Sorry Canada, but winter has been cancelled. There’s just no snow. It’s the first time no snowfall has been recorded in the city of Toronto since record keeping began in 1845, reports The Canadian Press. Toronto normally averages 40 cm of snow in March – the previous low in the city was 1.2 cm in [...]

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Mongolia is suffering the worst winter most locals can ever remember. Aid agencies are calling it a ‘slowly unfolding disaster’ as record low temperatures continue to devastate nomadic herder communities, reports the BBC.
The government says over 4.5 million animals have died as a result of the extreme temperatures, sometimes dipping as low as -40oC. The [...]

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DOHA (AFP) – Atlantic bluefin tuna is in crisis and meets the criteria for a total ban on international trade, the head of the UN wildlife trade organization said this past Saturday in opening a 13-day meeting, reports the AFP.
Besides the sharply disputed proposal on bluefin, the Convention will debate the status of African elephants, [...]

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Job Opening: Project Lead for Alberta Climate Dialogue
Alberta Climate Dialogue (ABCD) is a new project to engage citizens and stakeholders in climate change planning and action at the municipal and also provincial levels, using tools of deliberative democracy. The Project Lead will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful launch and deployment of this innovative project, [...]

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ACT Executive Director Deborah Harford featured during living blogging at UBC Resilience Symposium:
(From the live blogging site)
Doborah Hartford, the Executive Director of the Simon Fraser University Adaptation to Climate Change Team pointed out that global warming has diverse and unpredictable effects on water cycles around the world, from flooding in the UK to severe droughts [...]

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Majority of Canadians consider water to be Canada’s most important natural resource – a new study reveals more people concerned about quality and availability of freshwater than oil, fisheries, or forests – yet use 329 liters per day.
The survey, in its second year, was commissioned by Unilever and RBC, and is endorsed by the Canadian [...]

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The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions is hosting a special seminar “Climate Security: What it Means and Why it Matters: Perspectives from the UK and the EU”. Presented by Dr. Sabrina Schulz, Climate Security Project Leader, British High Commission in Ottawa.
Friday April 9, 2010, 2:00 – 3:00 pm. Social Sciences and Math Building (SSM), Room [...]

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The Graduate Public Policy Program proudly presents:
“Canada’s Forest Products Sector: Carbon Neutral by 2015″ with Isabelle Des Chênes
Thursday March 18th 12:00 – 1:00pm in Harbour Centre room 3000
Canada’s pulp and paper forestry sector saw the writing on the wall more than a decade ago and began to seriously address climate change by streamlining and modernizing [...]

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Dr. John Clague will be presenting a special lecture for the SFU Faculty of Environment Lecture Series, March 4, “Increasing Risk from Natural Hazards in the 21st Century.”
Faculty of Environment Spring 2010 Lecture Series
presentation and discussion with Dr. John Clague
“Increasing Risk from Natural Hazards in the 21st Century.”
March 4, 11:00-12:00 p.m.
Halpern Centre Room 126
SFU Burnaby [...]

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Climate change: the unavoidable and immensely inconvenient truth.
“It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it,” writes Al Gore in an op-ed for the New York [...]

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