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Last updated at 10:10 AM on May 20, 2024 (Pacific Standard Time)

B.C. wildfire: Weather helps crews in Fort Nelson

"...“Because of the longer-term drought in the area, we've found and the crews have found that the fires burn quite deep, which makes the trees unstable and there are certain areas around the wildfire that the crews are finding it very difficult and challenging to work in. ”..."

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N.S. government spends $350,000 in funding on first of its kind simulator for NSCC

"...The Nova Scotia government is funding a new fisheries simulator for the NSCC Shelburne Campus which will allow students to practice operating fishing vessels while on land..."

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Six killed in a

"...As we enter another wildfire season, Environment and Climate Change Canada is advising people to pay attention to air pollution levels and check the Air Quality Health Index especially on smoky days.  HOW..."

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Storms damage homes in Oklahoma and Kansas. But in Houston, most power is restored

"...WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Fast-moving storms with strong winds, large hail and apparent tornadoes swept Oklahoma and Kansas, blowing roofs off homes and blocking roads with toppled trees and downed power lines. Meanwhile, Houston made progress in recovering from last week's deadly storms..."

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Nickel-rich Indonesia pitches EV battery plant plan to Elon Musk

"...He also spoke to officials and experts attending the conference on global water challenges, saying he believed that desalination could solve water shortages if enough energy was provided..."

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This wildfire season, changes are coming to better inform people about smoke hazards

"...Last years record-breaking wildfire season forced Canadians to become familiar with the scale of air pollution as hazardous smoke drifted across the country..."

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Wild breed shows potential for developing drought-resistant potato: researcher

"...Bourlaye Fofana, a research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, leads a team in Charlottetown that has examined wild potato varieties native to the South American Andes and that show potential to help the development of a more drought-resistant potato for North American markets..."

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Stock market today: Asian stocks advance after Wall Street closes out another winning week

"...U. S. futures rose, and oil prices climbed as investors focused on the Middle East, where a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials crashed in the mountainou s northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday..."

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Climate change impacts millions in India. But as the country votes, some politicians skirt the issue

"...The Indian subcontinent surrounded by ocean on three sides and the Himalayan ranges to its north is vulnerable to sea level rise, severe storms, heavy floods and melting glaciers. It's also experienced extreme heat spells and severe drought as global average temperatures climb. A report by the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment said India experienced extreme weather on nearly 90% of the days last year..."

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Northern Rockies Regional Municipality says four homes lost in B.C. wildfire

"...FORT NELSON, B. C. The Northern Rockies Regional Municipality in British Columbia says four homes have been lost in a wildfire that forced the evacuation of Fort Nelson more than a week ago..."

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Nova Scotia byelection vote set for Tuesday in riding formerly held by popular Tory

"...PICTOU, N. S. Voters in the rural Nova Scotia provincial electoral district of Pictou West are ready to go to the polls Tuesday in a riding that voted decisively Tory in the 2021 provincial election..."

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20 Quebec forest firefighters sent to Manitoba to help battle wildfires

"...Even though the rain of recent days has given respite to those fighting forest fires in western Canada, they are receiving reinforcements from Quebec..."

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Russian court freezes assets of two German banks in gas project dispute

"...VIENNA (AP) A court in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has ordered the seizing of assets of Germanys Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank in the country, the Russia state news agency Tass says. The order is in response to a lawsuit over the planned construction of a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Baltic Sea..."

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Halifax RCMP evacuating Fall River neighbourhood, officers on scene

"...TORONTO It was early May and wildfire season had already started to rage in Western Canada when seven people settled into a monthly support-group meeting over Zoom.  The facilitator, Toronto-based..."

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Podcasts

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TIL about sea level rise, part 2

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"...Sea level rise is already happening and affecting people right now..."

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10/23/20 - Brine Wells; Air Quality; Schools and Airborne Disease

Duration: 03:29

"...About 150 old brine wells in the area are being plugged..."

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Guarding the harvest: Tips for on-farm fire safety and prevention

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"...With a spring fire season that has fired up early and hot in Western Canada, there is no time like today to start working on a fire prevention plan..."

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Academic Research

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Beyond trees: Mapping total aboveground biomass density in the Brazilian savanna using high-density UAV-lidar data

"...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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Bark attributes determine variation in fire resistance in resprouting tree species

"...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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Evidence of widespread wildfires in coal seams from the Middle Jurassic of Northwest China and its impact on paleoclimate

"...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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Topography and fire legacies drive variable post-fire juvenile conifer regeneration in eastern Oregon, USA

"...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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Roxborough Park Community Wildfire Evacuation Drill: Data Collection and Model Benchmarking

"...The dataset is released in open access and is deemed to be useful for future wildfire evacuation modelling calibration and validation efforts..."

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Differences in Canopy Cover Estimations from ALS Data and Their Effect on Fire Prediction

"...Canopy cover is a primary attribute used in empirical wildfire models for certain fuel types..."

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"...To show the real-life applicability of our proposed architecture, it is introduced in a realistic setting such as wildfire monitoring, including a conceptual overview of how the proposed architecture could be implemented in this domain..."

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Inaction on Climate Change Projected to Reduce European Life Expectancy

"...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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Wildfire burn scar encapsulation

"...Due to drastic alterations of soil properties and to the land surfaces by these fires, risks of flash floods, debris flows, and severe erosion increases for these areas, which can have catastrophic consequences for biota, people and property..."

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Review of Infrastructure Resiliency Policy for Natural Disasters

"...A clear focus has been placed on earthquakes and flooding while wildfires and drought have been neglected..."

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A hybrid method for fire detection based on spatial and temporal patterns

"...Fire detection is a vital task for social, economic and environmental reasons..."

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Impact of extratropical cyclones, floods, and wildfires on firms? financial performance in New Zealand

"...The study findings also indicate that floods had no significant effect on the firm?s profit, and wildfires had no significant impact on the forestry firms? profit..."

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"...Each solution describes steps that are already being used in homes, schools, businesses, cities, and governments around the world-with full scientific references to help the reader dig deeper and push farther..."

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