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  Persistent heat wave in the U.S. expected to shatter new records as it bakes West and swelters in East

  A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. will persist, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that will soar into the 100s and holding the East in its hot and humid grip throughout the week, forecasters said Sunday.

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  This Italian vacation hotspot is turning tourists away as it runs out of water

  Set atop a hill on the Italian island of Sicily, Agrigento is a heritage tourist’s paradise. But the aqueduct, and others built in modern times, are running so dry that small hotels and guesthouses in the city and nearby coast are being forced to turn tourists away.

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  B.C. heat wave may increase wildfire activity but reduce lightning starts: BCWS

  As sweltering heat sets in over much of British Columbia, the province's wildfire authority is warning that dry conditions will increase the potential for wildfire activity.

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  More records expected to shatter as long-running blanket of heat threatens 130 million in U.S.

  Roughly 130 million people were under threat Saturday and into next week from a long-running heat wave that already has broken records with dangerously high temperatures — and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, forecasters said.

• Holdover fire near Fort Nelson, B.C., no longer 'being held,' now 'out of control' again

  A holdover wildfire burning in B.C.'s northeast corner is once again considered "out of control," after a spate of hot, dry weather in the region.

• Texas coast braces for hit by Beryl, which is expected to regain hurricane strength

  Texas officials urged coastal residents to brace for a looming hit by Beryl, which was a tropical storm on Saturday but was expected to regain hurricane strength as it moves across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

• International environmental watchdog wants probe into shipping pollution enforcement

  Investigators with an international environmental watchdog have recommended a probe into whether Canada is violating its own laws by not stopping toxic wastewater from being dumped into the ocean along its Pacific coast.

• Beryl moves over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as Texas officials urge coastal residents to prepare

  Beryl moved over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Friday after battering the resort town of Tulum and started to emerge into the Gulf of Mexico, prompting Texas officials to urge coastal residents to prepare as the storm headed their way.

• How 'ropeless' gear could save North Atlantic right whales

  An environmental agency is urging Fisheries and Oceans Canada to release its whale safety gear strategy in the wake of another North Atlantic right whale getting entangled in the Gulf of St. Lawrence – the second such occurrence in the area so far this year.

• P.E.I. First Nations, Ottawa establish national park reserve on sacred Mi'kmaq land

  The government of Canada and Prince Edward Island's Mi'kmaq First Nations announced an agreement on Thursday to turn a pristine chain of islands with sacred cultural significance into a national park reserve.

• More carbon capture projects to be green-lit soon: Natural Resources Minister

  Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says he expects between 20 and 25 commercial-scale carbon capture and storage projects to break ground in Canada within the next decade.

• Coral bleachings devastate Bali reefs as sea temperatures rise

  Indonesian conservationist Nyoman Sugiarto has been working for 16 years to preserve coral on the reefs of Bali, but the frequency of mass coral bleachings he says is now devastating.