climate change
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Natural disasters growing due to climate change
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With climate change causing rising temperatures and sea levels, it is important to understand the risks of natural disasters in our area. There has been recent flooding in China, wildfires in Canada, California and Hawaii. Further, there have been hurricanes in the Caribbean and landslides in India. Many factors go into the effect a natural…
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Laurier professor informs UN and international policymakers through documentary films
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Last year, Mark Terry premiered his documentary film The Changing Face of Iceland in front of some of the planet’s most important decision makers at the United Nations’ COP26 climate summit. Terry is an award-winning documentarian and explorer, a contract faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Department of English and Film Studies and an…
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Hurricane Fiona devastates the Canadian Maritimes
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Fields of debris, uprooted trees and homes floating away in the sea. These were the images coming out of Atlantic Canada last weekend when post-tropical storm Fiona made landfall. Despite Fiona being downgraded from hurricane to post-tropical storm before reaching the Maritimes, the CBC reported that peak winds were as high as 171km/h in some…
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Extreme weather events and climate anxiety on the rise
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Extreme weather events have been aplenty this summer. Heatwaves, for instance, have been consistently making headlines around the world. According to Robert McLeman, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, “heatwaves in one sense are a normal thing. They happen periodically. It goes in cycles, these things in the weather.” “What…
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Laurier signs on to climate change charter to guide future investments
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Wilfrid Laurier has signed onto a charter that places climate change as a central issue when determining financial investments the university may make. The charter, called Investing to Address Climate Change: A Charter for Canadian Universities, was created by the University of Toronto in June of last year and as of now has 16 other…
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Laurier study shows decline in fire resilience of black spruce trees
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A new study led by Wilfrid Laurier University’s Associate professor of biology, Jennifer Balzer, has found that an increasing number of black spruce trees are less resilient to forest fires due to climate change threatening boreal ecosystems. The study was published in the journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and evaluates the…
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Climate change is a planetary issue and it needs to start being treated as one
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If you would have told me a few weeks ago that I would come away impressed the most by the leader of the Bloc Quebecois, I probably would have snickered at your joke. To my surprise, I was taken aback by the bluntness and seriousness of Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet — especially on the topic…
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Takeaways from the IPCC Report and the consequence of inaction
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Climate change is unfolding rapidly before our eyes and a lack of inaction would lead to disastrous outcomes worldwide. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their working group 1 report on Aug. 9th and it starts with a clear statement: “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread…
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SPECTRUM exhibit sheds a light on climate change
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On Jan 24. THEMUSEUM officially launched the ALARM: Responding to Our Climate Emergency exhibit. ALARM features a total of four exhibits, with the most recent one, SPECTRUM: The Climate Emergency Experience opening this past week at The Shops at Waterloo Town Square. The other three exhibits are Agents for Change: Facing the Anthropocene, MELTING ICE…
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Editorial: Don’t just share, act!
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Climate change has been a growing cause of concern for people across the globe for years. We see the effects of climate change everywhere: across the news, on the internet, through social media and, for some of us, even first hand. However, for those of us who are lucky enough to live in a place…
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