Citizen scientists partner with the Ministry of Forests and VIU to understand how climate change is hitting Vancouver Island’s forests and plant species.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Hinton, Alta., to get a briefing on the status of the Jasper wildfire, as well as meet with the province's premier and evacuees who fled the blaze that destroyed a third of the town.
Connie Chapman with the province's water management branch says the pulse of water after the dam breached yesterday morning will make its way toward the Fraser River, and modelling shows it will reach the community of Hope sometime today.
The B.C. government says it's "extremely unsafe" to be near the banks of the Chilcotin and Fraser rivers both upstream and downstream from a massive landslide after water started flowing through the slide early Monday.
A new groundbreaking scientific study identifying "dark oxygen" production on the seafloor, has thrown the deep sea mining industry into chaos as countries negotiate its future.
Scientists are cautioning against a rush to pin the blame on wildfires alone — despite a climate-linked rise in both wildfires and fire-associated landslides in B.C.
The clean energy think tank The Pembina Institute says in a report released Friday that 53 wind and solar projects were abandoned after the United Conservative Party government paused approvals for seven months then failed to clarify new rules for those developments.
Officials have said the water collecting behind the slide south of the city of Williams Lake could reach a level where it will start flowing over the debris, or it will erode the material, setting off a release.
An expert on British Columbia's salmon populations says the massive landslide that blocked off part of Canada's largest sockeye salmon run has created an unprecedented situation potentially putting the already struggling fish at even more risk.
If global heating doesn't stop, 60 years from now Edmonton will be as hot and dry in the summer as Kansas is now, Regina will feel like a much warmer city in South Dakota, and Toronto will be as hot year-round as present-day northern Arkansas.
Industry hurdles like secure supply of hatchlings, a future-proof feed supply and regulatory challenges for new entries to the market, have limited the prospect of a thriving land-based farming industry.