drought

With four spectacularly destructive wildfire seasons in the last seven years, B.C. has become a global wildfire hot spot.

B.C.'s snowpack is 40 per cent below normal spurring action by watershed groups to buffer the rising risk of another extensive summer drought.

Watershed experts worried that critically low snowpacks signal more severe droughts this summer want the province to act early to deal with water shortages before they reach crisis levels.

There are currently 51 water shortage advisories in the province. River basins from north to south face critical water shortages from low precipitation.

Two hydro-rich provinces are being forced to import power from other jurisdictions due to severe drought in Western Canada.

In Lethbridge County, dry and windy conditions have been known to stir up dust clouds, obscuring the vision of drivers on local roads and filling irrigation canals to the brim with dirt.

Canal administrators now estimate that dipping water levels could cost them between $500 million and $700 million in 2024, compared to previous estimates of $200 million.

Rising global temperatures – 2023 is expected to be widely confirmed as the hottest year ever recorded – are fueling droughts and other extreme weather that affect food yields, including that of sugar.

Norm Allard knows he may never see the full impacts of his efforts to restore wetlands and floodplains in southeastern British Columbia, but he takes a "generational view" of the work that exemplifies a key part of climate resiliency.

The last 12 months were the hottest Earth has ever recorded, according to a new report by Climate Central, a nonprofit science research group.

We Wai Kai's First Nation's Guardians are partnering with other local groups to map and monitor wetlands and streams on Quadra Island, B.C., to protect water for humans and the environment as the climate crisis continues to fuel droughts.

Victoria Youmans says she hasn't seen Arrow Lakes Reservoir looking so low in more than 20 years.

Floods and storms accounted for 95 per cent of recorded child displacement between 2016 and 2021, according to the first-of-its-kind analysis by UNICEF and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The rest — more than two million children — were displaced by wildfires and drought.

Kathleen Maxwell has lived in Phoenix for more than 20 years, but this summer was the first time she felt fear, as daily high temperatures soared to 110 degrees or hotter and kept it up for a record-shattering 31 consecutive days.

In just one month, seven times more acres burned than in an average year.