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Two new studies suggest that pathogens from fish farms raise risks for B.C.'s plummeting wild salmon stocks.

Almost 50 per cent of the world's shared fish stocks will shift their habitat ranges and migration routes due to climate change, posing a challenge for international co-operation, a new study says.

A new campaign urges the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University to use their money divested from fossil fuel companies to back projects with social and environmental benefits to local communities.

A new study appears to debunk the prevailing hypothesis that endangered southern resident killer whales are in decline due to plummeting chinook salmon stocks in the Salish Sea during the summer months.

Outer coast killer whales, a little-known type of orca, have a vocal dialect and culture distinct from their West Coast cousins in B.C. and specialize in hunting big game, such as gray whale calves, massive elephant seals, and sea lions in California ocean waters.

The City of Brampton will plant 8,000 trees over the next year to rehabilitate its urban tree canopy with help from the federal government.

The key mystery remains of why PRV causes disease and mortality in farmed Atlantic salmon in Norway or other regions differently than it does on the West Coast.

The heat and the stench was staggering after masses of mussels, barnacles, clams, hermit crabs and starfish cooked to death at a number of Lower Mainland beaches, says biologist Chris Harley.

The author and activist is set to help develop the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia — one of the first of its kind at a Canadian university.

With about a third of the world's food coming from farms two hectares in size or smaller, the findings point to a need for better global policies to support smaller, more diversified farms, say the researchers behind the analysis. 

The internal survey gathered data based on one question: "In the past 12 months, have you worried that food would run out before you got money to buy more?" 

Eating local on university campuses is often difficult, but it will soon be getting easier for many B.C. post-secondary students.

Heating with wood stoves is responsible for 27 per cent of the small particle emissions considered dangerous to human health in B.C., and 25 per cent of the air particulates nationally.

Colin Dring said he was surprised by the level of food insecurity in his area, and taken aback by how “racialized and class-based some of the responses were to the issue of hunger.”

Emergency funds, food hubs and advocacy work are bringing food relief to students during COVID-19.