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May 25th 2023

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‘Birders, not blockaders’ ask B.C. to protect old-growth in Fairy Creek to save marbled murrelets Birders and biologists are banding together to urge the B.C. government to protect ancient forests on southwestern Vancouver Island in a bid to save threatened marbled murrelet nesting sites. Rochelle Baker News, Island Insider \| May 25th 2023

Clean air and bold climate action is health care Climate-driven illness is increasing the strain on our overburdened health-care system and it is a direct threat to life. Karina Pillay, Stephen Wilton Opinion \| May 25th 2023

Scientists find plastic-munching microbes — that don’t mind the cold Researchers sampled 19 strains of bacteria and 15 of fungi growing on free-lying or intentionally buried plastic kept in the ground for one year in Greenland, Svalbard and Switzerland in a potential breakthrough for recycling. Helena Horton News \| May 25th 2023

Feds face court challenge over Metro Vancouver port expansion that will endanger killer whales Environmental groups levelled a legal challenge against the federal government’s recent decision to greenlight a massive Metro Vancouver port expansion project in Delta, B.C. Natasha Bulowski News \| May 25th 2023

Alberta needs a government that plays fair with people of all generations There's not much hope for Alberta to fix its broken generational system this election, write Paul Kershaw and Andrea Long of Generation Squeeze, but the next government could start by naming a minister responsible for intergenerational fairness. Paul Kershaw, Andrea Long Opinion, Politics \| May 25th 2023

Wildfires have consumed more than 10,000 squares kilometres of Alberta Christie Tucker of Alberta Wildfire says the province has never seen this much wildfire activity in recorded history. The Canadian Press News \| May 24th 2023

More than half of N.W.T. wildfires so far this season caused by humans: officials Nine fires are actively burning in the N.W.T., including an out-of-control wildfire about 32 square kilometres in size on the K'atl'odeeche First Nation that is believed to have been human-caused. The Canadian Press News \| May 24th 2023

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