In 2023, wildfires burned 15 million hectares in Canada, more than doubling the previous record. These wildfires caused a record number of evacuations, unprecedented air quality impacts across Canada and the northeastern United States, and substantial strain on fire management resources. Using climate...
In May 2023, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) granted a contract to ExactEarth Ltd., a Spire Global, Inc. subsidiary, to do preparatory work for the implementation stages of a wildfire monitoring satellite. The contract calls for daily monitoring of all current wildfires in Canada from space to...
territory, or points plotting in the ocean); these were corrected where possible. Records that lacked critical metadata (i.e., coordinates, date, etc.), had obvious position or date errors that could not be easily rectified, were flagged at the source with quality control concerns, or had i...
The year 2023 witnessed a surge in wildfires, significantly surpassing the occurrences in the past decade [57]. With climate change, predictions suggest that Canada will face more frequent and intense wildfires, peaking around 2040–2045 [58]. However, respondents further emphasized that regulatory ...
Canada is warming two-fold faster than the global average [3], which is expected to amplify adverse health impacts via multidimensional exposure pathways, including changing weather patterns leading to extreme temperatures, drought, floods, and wildfires [3,4,5]. Likewise, there is a well-...
Human-induced climate change has increased the area burned, number, and severity of wildfires across Canada [1,2,3]. These increases are predicted to continue and worsen over the 21st Century [4,5] and to create an increasingly complex decision-making environment for fire management agencies. ...
To reach the Paris Agreement targets of holding the global temperature increase below 2 °C above the preindustrial levels, every human activity will need to be carbon neutral by 2050. Feasible means for industries to achieve carbon neutrality must be de