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Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’

With hundreds of wildfires burning out of control, Canada’s 2025 fire season is already the second-worst on record, as scientists report climate change is prolonging and exacerbating the burning, leading to more destruction, evacuations and smoke-filled skies.

More than 470 fires across the country are currently classified as “out of control”, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).

7,318,421 hectares of land in Canada have burned due to wildfires this year – close to 78% more than the five-year average of 4,114,516 hectares, according to the CIFFC’s latest data.

It used to be an ice age was the new normal.

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Canada’s wildfires may be impossible to extinguish?

The Albany Times Union headline read:

 Not so easy: Dousing the Canadian wildfires may not be possible.

It may not be possible to put out the Canadian wildfires?! Humans learned how to fly. Americans and Canadians have won two world wars.

Mankind has been to the moon and sent unmanned craft around the solar system — and beyond.

And Canada can’t put out a fire?

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3 miners trapped in northern B.C. mine, premier says

B.C. Premier David Eby has confirmed three miners are trapped underground in a mine in northern B.C.

The miners work at the Red Chris mine on Talhtan Nation territory near Dease Lake, B.C., about 420 kilometres west of Fort Nelson, B.C.

Two of the miners are from B.C. and one is from Ontario, the premier said at a news conference at the First Ministers meeting in Huntsville, Ont., Wednesday morning.

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Days after Texas floods, at least 161 people are still missing in one county

At least 161 people are still missing in a single Texas county four days after deadly and devastating flash floods hit parts of the state, Governor Greg Abbott said, as hope fades for survivors to be found.

The missing in the hard-hit Kerr County include five campers and a counsellor from Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls summer camp located on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

At least 111 people have died in the disaster, according to the latest county-by-county tolls published by US media. More than 90 were in the Kerrville area.

Meanwhile in New Mexico

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Flash Flood New Mexico

h/t XC

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Texas floods death toll climbs to more than 100

The death toll from flash floods that struck central Texas on Friday has now climbed to more than 100 people and an unknown number of others are missing.

Search and rescue teams are wading through mud-piled riverbanks as more rain and thunderstorms threaten the region, but hope was fading of finding any more survivors four days after the catastrophe.

Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls’ summer camp, confirmed at least 27 girls and staff were among the dead. Ten girls and a camp counsellor are still missing.

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Camp Mystic death total rises to 27 after devastating Texas floods: ‘Our hearts are broken’

Camp Mystic announced a heartbreaking update Monday, confirming that 27 campers and counselors have now been confirmed dead in the devastating flash floods in Texas.

“Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly,” the camp posted on its website.

Camp officials said they’ve been in contact with local and state authorities “who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls.”

CNN reporter Pamela Brown, who attended Camp Mystic as a kid, ‘overwhelmed with emotion’ as she returns to cover deadly Texas floods

The Texas Flash Floods

As I write this, the death toll in the Texas flash floods now exceeds 70, with 12 people still missing, including 11 girls and one camp counselor. It is a heartbreaking and horrific tragedy.

Many have been quick to politicize the tragedy in an effort to support whatever agenda that they were promoting before the disaster — climate change, DOGE budget cuts, operations of the National Weather Service, the Biden Administration. The one political implication of the disaster that I’m ready to call for is to reassert the importance of establishing a U.S. Disaster Review Board, a case made here at THB by Mike Smith last March.

Today, I share some data and context on the event for those wanting to go beyond seeking to use tragic deaths in hopes of scoring online partisan points. Shameful.

h/t PA Cat

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Death toll in catastrophic Texas flooding rises to 51, including 15 children and 28 adults, officials say

The death toll in the devastating Guadalupe River flash flood in Texas has risen to 51 — including 28 adults and 15 children in Kerr County, officials said in a grim Saturday night update.

At least five of the dead — Renee Smajstrla, 8; Sarah Marsh, 8; Janie Hunt, 9; and Lila Bonner, 9, and Eloise Peck, 8 — were attending Camp Mystic, a Christian summer retreat for girls where 22 other campers were still unaccounted for.

Family members took to social media to post the heartbreaking news.

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Texas floods kill 24 people and leave many missing from girls’ summer camp

A major search and rescue operation is continuing through the night in Texas after flash floods killed at least 24 people and left many girls missing from a Christian summer camp.

There was little warning as the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet (7.9m) in less than an hour and flooding that followed swept away mobile homes, vehicles and holiday cabins where people were spending the 4 July weekend.

Rescue crews are still searching for up to 25 children who were among the 750 girls attending the Camp Mystic just outside the town of Kerrville 104km (64.0 miles) north-west of San Antonio.

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At least 13 dead as nearly 2 dozen girls at Christian summer camp missing after ‘catastrophic’ Texas floods

Nearly two dozen girls at a Christian summer camp are missing — and potentially dead — after their cabins were apparently washed away by “catastrophic” and fatal flooding in Texas that has left at least 13 people dead, officials announced Friday.

Around 20 children are unaccounted for at Camp Mystic alongside the Guadalupe River in Hunt, a suburb of San Antonio in Kerr County, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said at a news conference.

“That does not mean they’ve been lost. They could be in a tree. They could be out of communication. We’re praying for all those missing to be found alive,” Patrick said.

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Orcas bring food gifts to humans in puzzling acts of kindness

Come closer … I want to be friends

Dozens of cases of wild orcas bringing fish and birds to humans have been documented. Are they trying to make friends or do they hope to manipulate us?

Humans have long considered themselves nature’s great benefactors. We feed ducks in the park, toss scraps to alley cats and leave out bowls of milk for the neighbourhood hedgehog. We give, they take.

That, at least, is how the story usually goes. But could one of the world’s most intelligent predators be turning the tables?

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Inside the Race to Save a Family Farm From Canada’s Wildfires

As Canada endures another heavy wildfire season, a group of resourceful farmers in British Columbia became an ad hoc fire brigade to help a neighbor.

Smoke was darkening the skies, and flames from an out-of-control wildfire ripping through this remote stretch of western Canada were creeping ominously close to the farm that has been in Jake van Angeren’s family for 70 years.

Official evacuation alerts had sounded in Goodlow, an agricultural community near Alberta in northeastern British Columbia, setting off a chain reaction among families who had packed their bags ready to be ordered to leave as wildfires this month swallowed up swaths of land.

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Hiker killed by falling rocks in Canada’s Banff National Park, 3 others injured

Falling rocks struck people on a hiking trail in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, killing one and injuring three others Thursday.

Rescuers had rushed to the park in the afternoon after receiving reports that a group of hikers had been struck by the rockslide. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Parks Canada later confirmed one died and three were injured near Bow Glacier Falls.

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