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BC wildfires

Natural disasters and the threat to our outdoor lives

I was born and raised in France’s Pyrenees and made my life around the mountains, thus my move to British-Columbia. As the province announced an investigation into B.C.’s 2017 wildfires, I came...
NASA image of the West Coast showing smoke obliterating Vancouver

B.C. roasts thanks to bad forest policy and climate change

A century of aggressive forest fire suppression, accelerating climate change fueled by burning fracked gas and oil and large population growth is leading to a human-created perfect firestorm.

Breathing B.C. wildfires

What it's like to breath the wildfires, where to find them, and a few more reasons to appreciate everything we have...