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Western Canada faces 'extreme' heat wave, with soaring temperatures raising fire risk

A heat wave that's expected to push daytime temperatures 10 to 15 degrees above seasonal norms is raising the wildfire risk in Alberta and British Columbia, where crews are already battling early-season blazes.
B.C.’s Elephant Hill wildfire results in losses of $1B per year: Indigenous report

B.C.’s Elephant Hill wildfire results in losses of $1B per year: Indigenous report

VANCOUVER — An Indigenous-led report into a massive wildfire nearly six years ago that destroyed more than 100 homes and scorched a vast swath of British Columbia's Interior says the blaze resulted in up to $1 billion per year in ongoing nature and e
Research finds some Pacific salmon migration out of sync with food supply

Research finds some Pacific salmon migration out of sync with food supply

'The coastal ocean is changing in one way and Pacific salmon are changing in a myriad of other ways and those ways don't always align,' says researcher
Canada still not counting emissions from logging sector, says report

Canada still not counting emissions from logging sector, says report

Canada gives its logging industry credit for the carbon absorbed by trees planted after a wildfire, and in so doing, erases carbon pollution from one of its largest emitting sectors, the report says
Ottawa's IAA pause button slows environmental reviews: report

Ottawa's IAA pause button slows environmental reviews: report

'Progress is slow' in Impact Assessment Act process, says Canadian West Foundation
Vancouver's Metaspectral gets grant for plastic recycling tech

Vancouver's Metaspectral gets grant for plastic recycling tech

Company using hyperspectral imaging to distinguish different plastics
Head of Alberta Energy Regulator declines to say when province told of oilsands leak

Head of Alberta Energy Regulator declines to say when province told of oilsands leak

Committee looking into why governments and area First Nations weren't kept updated on seepage from a tailings pond at Imperial Oil's Kearl oilsands mine
B.C. group gets millions to decarbonize fashion, stop ancient forest harvesting

B.C. group gets millions to decarbonize fashion, stop ancient forest harvesting

Based out of Vancouver, B.C., Canopy received $60 million this week to wean global supply chains off ancient forest products and replace them with alternatives, like recycled clothing and straw.
B.C. backs 14 companies looking to reduce plastic waste

B.C. backs 14 companies looking to reduce plastic waste

The B.C. government announced over $8 million in funding to 14 companies looking to recycle plastic waste or prevent it from entering depots and landfills.
Boeing high on renewable aviation fuel potential

Boeing high on renewable aviation fuel potential

Aviation is responsible for 2.5 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions