Climate Change

A view from Red Mountain near Rossland. The depth of the snowpack in the West Kootenay was 72 per cent of normal as of April 1, 2024. Photo: Tim Hart/ Unsplash

MELTDOWN: Low West Kootenay snowpack threatens drinking water drawn from creeks

Watershed vulnerability depends on size, aspect and amount of precipitation

A view from Red Mountain near Rossland. The depth of the snowpack in the West Kootenay was 72 per cent of normal as of April 1, 2024. Photo: Tim Hart/ Unsplash
James Tshuma, a small scale farmer, holds a dried up maize crop in his field in Mangwe district, Zimbabwe, Friday, March 22, 2024. Tshuma has lost hope of harvesting anything from his fields. But a patch of green vegetables is thriving in a small garden the 65-year-old is keeping alive with homemade organic manure and fertilizer. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

African farmers look to the past and the future to address climate change

The continent faces the worst consequences of the changing climate

James Tshuma, a small scale farmer, holds a dried up maize crop in his field in Mangwe district, Zimbabwe, Friday, March 22, 2024. Tshuma has lost hope of harvesting anything from his fields. But a patch of green vegetables is thriving in a small garden the 65-year-old is keeping alive with homemade organic manure and fertilizer. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
A University of Victoria researcher found that plankton behavior changes before a mass extinction event, which could give insights to how climate change effects the ecosystem. (University of Victoria)

Marine plankton could act as alert in mass extinction event: UVic researcher

Fossil record analysis shows that plankton community structures change before a mass extinction

A University of Victoria researcher found that plankton behavior changes before a mass extinction event, which could give insights to how climate change effects the ecosystem. (University of Victoria)
A sign at Green Timbers Urban Forest Park in Surrey shows the site of B.C.’s inaugural forest replanting efforts in 1930. (Photo: facebook.com/greentimbers)

10 billion trees planted in B.C. since reforestation work began 94 years ago

A ceremonial seedling was planted at Green Timbers Urban Forest Park in Surrey

A sign at Green Timbers Urban Forest Park in Surrey shows the site of B.C.’s inaugural forest replanting efforts in 1930. (Photo: facebook.com/greentimbers)
Txai Surui films a question from a journalist for Indigenous Peoples Minister Sonia Guajajara during the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo)

European court showing safe climate a human right: former UN rights chief

European Court of Human Rights says government not doing enough to protect from climate shocks

Txai Surui films a question from a journalist for Indigenous Peoples Minister Sonia Guajajara during the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo)
NDP MPs Laurel Collins and Peter Julian speak in the Foyer of the House of Commons before Question Period, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The New Democrats say they are supporting a Conservative motion that calls on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to defend his carbon pricing policy in a televised “emergency meeting” with the country’s premiers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

NDP backs Tory push for national carbon price ‘emergency meeting’

Prime Minister Trudeau has rejected calls for summit with premiers over controversial tax

NDP MPs Laurel Collins and Peter Julian speak in the Foyer of the House of Commons before Question Period, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The New Democrats say they are supporting a Conservative motion that calls on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to defend his carbon pricing policy in a televised “emergency meeting” with the country’s premiers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Paige Thurston, Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework program manager, right, completes a survey following a hydrometric install on Apex Creek in the Columbia Basin near Nelson, B.C. in this undated handout photo. A trio of experts in British Columbia says persistent drought is exposing cracks in how the province manages water, especially when it's scarce. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Living Lakes Canada *MANDATORY CREDIT*

As more drought looms, B.C. doesn’t know where all its groundwater is going

Drier conditions common but province only beginning to come to terms on need to track situation

Paige Thurston, Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework program manager, right, completes a survey following a hydrometric install on Apex Creek in the Columbia Basin near Nelson, B.C. in this undated handout photo. A trio of experts in British Columbia says persistent drought is exposing cracks in how the province manages water, especially when it's scarce. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Living Lakes Canada *MANDATORY CREDIT*
The B.C. company that operates Canada’s largest container terminal is going to court against the federal government to keep five years worth of greenhouse-gas emissions data from the facility secret. Gantry cranes used to load and unload cargo containers from ships sit idle at Global Container Terminals at Deltaport, in Delta, B.C., Friday, July 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C.’s largest port suing to keep its emissions data secret

Deltaport operator says making data public would put it at competitive disadvantage

The B.C. company that operates Canada’s largest container terminal is going to court against the federal government to keep five years worth of greenhouse-gas emissions data from the facility secret. Gantry cranes used to load and unload cargo containers from ships sit idle at Global Container Terminals at Deltaport, in Delta, B.C., Friday, July 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Airlines and marine shippers are asking Ottawa to expand funding for transport sustainability, through both green efforts and bare-bones infrastructure upgrades. Transport trucks carry cargo containers at port in Vancouver, on Friday, July 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Canada’s transport industry wants federal climate change investment

Lobby seeking tax credits, loans and grants to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and compete

Airlines and marine shippers are asking Ottawa to expand funding for transport sustainability, through both green efforts and bare-bones infrastructure upgrades. Transport trucks carry cargo containers at port in Vancouver, on Friday, July 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The national price on pollution will rise by $15 per tonne today for consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, First Nations, as well as public-sector operations such as hospitals, universities, schools and municipalities. A person pumps gas at a gas station in Mississauga, Ont., Tuesday, February 13, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov

