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Last updated at 10:48 PM on March 18, 2024 (Pacific Standard Time)
"...Amid warnings of an early start to B. C. 's wildfire season, the BC SPCA is reminding you to make sure your pets are part of your emergency exit plan..."
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"...Toronto Public Health (TPH) is alerting the public after paramedics recently responded to six suspected opioid overdose-related deaths. The health unit said that the number of people who died of a drug overdose between March 14 and 17 is triple the current average seen over a four-day period in the past 12 weeks. The deaths occured troughout the city, public health said..."
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"...The company, which announced in January it was selling 20,000 of the electric vehicles in its fleet, or about a third of the EVs it owned, is now replacing the CEO who helped build up that fleet, giving it the companys fifth boss in just four years..."
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"...As their community still struggles with rebuilding infrastructure and housing residents whose homes burned in a devastating wildfire, Shuswaps local government is baffled at comments made by provincial officials..."
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"...Just after midnight Monday, the price for gasoline at stations throughout Metro Vancouver climbed above $2 per litre, before dipping ever so slightly below the two-dollar mark..."
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"...Preparations for this years wildfire season are already well underway, said Ma in a press release. We have seen the devastating consequences of climate change on our communities and we are using lessons learned from last year to strengthen our approach to emergencies. By taking a whole-of-government approach and working with local governments, First Nations and emergency-response partners, we can ensure we are as prepared as possible for whatever might come..."
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"...Starting in January 2025, existing sewer surcharges will be split into two categories: a fee based on water consumption and a separate stormwater fee "based on the amount of impervious surface area on a property," according to a report presented to council Monday..."
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"...The study, published Monday in Nature Ecology and Evolution and led by researchers at the University of B. C. , is one of the largest of its kind on wildlife activity, involving 120 researchers worldwide and 5,000 so called camera traps, taking pictures of the animals..."
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"...Ontario's Liberal leader says she will not introduce a provincial carbon tax if she is elected premier in the 2026 election. "Let me be very clear. A carbon tax will not be part of my plan..."
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"...Rancher Werner Stump said spring is usually a “season of optimism” for farmers in British Columbia, but worries linger after unprecedented drought last year and another dry season looming..."
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"...With 24 solar panels on his roof, Jose Legris is on his way to becoming energy-independent, and his home is considered to be net zero..."
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"...Thanks for tuning into this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio! On this episode, host Shaun Haney is joined by RealAgricultures in-house agronomist, Peter Wheat Pete Johnson to discuss stripper headers, optimal corn plant population, and more..."
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"...There's a long list of known ways in which wildfire smoke can negatively affect corn and other crops, but could the overall effect of the smoky haze in summer potentially be positive for yields? It's a complex question to answer, says Dan Quinn, extension corn specialist with Purdue University, in this Corn School episode recorded. ..."
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Recent peer-reviewed papers relevant to the latest news and opinion.
"...However, their ability to store and sequester carbon is uncertain due to combined and intermingling effects of anthropogenic activities and climate change, which impact wildfire regimes and vegetation dynamics..."
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"...Predicting the impact of wildfires on ecosystem services and habitat values requires quantifying rates of post-fire tree mortality and topkill..."
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"...This carbon storage is vulnerable due to permafrost degradation and wildfire disturbances under ongoing and projected climate change..."
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"...Today wildfire is an important disturbance in many continental ecosystems, and it is assumed that with ongoing climate changes the frequencies and impacts of wildfires will increase in many regions..."
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"...Increasingly frequent large wildfires in the western US raise questions about the effects of climate and site-level factors on forest ecosystem resilience..."
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"...In this paper, we attempt to model information propagation in online social networks using a nature-inspired approach based on a modified forest-fire model..."
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"...In this paper, we convert excess mortality estimates due to increases in extreme weather from climate change (heat waves, cold waves, droughts, wildfires, river and coastal floods, and windstorms) into potential reductions in life expectancy at birth in thirty-one European countries..."
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"...While the chaotic nature of the ETC and jet stream interaction means that ETCs grouped by similar characteristics and locations can result in varying downstream responses, the composite analysis reveals some areas of consistently altered fire weather for ETCs which recurve at certain longitudinal ranges, including the Pacific Northwest and northern Intermountain West..."
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