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Last updated at 11:12 AM on May 10, 2024 (Pacific Standard Time)
"...A large property southwest of Edmonton has been donated to the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) to aid with wildlife conservation. The NCC is a non-profit organization that aims to protect land and by extension, plants and wildlife. The 160-acre property contains "extensive boreal mixedwood forests," which serve as "critical" habitats for migratory birds in North America, according to the NCC..."
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"...A lemur at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo became a mom with a healthy ring-tailed lemur this week..."
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"...Crews are battling an out-of-control wildfire near Fort McMurray..."
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"...In its ruling, the Supreme Court says the watershed zoning was an independent enactment, and the market value assessment of the property must take into account it is limited to discretionary agriculture, forestry and public utility uses..."
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"...SANDY, Utah (AP) Search crews on Friday uncovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City a day earlier and were preparing to bring them off the mountain via helicopter, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said..."
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"...German police said Friday they had prevented hundreds of demonstrators from storming Teslas factory near Berlin during protests against the pioneering electric carmaker over its environmental footprint..."
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"...This weekend will be the warmest weekend so far in 2024 in Calgary. Daytime highs are expected to range from 23 C to 25 C with an abundance of sunshine. These clear skies are also expected to last overnight which will prove helpful for viewing the Aurora Borealis..."
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"...RELATED: Canada to see ‘greater wildfire risks' due to drought, heat this summer..."
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"...A tsunami also isn't expected, Earthquakes Canada said..."
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"...LOS ANGELES (AP) Homeowners have been spending more on home renovations in recent years, as high interest rates and stubbornly high inflation drove up costs for everything from flooring to refrigerators..."
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"...GOMA, Congo (AP) Floods caused by unusually heavy rains in eastern Congo caused hardship for more than 470,000 people, the World Food Program said Wednesday..."
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"...U. N. officials warn that the lack of fuel is undermining medical facilities, water supplies and sewage systems across Gaza..."
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"...“When I took on this position two years ago, I wanted to demonstrate the difference in recovery . ..."
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"...One year ago at this time, gasoline prices were 1. 50, and diesel was 1. 34..."
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"...Hundreds gathered at the site of a proposed logging project in Kananaskis, calling for the protection of the area. The group hiked and biked up Moose Mountain to protest in one of the spaces that could be clear-cut, one night after more than 650 people gathered at a public feedback event in Cochrane held by the logging company. "These actions can feel like you are shouting in a vacuum when it's primarily online-organized, and so this lets people know how many other people care about these trails, lets them feel a part of something," said Jeff Woodgate, Grow Kananaskis founder..."
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"...Increased tremors have been felt in Iceland, and concerns about an impending eruption have led to the evacuation of the town of Grindavik..."
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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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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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"...Usually, environmental hazards, such as wildfires, are part of the regular environmental dynamic and not considered a threat to biodiversity..."
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"...Smoke from wildfires contains many air pollutants of concern and epidemiological studies have identified associations between exposure to wildfire smoke PM2..."
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"...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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"...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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"...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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"...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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"...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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