Sonja Leverkus, an ecosystem scientist in British Columbia who also works as a firefighter, told CBS News on Monday that the northeast of the Canadian province has so many wildfires at the moment "because we are in a severe drought for a third year in a row." She said the parched condi...
Canadian banks will gain from the new rules for international students. Each student will be required to have a Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GIC) of more than $15,000. The amount is required for international students to be able to cover living costs. The new GIC is more than double ...
Polluted air and steadily rising temperatures are linked to health effects ranging from increased heart attacks and strokes to the spread of infectious diseases and psychological trauma.
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Another good thing about mistakes is this: When you are making mistakes, you are learning. Consider this: Edison failed 10,000 times before he perfected the light bulb. When asked how it felt to fail that many times, he said that he hadn’t failed 10,000 times, but rather had learned...
saw so much public support for the farmers. “It was great,” he said. “You could go on a hike, you could go on the highway, you could go on the beach, and there was support. I'm not nostalgic, but it felt like American or Canadian...
This can overheat the cell, bringing battery temperatures to dangerous and hazardous levels that can destroy the battery and, sometimes, cause fires. And so, defects within the batteries can spark the fires. “The companies who make the e-bikes are often smaller battery companies and many have...
The laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, US physicist John J. Hopfield and Canadian-British computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey E. Hinton, during the announcement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on Tuesday.JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty ...
She estimates that her lawn was last watered in June. That is consistent with thewateringrestrictions - which prohibits any residential watering of grass - the Canadian city imposed in early August as British Columbia (BC) tries to manage its most severe drought in eight years. ...
"Both the frequency and intensity of many climate extremes increase as the planet warms," Greg Flato, a senior research scientist for the Canadian government who helped organize the IPCC report, told Mashable. For example, as the climate warms the atmosphere can hold more water, resulting in...