With the drive for renewables leading to land-use conflicts, building highly efficient utility-scale solar farms on ever-smaller tracts of land has become a top priority. New approaches range from installing PV arrays that take up less space to growing crops between rows of panels.
Activists said the dredging plan would result in environmental and economic catastrophe, drying up the country's White Nile river and the Sudd wetlands, which farmers and local wildlife rely on.
Spraying aerosols and sucking carbon out of the air would bring down temperatures, yes. But the unintended consequences of geoengineering could be enormous.
A year after the heat dome event that killed billions of plants and animals in British Columbia, scientists say ecosystems are recovering, but could be transformed forever if such events become more frequent.
By helping Surrey, B.C.'s 600,000 residents co-exist with salmon, she is restoring and building resilience in ecosystems across the second-most populous municipality in the province.
As B.C. gears up to pour millions into infrastructure after recovering from November's atmospheric river, an opportunity awaits to make flood systems more fish-friendly.
Petroleum slicks, human and animal waste, deceased animals and garbage. All this and more have been spotted floating in the water by volunteers working to salvage B.C. homes and communities flooded by the recent catastrophic storm.