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Wildfire near Summerland, B.C., remains active as residents return
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (326+ words) Winnipeg 10° C, Clear SUMMERLAND – While most evacuation orders have come down for the Bald Range wildfire near Summerland, the BC Wildfire Service is reporting the blaze remains active. The BC Wildfire Service says in an update posted Tuesday that the…...
Kenya triples its power target, aiming to expand use of nuclear and geothermal energy
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (1246+ words) Winnipeg 11° C, Clear The plan calls for renewable power generating capacity of 5,500 megawatts, up from about 1,500 MW now. That would include 2,000 MW of nuclear power alongside 700 MW of hydropower and new geothermal projects. That will strengthen the country’s position as…...
Lala strengthens into a hurricane while moving west away from Hawaii
5+ hour, 9+ min ago (129+ words) Winnipeg 12° C, Clear The hurricane was about 335 miles (535 kilometers) south-southeast of Maro Reef, the hurricane center said. The storm was moving west-northwest at 125 mph (205 kph). The hurricane center called it the first major hurricane of 2026 in the Central Pacific. Forecasters…...
China recovers rocket stage on land for first time, after earlier recovery at sea
6+ hour, 3+ min ago (758+ words) Winnipeg 13° C, Clear Although this marks China’s first successful recovery on land, it is the second time the country has recovered a rocket stage, following a successful recovery on a sea platform in July. Chinese state news agency Xinhua said…...
Pulling from ancient cooling principles, the???swamp cooler??? remains important today
16+ hour, 37+ min ago (816+ words) Winnipeg 20° C, Windy It’s relatively simple: A fan pulls a stream of fresh hot air through vertical, porous pads saturated with water. It evaporates, cooling and humidifying the air and directing it indoors. By the 1930s, the gadgets changed entire swaths…...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, promising a more age-appropriate chatbot – Winnipeg Free Press
22+ hour, 35+ min ago (863+ words) Winnipeg 14° C, Cloudy Risks abound in widespread teen usage of AI chatbots Parents, educators and child development experts have been sounding alarms over children’s use of AI chatbots, which have been blamed for facilitating cheating on schoolwork and even suicide....
Opinion: A grand jet?? of climate-change denial
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (807+ words) Winnipeg 12° C, Cloudy The first hurricane to hit Hawaii in 34 years. The Mediterranean on fire from Spain to Greece. ‘Heat domes’ one after another for months on end in Europe and North America. Thousands of excess deaths. A record El…...
Lula calls oil near the Amazon River a passport to Brazil's future after Petrobras strikes new find
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (1306+ words) Winnipeg 12° C, Cloudy Petrobras, Brazil’s majority state-owned corporation, said on Friday that it had detected hydrocarbons during exploratory drilling about 180 kilometers (112 miles) off the coast of Amapa state. The country’s coastal regions near the mouth of the Amazon are known…...
Trial project lauded in the fight against pollution
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (725+ words) Winnipeg 12° C, Cloudy A city project aimed at reducing water pollution is being deemed a success, despite some challenges in adding it to an aging sewage treatment plant. The chemical additives increased the removal of phosphorous through the plant’s treatment…...
Appeal to halt rodenticide use in Winnipeg dismissed
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (163+ words) Winnipeg 20° C, Windy An appeal aimed at stopping the city’s use of rodenticides to kill ground squirrels in Winnipeg has been quashed. In April, a joint application was made under the Environmental Act to appeal a provincial permit issued to…...