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How climate change is supercharging wildfires
By Amal Ahmed
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This is part of the Disaster 101 toolkit, a comprehensive guide to extreme weather preparation, response, and recovery.
Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters increasingly strike out of season, break records, and hit places they never have before.
How Solar Power Is Helping In Ukraine
There are many compelling reasons to replace fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy sources. Chief among them is to solve the climate change crisis and it is an urgent one. Another is to eliminate toxic air pollution that causes a huge number of human deaths per year around the world. … [continued]
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A record year for Great Lakes piping plovers
The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen nesting pairs. This year, the number reached 85 nesting pairs for the first time.
Owen Sound North Stars junior elite team clinches championship berth
The Owen Sound North Creative Playgrounds Stars Junior Elite Women’s Lacrosse (JEWL) team continued their playoff Cinderella run with a second consecutive upset victory, defeating third-ranked Kawartha 12–10 in round-robin play. After defeating the second-seeded Kitchener Waterloo Kodiaks in their first playoff game, the sixth-seeded North Stars squad, led by Brooklyn Doyle with seven points, […]
Storm-zapped London city pool closed as outdoor swimming season begins
Severe weather earlier this week damaged the electrical pumping system at the Byron pool in the city’s west end, forcing a repair shut-down.