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Anticipating Canada’s crisis response decisions can save critical time in future wildfire seasons  

Anticipating Canada’s crisis response decisions can save critical time in future wildfire seasons  

Today, both Canada and the United States are dealing with unprecedented levels of smoke from wildfires. And while forest management practices and climate change are partly to blame, so is the failure of governments to give people the right tools to make effective proactive crisis decisions.
IRES’s Robin Gregory is featured by breaking down preparation to 3 crucial factors. (Featured image:
mikhail serdyukov/ unsplash)

Canada and U.S. cooperation needed to solve our wildfire crisis

Canada and U.S. cooperation needed to solve our wildfire crisis

IRES professor Robin Gregory is featured in the Globe and Mail as he argues that reducing the threat and damage from wildfires can happen – but not without implementing the well researched forest management policies that are co-ordinated among all levels of government.

Forget herbicides. Sandblasting will whack those weeds

Forget herbicides. Sandblasting will whack those weeds

Claire Kremen discusses the need for substantive changes to accomplish agricultural sustainability and to think about the environmental costs of simplified solutions and systems

Nose for trouble: B.C. scientists brace for a deadly bat fungus

Nose for trouble: B.C. scientists brace for a deadly bat fungus

Aaron Aguirre discusses the deadly bat fungus that has up to a 95% mortality rate and why we should care about it.

Opinion: We must eliminate persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic plastics before it’s too late

Opinion: We must eliminate persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic plastics before it’s too late

Dr. Gunilla Öberg along with other experts shares her opinion that categorizing harmful plastics as PBT pollutants can help governments to control, or eliminate altogether, the creation and usage of toxic or otherwise harmful plastics. They hope the UN will make the right choice.