Atmospheric river storm will bring heavy rain to southern B.C., Environment Canada says
Environment Canada says a heavy rain storm it's calling an atmospheric river is forecast to hit southern British Columbia on Monday.
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Scientists point to record heat, torrential floods as cost of climate inaction
A record-hot June, followed by a disaster-packed July, has climate scientists “shocked” by just how extreme the extreme weather has been, including some ocean waters feeling like “a hot tub.”
Warming causes more extreme rain, not snow, over mountains. And that’s a problem
A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as long-term water shortages, a new study found.
Logging and forest loss may have awakened ancient B.C. landslides
A series of ancient landslides have been "reawakened" in British Columbia's Cariboo region, costing hundreds of millions in federal disaster assistance funds and prompting warnings thatlogging is connected to the problem.
How do you stop a wall of mud?
Tackling the threat of landslides in soaked California. They are no quick fixes. And they don't come cheap.
Large rockfall on Snowpatch Spire will "change the Bugaboos forever'
Mountain guide James Madden was flying over Snowpatch Spire in Bugaboo Provincial Park last week surveying weather conditions when he saw dust clouds.
Microphones dropped off Greenland to record melting icebergs
Artist Siobhán McDonald will turn the recordings into an acoustic installation exploring humanity’s impact on the ocean.
‘Everything that’s in there is dead’
Landslides of wildfire ash have poisoned tens of thousands of fish in the already-imperilled Klamath Basin.
Ottawa awards $870 million to B.C. for flood, landslide recovery
The federal government is providing $870 million to support recovery efforts after destructive flooding in British Columbia last November, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair announced on Monday, July 18, 2022.
Environment Canada scientists link B.C. floods to human-caused climate change
Human-induced climate change “contributed substantially” to the atmospheric river and ensuing floods that devastated B.C. last year, a new study by Environment Canada scientists confirms, warning Canadians to brace for more of the same.
Agriculture recovery fund will help B.C. farmers with flood cleanup
The widespread flooding and landslides followed "destructive, climatechange-related" wildfires, drought and heat waves last summer.
Freeland’s fall economic statement highlights
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland released a fall economic statement today, Dec. 14, 2021, that outlined a better-than-expected economic rebound, but also billions more in spending, including on the response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
B.C. gas rationing ends Tuesday
The British Columbia government is lifting a restriction on gasoline for the general public that was put in place after flooding and landslides cut off supply.
Flood cleanup risky for workers, B.C. safety agency warns
Restoration companies and contractors in British Columbia that are about to help launch a massive flood cleanup and repair effort must be aware of the risks and hazards their work could pose to employees, says the province's worker protection agency.