The City of Montreal has lifted a preventive boil-water advisory for the Montréal-Nord borough.
However, before drinking the water again, the city says residents should turn on all cold water taps and let the water run for a few minutes.
The advisory was issued Wednesday evening. In a news release, the city said the advisory was necessary due to a water outage and a drop in pressure.
More than 80,000 residents were affected.
This extremely 'exciting' result is significant for a whole range of reasons, conservationists explain.
Just a 45-minute drive from a major Australian capital, something disturbing has occurred. Find out more.
Here's exactly what you should do if you stumble across this nasty weed.
The specimens had sat undescribed since they were collected in the 1980s. Find out more.
The behaviour is said to be happening 'every night' and is taking a heavy toll on precious wildlife, locals say. Now visitors are being warned.
Swimmers have been warned to stay out of the water after a bull shark was spotted in a popular river in Victoria’s east.
You'll see construction workers instead of sunbathers along some of the nation's most popular holiday spots. Find out more.
Millions of Australians are being urged to keep an eye out for changing weather conditions, as severe thunderstorms are likely to develop.
Experts say the multi-billion project would be a 'death sentence' for the Shompen people.
The purple-crowned fairy-wren is already hard to spot, but soon it could vanish entirely. Find out more.
The species is a bigger threat than cats and foxes, according to the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions.
A rescued mountain lion cub tried to show off in front of an older resident mountain lion at California’s Oakland Zoo, footage released on Monday, December 9, shows.Footage released by Oakland Zoo shows the Briar the cub spotting an older mountain lion, Silverado, through the fence and attempting an “attack” move on a giant spool, but missing.Briar was brought to the zoo after he was found walking alone down a road in El Dorado County in early August, the zoo said. Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful
Technology companies are looking at various ways to source electricity for energy-intensive data centers. Google on Dec. 10 unveiled a plan to join with several partners in supporting power generation, […]
Hundreds of feral dogs roam the wasteland of the nuclear disaster descendants of pets that were abandoned amid the 1986 blast and survived a cull from Soviet soldiers
A new study estimates there have been more than 9,000 Australian invertebrate extinctions since 1788. Only one has been officially listed.
Multiple flood warnings are issued by the Environment Agency as river levels continue to rise.
The shift is driven largely by a decline in production from coal, gas and oil, as well as growing wind, solar and biomass power
Schools shut, night curfew imposed and nearly 87,000 people told to leave their homes
More than 75 percent of the globe became permanently drier over the past three decades, according to a report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The report, published Monday, found that about 77.6 percent of the globe became drier from 1990 to 2020, more than it did over the preceding three decades.…
A slow-moving and strengthening storm system fueled by an atmospheric river will span the entire East Coast on Wednesday and bare down on the Northeast with the worst of its wind and rain.
