Homes along Skeena River on evacuation alert due to flooding
The Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine announced Wednesday that residents of Old Remo and New Remo near Terrace should be ready to leave their homes at a moment s notice.
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Posted: Jun 02, 2021 8:02 PM PT | Last Updated: June 3
A farm house in New Remo, B.C., is shown surrounded by high water on Wednesday. (Janet Munson)
Flood warnings and watches have been posted for several river systems in B.C. as heavy rain drenches the northwest while a heat wave sets records in other…
Ambitious B.C. project aims to fight climate change one seed at a time
Seed the North will collect seeds and use drone technology to drop them over areas disturbed by both natural disaster and industry.
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Seed the North will collect seeds, combine them in biodiverse seedpods and, using drone technology, drop them over thousands of acres that have been disturbed by natural events and industry. (Amanda Follett Hosgood for The Tyee)
For Natasha Kuperman, the seed was planted at a young age.
“Everyone has an issue that they think is the most important thing,” she says. “My entire life, it was clear to me without a doubt that climate change is the issue that trumps all other issues.”
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Image Credit: The Narwhal/Marty Clemens May 11, 2021 - 6:00 AM Clear plastic bags hang from small spigots plugged into birch trunks in a mixed stand of deciduous and coniferous trees on a hillside above the Kispiox River in northwest B.C. Denzel Sutherland-Wilson and his 19-year-old niece, Hailey Wilson, pour the birch water collected overnight from five trees into a 20-litre bucket, explaining they’ve been doing this every day for a couple of weeks.