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After more than five amazing years at the @ConversationCA, I'm returning to reporting, to cover climate change and the global energy transition (plus other important science/environment stories, of course). More TK.
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Come work with Lauren … and the rest of the team. It’s a great job!
Who wants to be my boss? @CBCNews is hiring a Senior Producer of health, climate, and science. It's a role that requires medical/science savvy and, ideally, an understanding of the unique demands of a (very) multiplatform newsroom. Deadline is May 21:
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NEW: Medical experts say Canada could be in for a tough flu season in the months ahead. My latest explains why: cbc.ca/news/health/canada-fl…
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Follow live for updates: cbc.ca/news/health/livestory…
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BREAKING: Canada has lost its measles elimination status.
Public health officials announced the news following review from the Pan American Health Organization which confirmed “sustained transmission of the same measles virus strain in Canada for a period of more than one year.”
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We do understand the #globalwarming caused by fossil fuels - for four decades it’s been going as predicted.
But we don’t understand the surprise upward leap that is happening now.
And that worries me.
Even when 2 things seem to be in opposition, they can also be true: COVID is much better now than before, yet 100,000 people have died in the U.S. this year already. With cases rising, conversations about what we should do are challenging but needed. statnews.com/2023/09/10/covi…
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A common confusion is that to decarbonise, the world will need to produce the equivalent of coal, oil & gas in the form of low-carbon energy.
That's not true.
Most fossil energy gets wasted. In the US, just one-third gets turned into useful services. The rest is wasted as heat.
Canada has had record-breaking wildfires this year. They’ve also reburned areas that were trying to make a comeback. It could lead to regeneration failure — the transition from spruce and pine to birch and aspen in boreal forest. My latest for the Globe: theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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The 2023 ONA Community Award recognizes @SiriCarpenter for her work leading The Open Notebook, a nonprofit organization on a mission to help journalists improve their skills in covering science, health, technology and the environment. awards.journalists.org/entri…
An eye-opening graphic on wildfires in Canada by @Reuters reuters.com/graphics/CANADA-…
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Comparison of cumulative total estimated carbon emissions from #wildfires across Canada with rapidly increasing values since the beginning of May in both western & eastern areas #feuxdeforet #CanadaFires #IIFF
The bottom of this one small Ontario lake holds thousands of years of human history, and it could be the one place on Earth that best captures human influence on the chemistry and climate of the planet.
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Lots of fantastic, well-reported stories on climate change here from around the world. Congrats to all the finalists. I can't wait to read/watch/listen to these: coveringclimatenow.org/proje…
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Severity of drought conditions in boreal Canada has reached an unprecedented level in recent history when looking at the commonly used Drought Code component of the FWI system - an updated of doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.…
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The National Park Service has put out this noise map for the contiguous United States.
Noise pollution. The next frontier.
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TikToks & other social media posts are spreading #misinformation about #wildfires in Canada. They falsely say they were started deliberately by helicopters, drones or "directed energy weapons" (??!).
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A new study looking at the California wildfires finds that the increase in the area burned over the past 50 years is due to human-caused climate change.
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Wrapping things up: North America saw the warmest May on record.
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(1 of 5) IT’S OFFICIAL: Earth had its 3rd-warmest #May in 2023.
North and South America saw their warmest May on record.
Record-low May sea ice extent in the Antarctic.
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@NOAANCEI #StateOfClimate
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