been sent to Australia to help battle one of the worst wildfire seasons the country has ever seen, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told his Australian counterpart on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, the country is ready to do more.
Trees are charcoal black on one side and bone white on the other, evidence of the path a wildfire took as it tore into Waterton Lakes National Park in southwestern Alberta nearly two years ago.
Canada is forging ahead with trade talks with the South American Mercosur trading bloc, hoping to push Brazil to better protect the critical Amazon rainforest, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, August 27, 2019.
The federal government is spending $15 million and offering up the use of Canadian water bombers to help fight the wildfires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, August 26, 2019, as he wrapped up several days of meetings with G7 world leaders in France.
