Environment

The hot plume of air is set to persist over B.C.'s North Coast for the next four days, warns Environment Canada. Elsewhere in the province, temperatures remain elevated raising flood risks

The costliest single item, water purification, was assigned a value of $433.5 million

Heat is expected to settle in Friday and intensify over the weekend in B.C., where there were more than 40 wildfires on Wednesday

'The coastal ocean is changing in one way and Pacific salmon are changing in a myriad of other ways and those ways don't always align,' says researcher

Canada gives its logging industry credit for the carbon absorbed by trees planted after a wildfire, and in so doing, erases carbon pollution from one of its largest emitting sectors, the report says

'Progress is slow' in Impact Assessment Act process, says Canadian West Foundation

Based out of Vancouver, B.C., Canopy received $60 million this week to wean global supply chains off ancient forest products and replace them with alternatives, like recycled clothing and straw.

The B.C. government announced over $8 million in funding to 14 companies looking to recycle plastic waste or prevent it from entering depots and landfills

Full implementation of strategy still years away

While emissions from electricity generation have fallen in recent years, those coming from vehicles and the oil and gas industry have both increased