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'Glaciers can't get a break': How climate change is affecting Canada's icy landscape

'Glaciers can't get a break': How climate change is affecting Canada's icy landscape

VANCOUVER — On a mountain high above the residents of Metro Vancouver, tucked inside a north-facing gully, the region's last remaining glacier is vanishing fast.
Head of Nobel Prize-winning UN World Food Program to quit

Head of Nobel Prize-winning UN World Food Program to quit

ROME (AP) — The executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, which won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago, says he will step down at the end of a six-year term heading the world's largest humanitarian organization.
Has B.C. turned a new leaf around protecting biodiversity?

Has B.C. turned a new leaf around protecting biodiversity?

Some conservation groups doubt B.C. will "prioritize the environment over extraction industries and actually reverse biodiversity loss and extinction in the province."
Canada's climate action plan underfunded, unclear regarding top risks: report

Canada's climate action plan underfunded, unclear regarding top risks: report

OTTAWA — Canada's climate adaptation strategy is underfunded and does not clearly align its goals with the country's top climate change risks, a new report says.
'Uncharted' dry spell threatens B.C. reservoir levels

'Uncharted' dry spell threatens B.C. reservoir levels

"This is a fall season we've never seen before. It's a very odd scenario."
B.C.'s largest hydrogen plant coming to North Van waterfront

B.C.'s largest hydrogen plant coming to North Van waterfront

The plant could power 30,000 hydrogen vehicles using fuel that today is just vented into the air as a waste product.
Turning CO2 into rock under the ocean in B.C.

Turning CO2 into rock under the ocean in B.C.

Cascadia Basin off coast of B.C. has huge sequestration potential
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