Sarah Boon, Co-founder and Management Team; Environment and Earth Sciences co-editor By now most of us have seen the images and heard the stories: a city of over 88,000 people forced to evacuate entirely in the face of walls of flame and rising pillars of smoke. The Fort McMurray wildfire has left an entire city […]
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Climate change complexities
by Alex Bond & Kasra Hassani Biology & Life Sciences subject editors Thousands of wildfires are raging across Canada’s boreal forest, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents and burning (as of 15 July 2015) more than 3 million ha, or 2.5 times the 10-year average for this time of year. According to […]
Water problems in water-rich Canada
Sarah Boon, Environment & Earth Sciences co-editor Western Canada has been experiencing unprecedented warm and dry conditions this year, leading to drought conditions across the region. This has resulted in farming woes, increases in both the number of wildfires and the area burned by those fires (see plot below), water restrictions across western municipalities, and […]
Thinking about water
by Dan Kraus Guest post from the Nature Conservancy of Canada Here in Canada, it’s a luxury to not think about water. Most of us watch it come out of the tap and go down the drain without considering its source or destination. Many people in the world don’t have taps or drains; over 1.2 […]