Weatherhood B.C.

Study finds forests and wetlands protect 3.7 million people in 358 Canadian population centres.

TRENTON, N.J.

LONDON (AP) — Britain remained Monday on high alert after the second major storm of the season battered the country over the weekend, leaving at least two people dead and disrupting road and rail travel.

Some B.C. ski resorts opened to record visitor numbers and a major boost in room bookings. Seasonal forecasts show cold and wet conditions are primed to persist.

VICTORIA — British Columbia is making disaster financial assistance available to victims of floodwaters that gushed through several communities when an atmospheric river dumped hundreds of millimetres of rain on parts of the province last month.

KARO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers in Indonesia recovered 16 bodies under tons of mud and rocks or that were swept away in flash floods that hit mountainside villages on Sumatra Island, officials said Monday.

Tense negotiations over how much wealthy countries will pledge to their counterparts in the fight to limit global warming have overrun their Friday deadline, a holdup Canada's environment minister attributed in part to questionable leadership at the

VANCOUVER — A new storm system is bearing down on British Columbia and is expected to bring another blast of potentially damaging winds, as the province continues to clean up from this week's powerful bomb cyclone.

The bomb cyclone — a weather system triggered by a rapid drop in atmospheric pressure — brought winds as high as 170 km/h on Tuesday. Friday's storm isn't expected to be as intense.

HALIFAX — An investigation into how the Canadian Coast Guard responded to a Nova Scotia vessel in distress two years ago raises questions about why one fisherman died after a towing operation went awry.