It s not just the smoke â as climate change prompts more wildfires, hidden health risks emerge
Climate change is expected to lead to a rise in the number of wildfires, which pose health dangers due to smoke inhalation. But there are also other risks to consider, such as the impact on mental health and clean water supplies.
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HALIFAX Anyone expecting to travel later this summer or fall should be prepared to pay more for everything from flights to car rentals, thanks to pent-up demand and seasonal increases. While traffic is still down dramatically at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, it s been steadily increasing in recent weeks as COVID-19 restrictions loosen. We re up to about 1,500 to 2,000 people a day, arriving and departing, Public Affairs Director Tiffany Chase told CTV News Wednesday. Still not that 11,000 that we would have seen pre-pandemic, but we continue to see small, incremental increases. I feel like, as more people are vaccinated, particularly getting the double dose … we expect more people will be choosing to travel to reunite, especially with family and friends in the coming weeks.
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the northeastern Alberta city of Fort McMurray.
Technically referred to as the sprawling municipality’s “urban service area” they do love their limp labels but more colloquially (and colourfully) called Fort Mac, the city at the junction of the Clearwater and Athabasca rivers is the administrative centre of the 63,780-square-kilometre RMWB and the sticky heart of Canada’s oilsands empire.
It’s also in need of a big hug.
Still smarting from devastating wildfires in 2016, the collapse of oil prices in 2014 and the recession of 2008, Fort Mac is now confronting a stubborn pandemic, the clobbering effects of a carbon-tax future and the relentless onslaught of “tarsands” smear campaigns.