Author: rpalma
Source: Pique You can’t miss it because the devastation runs as far as the eye can see. Driving between Merritt and Kelowna on Highway 97C in British Columbia’s southern interior, it is possible to feel a kind of terrible awe while passing mile after mile of rusty-coloured, dead pine forests. It is the work of […]
Source: CTV News Mountain Pine Beetles Contributing to Climate Change EDMONTON — Newly published research suggests mountain pine beetles have become so widespread that they’re not just benefiting from global warming, they’re starting to. contribute to it. “The effects of climate change cascade,” said Holly Maness, whose paper was published Sunday in the journal Nature […]
Source: Vancouver Sun An artificial Christmas tree would have to be used for 20 years before its carbon footprint matches that of a farmed tree, according to a forestry professor at the University of B.C. Steve Mitchell said most artificial trees are kept only six years before fashions change and owners throw them out. Most […]
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Source: Missoulian The trend toward larger, hotter wildfires in this part of the country is rapidly becoming the new normal. In the four decades between 1960 and 1999, wildfires in the United States scorched more than 7 million acres in a single year just once. Since 2000? Eight times, with 2012 at 8.8 million acres […]