August 3, 2018

In a big win for the City of Portland, Oregon, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued a ruling that the city had not violated the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause by voting to ban any new fossil fuel terminals within its borders.

'We’re finding that these blooms happen sporadically year-round,' says environmental specialist

 

Researchers collecting shellfish samples from Point Louisa, Juneau. (Lindsey Pierce)

Hundreds of people have been relocated from region in northwest of province
CBC News  Aug 07, 2018

More than two dozen buildings have been destroyed by a growing wildfire near a remote community in northern B.C.

On Tuesday, Chief Rick McLean from the Tahltan Nation said 27 structures have been lost in Telegraph Creek.

Several large fires have forced evacuation orders around the community over the past several days.

Waters staying above 20 C for days, which causes high stress and 'pre-spawn mortality' in fish, DFO says

Researchers say the world may be approaching a tipping point, followed by a dangerous slide towards Hothouse Earth, an overheated planet.

LONDON, 7 August, 2018 – Human actions threaten to push the planet into a new state, called Hothouse Earth. In such a world global average temperatures could stabilise at 4°C or even 5°C higher than they have been for most of human history.

How do you clear a room of climate activists? Start talking about war. It’s not just environmentalists that leave; it’s pretty much everyone.

July 16, 2018

Submission to BC government and Climate Solutions and Clean Growth Advisory Council

If you live in California, the effects of climate change loom large this summer. In Southern California, where I live, back-to-back heat waves have enveloped suburbs in triple-digit temperatures for weeks now. In Northern California, a fire that has burned more than 100,000 acres and claimed the lives of several people in Shasta County has been declared the seventh worst in the state’s history.