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Resilience
B.C. disaster management
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B.C.’s disaster management needs an overhaul

Experts weigh in on proposed changes to province's decades-old emergency legislation.

Impacts
Extreme weather events have increased significantly in the last 20 years
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Extreme weather events have increased significantly in the last 20 years

There has been a "staggering rise" in the number of extreme weather events over the past 20 years, driven largely by rising global temperatures and other climatic changes, according to a new report from the United Nations.

Resilience
Wildfires are worsening. The way we manage them isn't keeping pace
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Wildfires are worsening. The way we manage them isn't keeping pace

The blazes scorching the West highlight the urgency of rethinking fire management policies, as climate change threatens to make things worse.
Impacts
A storm expert's view: What lessons can we apply from hurricanes to the coronavirus?
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A storm expert's view: What lessons can we apply from hurricanes to the coronavirus?

A fierce hurricane and a deadly pandemic are very different disasters, but there are common elements that can guide our response to the current crisis.
Politics
Melanie Gall, Brian J. Gerber: Relaxed environmental regulations heighten risk during natural disasters
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Melanie Gall, Brian J. Gerber: Relaxed environmental regulations heighten risk during natural disasters

The damage to coal ash sites from Hurricane Florence demonstrates how a community's vulnerability to natural disasters is closely linked to how stringent environmental regulations are.
Solutions
New projects to boost renewable energy and improve climate resilience in Marshall Islands
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New projects to boost renewable energy and improve climate resilience in Marshall Islands

The World Bank and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands this week launched two climate change related projects that will increase investments in renewable energy, promote energy efficiency, and enhance the country's resilience to the impacts of climate change

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Coal stockpiles strain US power sector as demand wanes

Bogotá faces water rationing

Bogotá faces water rationing

Oil pipelines stretching into the distance

Wisconsin oil spill fuels doubts over Enbridge’s pipeline safety

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People advocating against the US hydrogen hub build out

Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Donald Trump

Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

CLIMATE
wind turbines lined up in a green field

Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

Palm trees bending in the wind

Cyclone devastates Mayotte