Rocks the size of coffee mugs continue to drop hundreds of feet down steep bluffs onto Highway 4, an important transportation route closed by wildfire activity on Vancouver Island a week ago.
In a world facing widespread water shortages, rising emissions and escalating inequity, becoming mindful about our fashion choices is seen as a moral imperative by more and more of us each year, says Marley Alles, who started a clothing rental company.
B.C. has created a new plan to tackle the twin spectres of ocean acidification and dwindling oxygen levels seen as leading climate threats for coastal communities, marine ecosystems and industry along the West Coast.
Over the past few days, apocalyptic skies have darkened Tony Wawatie's traditional territory around Barriere Lake. Hundreds of wildfires are scorching Quebec's Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, forcing most of the First Nation's roughly 800 members to evacuate.
Finally, perhaps more people will start talking about climate change, worrying about it, fearing it (as we should) and thinking about what to do about it, writes Linda Solomon Wood.
“This is at least the third year where I've had to wear a respirator,” says Sayward, B.C., resident Shannon Briggs, whose children are growing up in the age of apocalyptic wildfires.
