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Last updated at 2:34 PM on May 18, 2024 (Pacific Standard Time)
"...One of the impacts of climate change is more blue-green algae..."
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"...From wildfires in Western Canada to the start of a Freedom Convoy organizer's trial in Ottawa, here are some of the best Canadian images of the past week..."
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"...Residents of Fort of McMurray displaced by wildfire were told they could return home Saturday..."
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"...The first distribution of badly needed aid is expected to begin this weekend after rolling off a newly built U. S. pier off the coast of Gaza, even as aid workers warn much more access is needed to the besieged territory where famine might be under way..."
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"...BERLIN (AP) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday toured flooded regions in the southwest, where rivers have swelled and caused flash floods and landslides after heavy rain and severe weather..."
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"...This fire centre is where two out of control wildfires continue to burn near Fort Nelson, a small town in northeast B. C. which is under an evacuation order..."
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"...BERLIN (AP) German authorities closed down Munich airport temporarily on Saturday after six climate activists broke through a security fence and glued themselves to access routes leading to runways, officials and local media reported..."
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"...In another room, hoses in the wall pump hundreds of litres of purified water into a dialysis machine where it is mixed with electrolyte solutions. Toxins from blood are removed, as is excess water from a patient's body, and the wastewater is piped into the city's sewer system..."
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"...Last week, the U. N. food agency said the unusually heavy seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed more than 300 people and destroyed thousands of houses, mostly in the northern province of Baghlan, which bore the brunt of floods on May 10th..."
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"...That theme was evident in Centennial Park in Fort St. John on May 17th, as Doig River First Nation (DRFN) hosted a gathering for evacuees of the wildfires that forced their members, Fort Nelson, and Fort Nelson First Nation to flee and head to Fort St. John and Dawson Creek..."
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"...RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) A decades-old landslide thats rapidly accelerating has forced the dismantling of Wayfarers Chapel, an iconic Southern California church that was designed by one of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's sons and built among soaring redwoods and sweeping Pacific Ocean views..."
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"..."We have northern resident killer whales, which are listed as threatened, and we have southern residents, which are listed as endangered so it's really important for us to know how much energy they're using and how much food they need to survive," McRae told CTV News..."
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"...If the power goes out, the food that's in your refrigerator can keep cold for about four hours, and what's in your freezer can keep cold for up to two days, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency..."
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"...FORT ST. JOHN, B. C..."
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Recent episodes relevant to the latest news and opinion.
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"...Longtime listeners know that Sea Change Radio is not a debate format – we do not generally provide a platform for climate change deniers or other purveyors of disinformation..."
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"...On this episode of “Ask NRCan,” research scientist Alexandre Normandeau talks about his work on underwater landslides and their impacts on coastal communities. ..."
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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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"...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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"...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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