Exploring for more oil, delineation of new fields, constructing new oil infrastructure and commissioning new projects are all activities that waste Canada's shrinking carbon budget.
The old-growth forests of B.C. are the cooling systems, air filters and oxygen supply for Vancouver Island and the mainland. So why are governments still allowing ancient trees to be felled?
A team of scientists in the U.S. and China decided to use an obscure weather measurement called equivalent potential temperature — or theta-e — that reflects “the moisture energy of the atmosphere.”