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Amidst a record fire season, British Columbia tries to get ready for future climate damage

Excerpt:	Eby is acting in a fire season in which 8,687 square miles have already burned, with one fire in northeast B.C. larger in size than the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. The province, once nicknamed Canada’s “lotus land”, has been hit with a succession of climate calamities in recent years.
Published at:	11:33 AM on Thursday, September 14th, 2023
Written by:	Joel Connelly
Categories:	Our Environment, Policy Topics
Other Tags:	Climate Crisis
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Medical Lake ordered to evacuate as fast-spreading Gray Fire consumes structures

Excerpt:	The blaze was one of three fires burning in Eastern Washington near Spokane as the weekend of August 18th-20th, 2023 began.
Published at:	9:26 PM on Friday, August 18th, 2023
Written by:	Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:	Breaking News, Our Environment, Policy Topics, Public Planning
Other Tags:	Emergency Preparedness
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East Coasters, national media discover the poisonous, gloomy affliction of wildfire smoke

Excerpt:	"Zero shade for the New Yorkers dealing with this - it's awful - but it's wild to see the way East Coast media is suddenly doing wall-to-wall coverage of something that's been reality on the West Coast for a decade," noted Rachel Alexander.
Published at:	8:12 PM on Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
Written by:	Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:	Our Environment, Policy Topics
Other Tags:	Pollution
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Pacific Northwest grapples with an increasing number of wildfires as summer’s end nears

Excerpt:	The skies above many areas of the Pacific Northwest grew smokier Saturday as the number of wildfires plaguing the region increased in number and severity, leading to a fresh round of highway closures and property evacuations with only days left until the end of summer and the beginning of autumn.
Published at:	4:10 PM on Saturday, September 10th, 2022
Written by:	Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:	Our Environment, Policy Topics
Other Tags:	Climate Crisis
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