As Canada starts to pay more for pollution today, here’s what you need to know

A quick Q&A on what the carbon tax hike means, both in B.C. and across the country

The national price on pollution will rise by $15 per tonne today for consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, First Nations, as well as public-sector operations such as hospitals, universities, schools and municipalities. A person pumps gas at a gas station in Mississauga, Ont., Tuesday, February 13, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits UNIFOR Local 200 and Local 444 members in Windsor, Ont., Thursday, March 14, 2024. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back against premiers asking for a pause to the carbon price’s upcoming increase, saying they have not provided any better ideas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne

Premiers complaining about carbon price failed to pitch better ideas: Trudeau

Price increasing from $65 a tonne to $80, adding about 3 cents to the cost of a litre of gasoline

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits UNIFOR Local 200 and Local 444 members in Windsor, Ont., Thursday, March 14, 2024. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back against premiers asking for a pause to the carbon price’s upcoming increase, saying they have not provided any better ideas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne
A civil lawsuit launched by Stand Environmental Society and two B.C. residents alleges that FortisBC is misrepresenting how much renewable natural gas captured and purified from sources like landfills the company is actually making available to British Columbians. (Black Press Media file photo)

B.C. residents, environmental society sue FortisBC for ‘greenwashing’

Stand Environmental launched civil suit seeking a court declaration of deceptive conduct

A civil lawsuit launched by Stand Environmental Society and two B.C. residents alleges that FortisBC is misrepresenting how much renewable natural gas captured and purified from sources like landfills the company is actually making available to British Columbians. (Black Press Media file photo)
Minister of Energy Mines and Low Carbon Innovation Josie Osborne (left) with Nelson-Creston MLA Brittny Anderson at a public discussion of energy issues in Nelson on March 22. Photo: Bill Metcalfe

B.C. cabinet minister discusses energy issues with Nelson residents

Josie Osborne is also the minister responsible for low carbon innovation

Minister of Energy Mines and Low Carbon Innovation Josie Osborne (left) with Nelson-Creston MLA Brittny Anderson at a public discussion of energy issues in Nelson on March 22. Photo: Bill Metcalfe
A cyclist makes their way along a roadway in a lane marked for bicycles, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022 in Ottawa. Bodies and minds are just as affected by climate change as sea ice and forests, says University of Alberta scientist Sherilee Harper. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Alberta scientists working to shift climate change focus to health impacts

Group hopes reframing of issue will help public understand more personal impacts of climate change

A cyclist makes their way along a roadway in a lane marked for bicycles, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022 in Ottawa. Bodies and minds are just as affected by climate change as sea ice and forests, says University of Alberta scientist Sherilee Harper. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Pamela Charron, executive director of the Worker Solidarity Network, places a red piece of paper into a giant thermometer Saturday, June 17, as part of a demonstration in front of the B.C. Legislature calling on government to make labour law changes to better protect workers in extreme heat. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)

High heat? Law should say get out of the kitchen: B.C. labour advocates

Group wants to see labour laws enforcing maximum safe indoor work temperatures

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Pamela Charron, executive director of the Worker Solidarity Network, places a red piece of paper into a giant thermometer Saturday, June 17, as part of a demonstration in front of the B.C. Legislature calling on government to make labour law changes to better protect workers in extreme heat. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)
Carson Binda, the B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, stood outside Premier David Eby’s constituency office in Vancouver on March 21, 2024, demanding that he oppose the upcoming carbon tax hike. (Jane Skrypnek/Black Press Media)

Carbon tax talk heating up in B.C. as April 1 hike nears

Taxpayers group and federal Conservative leader urging premier to oppose increase

Carson Binda, the B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, stood outside Premier David Eby’s constituency office in Vancouver on March 21, 2024, demanding that he oppose the upcoming carbon tax hike. (Jane Skrypnek/Black Press Media)
Canada’s carbon price could slash greenhouse gas emissions by more than 100 million tonnes a year by 2030 but only about one-fifth of that will come from the consumer carbon price at the centre of Conservative attacks. Smoke rises from the stacks at an energy facility in Toronto on Thursday January 15, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

Industrial carbon price cuts 3 times the emissions of consumer levy: report

New research projects carbon tax could cut emissions by more than 100 million tonnes a year by 2030

Canada’s carbon price could slash greenhouse gas emissions by more than 100 million tonnes a year by 2030 but only about one-fifth of that will come from the consumer carbon price at the centre of Conservative attacks. Smoke rises from the stacks at an energy facility in Toronto on Thursday January 15, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Joel Krahn/Yukon News file

Net-zero airports goal of multiple B.C. air travel initiatives

Emissions data collection, sustainable fuel research, air-to-marine options underway

Joel Krahn/Yukon News file
(Black Press Media file photo)

B.C. sparks new public EV charging stations in rural corners of province

More than 500 new stations to help fill ‘geographic gaps’ in B.C.’s charging network

(Black Press Media file photo)
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses his caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Poilievre says ‘spike the hike’, threatens carbon tax non-confidence vote

Conservative leader dangles ‘carbon tax election’ as Liberal MPs ask critics for a better idea

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses his caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick