Drought, Climate Change and Government Priorities Fuelling B.C.’s Unprecedented Wildfire Season

BC wildfires, climate change

It’s July 9 and as of the moment this article was published, there are well over 100 wildfires burning across British Columbia. There have been nearly 1000 in the province this fiscal year. Air quality across the south coast is comparable to that in Beijing and the smoke over Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland is so shockingly dense that NASA satellites are photographing it for posterity.

In a fire season that’s barely begun, the message is already set: 2015 is the summer that B.C. burned. And climate change has (Read more…)

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