(NB-Puffin-Concerns)
New Brunswick researchers say they are concerned about the effect of extreme heat waves on Atlantic puffins.
University of New Brunswick marine biology professor Heather Major says marine heat waves are delaying Atlantic puffin breeding habits by two weeks.
Other researchers say with water temperatures warming, some birds may tire themselves out more looking for food as fish stay further under the surface.
Researchers say Atlantic puffins are impacted due to their specific dietary needs. (CBC News)Â
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(NB-Ultralight-Crash)
The pilot of an ultralight plane died after the aircraft crashed in a cornfield about 25 kilometres northwest of Fredericton.
Ken Hodgson, fire chief of Keswick Valley Fire Department, says his team received a call at 11:33 a.m. yesterday about a crash in Burtts Corner, in New Brunswick, along Route 104.
Hodgson says there were no other casualties.
In a news release, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it deployed a team of investigators to an “aircraft accident near Fredericton” but gave no other details. (The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Fatal-Collision)
A 15-year-old driver of an all-terrain vehicle has died after a collision on a Moncton, New Brunswick, highway.
The R-C-M-P say they responded to a report of a crash between a parked vehicle and an all-terrain-vehicle on Highway 2 on Thursday afternoon.
Police say they believe the 15-year-old boy was driving on the shoulder of the highway when he collided with the parked vehicle.
The teenager, who was the sole occupant of the all-terrain-vehicle was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and died the following day. (The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Missing-Vessel)
There is a powerful word being repeated in the joyful Newfoundland community of New-Wes-Valley.
“Miracle.”
Over and over, residents out walking or chatting to one another are saying the fact seven fishermen from the area had somehow survived roughly 48 hours in a life-raft was an amazing feat.
The Elite Navigator caught fire Wednesday, forcing the crew to abandon the ship and wait for rescue on the life-raft.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Flooding-Deaths-Anniversary)
The mother of a boy who died a year ago in a Nova Scotia flood says the Progressive Conservative government needs to pick up the pace in reforming its preparations for climate disasters.
Tera Sisco’s six-year-old son Colton Sisco died after the vehicle he was in overturned during the torrential thunderstorms of July 22nd, 2023.
She says she’s still struggling each day with grief, but also is advocating for an emergency alert system that will work better and staff who are trained to use it.
John Lohr — the minister responsible for the Emergency Measures Organization — says reforms are underway, including a plan to train and encourage more firefighters and police to issue emergency alerts as disasters unfold.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Multiple-Fatalities)
Three people are dead and three injured after a head-on collision in western Cape Breton involving a pickup truck and a Honda Civic.
R-C-M-P say the collision occurred early Saturday morning on Highway 19 near the community of Mabou.
The two youths in the Honda Civic, both residents of Inverness County, died in the crash, and a passenger in the truck, a 71-year-old man from Utah, was transported by paramedics — but died in hospital as a result of his injuries.
The other three occupants in the Ford F-150, also from Utah, suffered serious injuries and were transported to hospital for treatment.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Fatality)
The Mounties are investigating a fatal crash that occurred on Highway 2-17 in Nova Scotia’s Digby County.
Police say the crash occurred Saturday in the small hours of the morning in the Centreville area.
Investigators say a Honda Civic was travelling westbound on Highway 2-1-7 when it left the roadway and entered the ditch.
The driver and sole occupant of the car was pronounced deceased at the scene.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Open-Fire-Ban)
An open fire ban has been lifted on the island of Newfoundland.
However, the ban prohibiting setting of fires on forest land or within 300 metres of forest land remains in effect for Labrador until further notice.
In areas that are not on forest land or within 300 metres of forest land, fires are only permitted if set in a wood burning unit that completely contains the fire.
On the island of Newfoundland, a Permit to Burn is required to burn brush and other materials during forest fire season.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Oyster-Quarantine)
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says some P.E.I. oyster growing sites are under quarantine following the discovery of a parasite.
The presence of multinuclear sphere X, or M-S-X, in Bedeque Bay was confirmed after harvesters noticed in June that some of the oysters were dead or dying.
Last week the federal agency said “several additional sites have been placed under quarantine.”
An update posted to the P.E.I. Aquaculture Alliance’s website said that samples from three of 10 sites the C-F-I-A tested were positive for M-S-X.
(CBC PEI)
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