Catastrophe & Restoration

Cooler temperatures are helping fire fighters battle wildfires raging through Alberta as the blaze retreats from the countrys main oil-sands facilities around Fort McMurray.

Drones will soon be boosting crop yields, verifying insurance claims, and assisting in future Hollywood blockbusters in a business thats due to boom by more than 6,000% by the end of the decade.

An El Nio in the Pacific disrupted weather patterns to bring northern Alberta a dry fall and very little snow throughout the winter.

The 2015 fire season set a new record for the number of acres burned in the United States, while more and more people live in areas that are prone to wildfires, resulting in a recipe for disaster.

The wildfires spreading around Canadas oil-sands hub of Fort McMurray may become the costliest catastrophe in the countrys history with losses potentially reaching $7.3 billion.

More than 80,000 people have been forced to flee their homes as wildfires tore through a northern Alberta community, reducing entire neighborhoods to ash.