Canada and Quebec are preparing for another heavy forest fire season

Published: 11 April 2024

No one can say for sure whether Canada’s 2024 wildfire season will be as devastating as last year, when 15 million hectares of forest burned and over 230,000 people had to be evacuated from their...

‘Business as usual is not going to cut it’: Niki Ashton on feds’ economic update and wildfires

Published: 30 November 2023

As the ash settles on Canada’s record wildfire season, “business as usual from the federal government is not going to cut it,” NDP MP Niki Ashton told Canada’s National Observer.

Climate change made weather conditions that powered Quebec fires twice as likely, scientists say

Published: 28 August 2023

The record-setting wildfires that ripped through Quebec this summer were made more likely and more intense by human-caused climate change, according to a new analysis conducted by 16 researchers...

Canada’s devastating wildfire season prompts calls for new approach

Published: 16 August 2023

The wildfires that ravaged Canada this summer have some experts calling for a more aggressive approach than the country has applied in the past. ...

Experts: Quebec summer forecast calls for heat, humidity and severe thunderstorms

Published: 1 June 2022

A hot, "unstable and sticky" summer awaits Quebecers, according to The Weather Network, which predicts periods of abundant heat, often followed by severe thunderstorms. This will be the "fifth...

New study reveals the poor hit hardest by heat waves

Published: 18 February 2022

In a new study, our team of climate scientists, economists and engineers (including BRE’s Mohammad Reza Alizadeh and Jan F. Adamowski]) found that the poorest parts of the world are likely to be...

Mountain fires burning higher at unprecedented rates

Published: 15 June 2021

Forest fires have crept higher up mountains over the past few decades, scorching areas previously too wet to burn, according to researchers from McGill University. As wildfires advance uphill, a...

Disastrous duo: heatwaves and droughts

Published: 28 September 2020

Simultaneous heatwaves and droughts are becoming increasingly common in western parts of the United States, according to a new study led by researchers from McGill University. Periods of dry and...

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