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Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report finds

The results from a recent Leger poll suggest more than one in three Canadians have been touched directly by extreme weather such as forest fires, heat waves, floods or tornadoes.

Around 90 per cent of Canadians who say they intend to vote Liberal or NDP tell pollsters that "climate change is a fact and is mostly caused by human activities," according to a survey by the Angus Reid Institute conducted in March. Yet only one-third of federal Conservative voters accept this foundational climate fact.

The federal government committed to planting two billion trees across the country to restore natural habitats and fight climate change, and now Quebec wants to harvest some of them.

A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government has pleaded guilty to starting a series of fires himself that forced hundreds of people from their homes.

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Increasing investment in wildfire prevention strategies is crucial to minimize damages.

Canada's current wildfire season is devastating evidence of the effects of climate change, scientists say, but for some conspiracy theorists, the thousands of square kilometres of burnt ground isn't enough to convince them.

Wildfire smoke hanging over communities across Canada in recent months has highlighted the need for better ventilation in buildings used by the public, experts say, urging the establishment of strong indoor air quality standards.

Intact Financial Corp. estimates its catastrophe losses for the second quarter were around $421 million on a pre-tax basis.

The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says 76,129 square kilometres of forest and other land have burned since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometres, according to the National Forestry Database.

As wildfires from coast to coast scorch large swaths of forest, sometimes changing it irreversibly, experts have zeroed in on an often overlooked casualty of the blazes: wildlife.

We are not at a new normal — wildfires will continue to worsen. 

What to do about the wildfire smoke, my mother in New York City asks. A fan? An air filter? She knows I’ve been through it already. She knows I know. Publisher Linda Solomon Wood writes about the wildfire smoke blanketing the east.

Nova Scotia is dealing with not seen before rates of forest fires. Governments at all levels need to realize these are not isolated incidents, but warning signs of the larger climate emergency at hand.