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Quebec provincial police have arrested a man in connection with numerous forest fires that burned earlier this summer in the province’s north. Brian Paré, 37, appeared by videoconference at a courthouse in Chibougamau, Que., about 700 kilometres north of Montreal, late Thursday afternoon to face two charges of arson. According to the indictment, the Chibougamau resident allegedly set […]

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Canada Wildfires: Trudeau Criticises Facebook Over News Ban Amid Crisis

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused Facebook of putting “profits ahead of people’s safety” after it blocked news amid devastating wildfires in the country. Facebook banned news on its platform in response to Canadian law forcing it to share profit with news outlets. Wildfire evacuees have said the ban has impacted their ability to […]

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Weather That Drove Eastern Canada’s Devastating Wildfires Made Twice as Likely by Climate Change

The weather conditions that fueledrecord-shattering wildfires in eastern Canada earlier this summer – and sent plumes of hazardous air into the US – were made more likely and more intense by the climate crisis, according to a new report published Tuesday. Scientists from the World Weather Attribution initiative – which calculates the role of climate change in extreme weather events – […]

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Chinese Scientists Calculate 1 Billion-Tonne Carbon Dioxide Emissions Cost of Canadian Wildfires

Chinese scientists estimate that the recent Canadian wildfires caused 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions by July 27, far exceeding Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. The area burned in Canada’s fire season this year is the largest on record, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC). It reported that by the end […]

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U.S., Canada Weigh in on Great Lakes

A system as vast and vital as the Great Lakes will always have countless stewards keeping watch over its health. The United States and Canada work cooperatively under the 2012 version of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) to manage and protect these shared waters of the two nations. The year 2022 marked the […]

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A Giant Pile of Logs is Trapping Millions of Tons of Carbon in Canada

A pileup of ancient logs nearly as big as Manhattan is trapping millions of tons of carbon in northern Canada — and much of that stored material could be released into the atmosphere due to climate change, according to a recent study. The fallen, jumbled-up wood has in some cases been sitting for more than […]

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Forests

A City-sized Patch of Fallen Trees is Piling Up in Arctic Canada

Deep in the Canadian Arctic, you can find a 51-square-kilometer (20-square-mile) pileup of fallen trees and ancient wood. Scientists have recently mapped this woody pile-up – the largest “logjam” in the world – and believe it’s likely to be having a massively underappreciated impact on the planet’s carbon cycle. The pile-up is located in the […]

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Canada’s 7.4% Emissions Cut is Still Too Slow to Meet UN Pledge

Canada has made significant progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions from before COVID-19, but the pace is still too slow to meet international commitments, new data show. Emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate-warming gases in 2021 were 7.4 per cent below 2019 levels, according to a government report released Friday. Still, they were up 1.8 […]