2 h. ago B.C. Climate News: UBC research finds plants are 'leaking' more water than thought | Decision finds old

Here's all the latest local and international news concerning climate change for the week of Feb. 17 to 23, 2025.

Society

7 h. ago Climate Change: UBC research finds plants are 'leaking' more water than thought

UBC researcher Sean Michaletz's study challenges a long-standing assumption about plant water loss. It could change how climate models predict future warming.

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62 h. ago PUMA’s Sustainability Efforts for Climate, Water Security and Forests Receive ‘Leadership Level’ Scores From CDP

HERZOGENAURACH, Germany — Sports company PUMA has received strongly improved scores for its sustainability efforts regarding water security and forests and maintained a top score for its climate policy in the latest ratings by global environmental non-profit CDP. While PUMA kept its A ranking in climate change, it improved its scores in water security and […]

Politics

3 d. ago Climate groups push for transparency in alleged fossil fuel education influence

Climate advocacy groups are calling on officials to crack down on the fossil fuel industry’s role in K-12 education, suggesting its alleged influence has gone largely unchecked in the absence of robust climate change education. A report released Tuesday by the groups For Our Kids and Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment suggests at […]

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3 d. ago FEMA Targets Climate, Diversity Workers as Trump Purge Widens

The jobs of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees tied to climate change and related hazards are next on the chopping block after hundreds of probationary workers were fired earlier this week, according to people familiar with the matter and an internal FEMA email seen by Bloomberg News.

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3 d. ago Pensions need to step up on climate as political momentum wavers: Shift

TORONTO — An advocacy group is calling on Canada’s public pension managers to use their financial heft to more publicly work to reduce climate change as political efforts become less reliable. Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health says in a report that Canada’s big pensions need to recognize the power and influence they […]

Politics

3 d. ago Leak of containment pond at site of Yukon mine disaster impacting creek: officials

Officials in Yukon say they believe about 19 million litres of cyanide-contaminated water leaked from a containment pond at the site of a mining disaster last year before the problem was spotted and the water diluted. Erin Dowd, director of technical services for the Mines Ministry, says the cyanide-contaminated water from the pond at the […]

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5 d. ago Alberta set new temperature records over weekend as cold snap continues

Environment and Climate Change Canada described the current weather conditions as a 'long-duration cold event.'

Sport

8 d. ago Letters February 14, 2025: ‘Where did our resolve to fix climate change with taxes go?’

What happened? I remember when global warming was a threat and how we as a nation must reduce our emissions. Carbon taxes were to be the answer and if you did not agree you were a global warming denier. I couldn’t see (and still cannot) how the major emitters did not punish their economies with […]

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